Acclaimed creators Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido current the long-awaited return of hardboiled feline P.I. John Blacksad in a brand-new, two-part storyline. Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Half One can be revealed in English by Darkish Horse in July 2022, following its preliminary publication by Dargaud and Europe Comics in 2021—the French version of which has been nominated for the Angoulême Grand Prix award. Translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander, and lettered by Tom Orzechowski and Lois Athena Buhalis, Darkish Horse is proud to current this noir masterpiece to North American audiences—the primary new Blacksad quantity in seven years.
In Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Half One, Detective Blacksad offers with the mob, the unions, and mid-century “grasp builder” Lewis Solomon, who plans to pave over New York Metropolis’s inexperienced areas, come hell or excessive water. Whereas Blacksad should navigate from the lofty world of Nineteen Fifties theater all the best way to town’s seedy depths, Solomon looms above all of it in pursuit of his personal goals—however is the price too excessive? In the meantime, Weekly finds himself within the scorching seat simply as an outdated flame comes again to burn his pal Blacksad!
Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Half One can be revealed in hardcover at a retail worth of $19.99. The guide arrives in comedian retailers on July 6, 2022, adopted by bookstores on July 19, 2022. It’s now obtainable to pre-order by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and your native comedian store.
Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Half One joins the beforehand revealed volumes of the beloved Blacksad sequence, together with Blacksad HC (gathering the primary three albums, Someplace Between the Shadows, Arctic Nation, and Pink Soul), Blacksad: A Silent Hell HC, and Blacksad: Amarillo HC.
Reward and Awards for Blacksad:
- Official Choice of the Angoulême Worldwide Comics Competition 2022
- Eisner Award-winner: Finest Painter, Juanjo Guarnido (2011, 2013); Finest U.S. Version of Worldwide Materials (2013, 2015)
- Angoulême Prize-winner: Prize for Paintings (2004); Prize for a Collection (2006)
- Worldwide bestseller, now translated for 39 totally different nations
“Grade A. Feels just like the unearthed film-noir storyboards of a grasp.” –Leisure Weekly
“A tour de power! Don’t miss this!” –Neal Adams
“Pretty much as good because it will get!” –Stan Lee
“Sensible artwork and an uncommon show of anthropomorphic realism.” –Will Eisner
“The artwork is lush and vibrant and loaded with particulars and specificity … Blacksad is an exquisite crime comedian with an fascinating tackle the hard-boiled P.I. story … a pleasant addition to any crime reader’s shelf.” –Spinetingler Journal