Blacksad is a comic book series written by Spanish author Juan Díaz Canales and illustrated by Juanjo Guarnido in November 2000 firstly aiming the French audience with the title Somewhere Between the Shadows before U.S release title Blacksad.
Although it was the creators' first comic book, the first volume was an immense success, selling more than 200,000 copies in France alone.
The story is set in a film noir environment with completely antropomorphic animal characters. Species are given specific characteristics such as policeman which are drawn as German Shepherds, Scottish Terriers and foxes.
The main character is a black cat named Blacksad who is a typical private investigator wearing a dark green suit, a red stripped tie and a trench coat in the U.S.A of the late 1950s. He often gets into trouble while trying to solve a case before revealing the shocking truth, as in a typical detective story, however the dirty realist outlook of the human like animals in darkly cinematic style makes Blacksad a worth reading comic album.
