Blacksad: Amarillo

In Blacksad: Amarillo, the celebrated European detective series continues its run at Dark Horse as writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido send the anthropomorphic feline private eye on a road trip through the American Southwest. This 2014 one-shot finds Blacksad hired to track down a missing beat poet, leading him into a sun-scorched mystery of art, obsession, and the seedy underbelly of 1950s Americana. With lush, painterly art by Guarnido and a taut noir script by Canales, the issue stands as a self-contained yet essential chapter in one of comics' most acclaimed detective sagas.