Quelque part entre les ombres 01

"Some mornings, it's hard to digest your breakfast. Especially if you find yourself facing the corpse of a former love." From the very first panel, the tone is set. We are in a noir story. With the usual ingredients: a murder, a large American city gnawed from the inside, a beautiful doll badly damaged. Up to the private detective - a cat named Blacksad - who contemplates, disillusioned, the agitation of the big city by slightly lifting the blind. In short, classic, we say. It's half true. The plot remains in the great tradition of film noir. But the graphics hit us like a nasty uppercut around a dark alley. Juanjo Guarnido, a Spanish cartoonist, signs his first comic book here. It's a masterstroke. He has an amazing sense of framing and movement. Simply put, you'd think you were at the movies. No wonder: he is an animator at the Disney studios, in the Paris suburbs... A first album in the form of a revelation. More, quickly...