He's also taken on the continuation of the adventures of Corto Maltese in collaboration with Ruben Pellejero. Since Blacksad, he's worked with numerous illustrators, including José Luis Munuera on his beautiful two-part series Fraternity (Dargaud, 2011). He now divides his time between his screenwriting for comics and animation, and supervising TV series and feature film animation. This got him started working with various European and U.S.
Meanwhile, Díaz Canales pursued studies in the fine arts, then, in 1996, founded a company called Tridente Animation with three other designers. But that didn't stop them coming up with one of this decade's greatest comic book projects, the future Blacksad (Dargaud 2000, Dark Horse, Europe Comics 2016), a massively successful 1950s style detective series. Juan remained in Spain while Juanjo went to France to work for the Disney animation studios. And that was that - he decided to make a profession out of it! At 18, he joined an animation studio, where he met Juanjo Guarnido, who soon became a great friend. He started reading comic books very early on, before getting interested in cartoons. Blacksad is a comics classic, and American readers are fortunate to have these first three in one volume.Juan Díaz Canales was born in 1972 in Madrid, Spain. All of this material is riveting, and Guarnido's artwork is atmospheric and full of indelibly captured characters-he's a true master of the form. This current edition collects the three graphic novels that have been released to date, the first being a standard (though beautifully executed) murder mystery, the second centering on the machinations of a white supremacist organization and those whose lives it has thrown into a very personal bedlam (perhaps the most affecting of the lot), and the third addressing the perceived threat of communism within the United States.
Writer Díaz and illustrator Guarnido take the detective noir genre and breathe new life into it with a trio of anthropomorphic animal gumshoe dramas centering around John Blacksad, a methodical PI who conducts his investigations in early 1950s America, a post-WWII society deals with upheavals involving racism and the "Red Scare." Within this atmosphere of ready-to-explode tension, the creators weave what can only be called narrative magic. First making waves a decade ago, Blacksad, created in Spain, published in France, has since garnered well-deserved critical success and status as an international bestseller.
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