It was once again a great success, winning the Angoulême Audience Award and the Festival Prize for Artwork in 2004. In March 2003 the second album Arctic-Nation, was released. It was a great success with both critics and the public, and was awarded the Prix de la Découverte at the Sierre International Comics Festival and the "Avenir" Prize at the Lys-lez-Lannoy Festival, in Switzerland and France respectively. After contacting several editors, Guarnido and Canales finally signed on with French publisher Dargaud, and in November 2000, Quelque part entre les ombres (Somewhere within the Shadows) was published. Through this, he has worked with European and American companies, providing plots and scripts for comics and animation films, as well as directing animated television series and animation movies.ĭuring this period he met Juanjo Guarnido, with whom Canales decided to create comics based around a private investigator, Blacksad. In 1996 he founded, together with three other artists, a company called Tridente Animation. At the age of 18, he entered a school for animation. Juan Díaz Canales is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director, known as the co-creator of Blacksad.Īt an early age, Juan Díaz Canales became interested in comics and their creation, which progressed and broadened out to include animated films.
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