Blacksad
Subtitle: A silent hell
By: [written by] Juan Díaz Canales ; [illustrated by] Juanjo Guarnido ; [translation by Katie LaBarbera and Diana Schutz ; lettering by Tom Orzechowski and Lois Buhalis]
Contributors: Guarnido, Juanjo, 1967-; LaBarbera, Katie; Schutz, Diana; Orzechowski, Tom; Buhalis, Lois
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milwaukie, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781595829313
Subjects: Missing persons; Private investigators; Translations into English; Nineteen fifties; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Silent hell; Dark Horse Books presents
Work titles: Blacksad. 4, L'enfer, le silence
Description: "Detective John Blacksad returns, with a new case that takes him to a 1950s New Orleans filled with hot jazz and cold-blooded murder! Hired to discover the fate of a celebrated pianist, Blacksad finds his most dangerous mystery yet in the midst of drugs, voodoo, the rollicking atmosphere of Mardi Gras, and the dark underbelly that it hides!" -- from publisher's web site.
Notes: Cover title.

Translation from the French of: Blacksad, 4, L'enfr, le silence.

"This book collects Blacksad 4: L'enfer, le silence; Blacksad: L'histoire des aquarelles, Tome 2; and the Blacksad short stories "Cracher au ciel" and "Comme chien et chat," orginally published in France"--T.p. verso.

Blacksad is a comic album series created by Spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist), and published by French publisher Dargaud. Though both authors are Spanish, their main target audience for Blacksad is the French market and thus they publish all Blacksad volumes in French first, the Spanish edition usually follows about one month later