Juan Díaz Canales
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Juan Díaz Canales (born in 1972 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director.
[edit] Biography
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. Guarnido and Canales contacted several editors and publishers before finally signing with Dargaud, a major comics piblisher in France. On November 1, 2000, Somewhere Within the Shadows, the first album (or graphic novel) of this series, was published. It was a strong success, both amongst critics and the public, and won 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. In March 2003 the second comic album, Arctic Nation, was released. It was once again a great success, winning the Audience Award and the Festival Prize for Artwork at the 2004 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The third album Red Soul was published in 2005.
[edit] Bibliography
- Blacksad (Dargaud, 2000-2003)
- Somewhere Within the Shadows (2000)
- Arctic Nation (2003)
- Red Soul (2005)
