Unlucky when it comes to love, his relationships never seem to last for reasons often outside of his control.īlacksad spent much of his childhood in a poor neighborhood and running from the police. He is quick-witted and stubborn, allowing him to survive the many scrapes he finds himself in, with some help from his proficiency in marksmanship and physical combat. Despite his dreary surroundings, he is rarely, if ever, cold, and takes great personal risks to protect others. He often wears a dark green suit with a white undershirt, a red-and-gold striped tie, and a brown trench coat.īlacksad, like many of his private eye peers, is clever, if cynical, with a strong independent sense of justice.

Around his muzzle is a white patch of fur, and long, white whiskers. He has large green eyes and primarily black fur. Blackmore on several fake IDs (debt collector, FBI agent, and customs officer).īlacksad is a tall, broad-shouldered man in his late thirties. He is known to frequently use the alias John H. He is a World War II veteran, making him an above-average marksman and proficient in hand-to-hand combatant. He is a black cat detective who also undertakes the job of a bodyguard for rich and important celebrities when he is in short of money. Private Investigator John Blacksad is the titular protagonist and narrator of the Blacksad comic series and its spinoff, Blacksad: Under the Skin. Not because of all the reigning disorder, but because it all seems to be the remains of that civilized person I used to be.' 'Sometimes, when I walk into my office, I get the feeling that I'm walking among the ruins of a lost civilization. Natalia Willford (deceased ex-girlfriend)īarry Johnson (English), Jeremie Covillault (French).Combining anthropomorphic hardboiled detective stories with some of the most gorgeous artwork in contemporary comics, its easy to see why.ĭark Horse publishes Blacksad in the US, but we’ll probably have a wait a bit for Amarillo to be translated. Written by Juan Díaz Canales with art by Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad can probably be said to be one of Europe’s one of popular and acclaimed comics, and its recent Eisner wins show it’s pretty acclaimed here, too. But the south roads are as dusty as they are unpredictable, and Blacksad unwittingly finds himself driving from one end of the US to another, in order to solve a murder involving biker parades, lawyers, writers and even a bloody circus!’ Luck seems to smile on him when a stranger hires him to deliver his car, a brand new Cadillac Eldorado model, from New Orleans to Tulsa. ‘John Blacksad is tired of all the violence and misery around him, so he decides to take his time before returning home. Zainab gave a rough translation of the blurb: It’s called AMARILLO and it has obvious allusions to the great American Coming Of Age Ritual: driving across the country in an ace vehicle. Our own Zainab Ahktar has scoped out the arrival of a new Blacksad book.

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