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Juan Díaz Canales

Juan Díaz Canales (1972- ) is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director. At an early age, Juan Díaz Canales became interested in comics and their creation, which progressed and broadened out to include animated films. At the age of 18, he entered a school for animation. In 1996 he founded, together with three other artists, a company called Tridente Animation. 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. During this period he met Juanjo Guarnido, with whom Canales decided to create comics based around a private investigator, Blacksad. After contacting several editors, Guarnido and Canales finally signed on with French publisher Dargaud, and in 2000, Quelque part entre les ombres (Somewhere within the Shadows) was published. It was a great success and was awarded several prices In 2003 the second album Arctic-Nation, was released. It was once again a great success and the same with the third instalment of the Blacksad series, Âme Rouge (Red Soul).

 

 
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