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| Blacksad | |
|---|---|
 Cover of Blacksad: Volume 1: Somewhere Within the Shadows | |
| Author(s) | Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido |
| Website | http://www.blacksadmania.com/ |
| Launch date | November 2000 |
| Publisher(s) | Dargaud |
| Genre(s) | Detective |
Blacksad is a noir comic series created by Spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist), and published by French publisher Dargaud in album format. Though both authors are Spanish, their main target audience for Blacksad is the French market[1] and thus they publish all Blacksad volumes in French first; the Spanish edition usually follows about one month later.[2] The first volume, Quelque part entre les ombres (literally Somewhere between the Shadows, but simply called Blacksad in the US), was published in November 2000. The second volume, Arctic-Nation, was published in 2003 and the third, Âme Rouge (Red Soul), was published in 2005. An English translation of the third volume was delayed due to the bankruptcy of its North American publisher, iBooks. In 2010, Dark Horse Comics published all three translated volumes as one volume.[3] The publication of this 184-page collection also coincided with the European release of the series' fourth installment, L'Enfer, le silence (literally The Hell, the silence), in September 2010. In 2014, a fifth installment of the series, Amarillo, was released in various translations.
The series has been translated from the original French and Spanish into Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Guarnido and Díaz Canales have received several prizes for the series, including three Eisner Award nominations in 2004,[4] two Eisner Award wins in 2013,[5] and an Angoulême Prize for Artwork.[6][7] A video game adaptation of Blacksad, under the name Blacksad: Under the Skin, developed by the Spanish company Pendulo Studios, was released in 2019.[8]
- ^ "Entrevista a Juan Díaz Canales, Guionista de Blacksad". Norma Editorial. Archived from the original on 1 January 2006.
- ^ "Overview of Blacksad". Guiadelcomic.com. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ "Eagerly awaited: BLACKSAD coming from Dark Horse". Publishers Weekly. 6 August 2009. Archived from the original on 11 August 2009. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ Sauriol, Patrick (8 April 2004). "2004 Eisner Award nominees announced". Mania.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ "Dark Horse Rocks EISNERS With Five Wins!" (Press release). Dark Horse Comics. 24 July 2013.
- ^ "Angoulême International Comics Festival – Prize for Artwork". Toutenbd.com. 20 February 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ "Sierre International Comics Festival – Prix de la Découverte". Archived from the original on 9 May 2005. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
- ^ "Blacksad: Under the Skin". Microids. Retrieved 13 February 2020.