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nas12 's review for:
Blacksad Integral
by Juan Díaz Canales
Noir, as black as a black cat. This series of graphic novels was really interesting because of the way it blended a genre like black noir with humanized animals; I wasn’t expecting it, but the thing it’s that it works and it works well.
I’ve really liked how the animals chosen for each character reflected so much about their personalities. Also how expressive the style was, border lining on cartoonish, but without losing elegance. The amount of details in each scene, and the beautiful tones and texture offered by the watercolor way of painting, truly elevated these graphic novels.
In an entertaining way, and through different cases connected by recurring characters, this series covers important subjects such as segregation, racism, the cold war, in between others; and I would say that those mentioned subjects are masterfully integrated into the cases that conduct each installment. It also reflects the important cultural movements of those decades and the joyful but also hard life of those times, using as its background beautiful places (greatly depicted through the art of the novel) like New Orleans.
Blacksad is the prototype of the noir detective: cool, morally ambiguous and determined; but I would say that I didn’t feel as detached from Blacksad as I tend to feel from the mentioned cliché detectives. Maybe it had to do with Blacksad being more than the expected; what more can I add, he is a really likeable character.
My only complaint with this series is that I wish it had more volumes, Blacksad is one of those detectives I want to keep reading about. This is definitely a series I would recommend.
I’ve really liked how the animals chosen for each character reflected so much about their personalities. Also how expressive the style was, border lining on cartoonish, but without losing elegance. The amount of details in each scene, and the beautiful tones and texture offered by the watercolor way of painting, truly elevated these graphic novels.
In an entertaining way, and through different cases connected by recurring characters, this series covers important subjects such as segregation, racism, the cold war, in between others; and I would say that those mentioned subjects are masterfully integrated into the cases that conduct each installment. It also reflects the important cultural movements of those decades and the joyful but also hard life of those times, using as its background beautiful places (greatly depicted through the art of the novel) like New Orleans.
Blacksad is the prototype of the noir detective: cool, morally ambiguous and determined; but I would say that I didn’t feel as detached from Blacksad as I tend to feel from the mentioned cliché detectives. Maybe it had to do with Blacksad being more than the expected; what more can I add, he is a really likeable character.
My only complaint with this series is that I wish it had more volumes, Blacksad is one of those detectives I want to keep reading about. This is definitely a series I would recommend.