Dark Horse Comics has announced it will publish Blacksad: Somewhere Within the Shadows, the first volume of the award-winning hardboiled noir series by writer Juan Diaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido, as a single volume for the first time in over two decades. The 56-page hardcover will have an updated translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander and will be released on June 29, 2027, with an MSRP of $19.99.
Dark Horse also plans to publish the next two arcs, Blacksad: Arctic Nation and Blacksad: Red Soul, as single volumes.
Blacksad is published in France by Dargaud, and the first three volumes of the saga were initially published in English by the pioneering graphic novel publisher iBooks in 2003-2005. After the death of founder Byron Preiss (see “In Memoriam: Byron Preiss“), iBooks filed for bankruptcy and the books went out of print. Dark Horse published the first three volumes as a collected edition in 2010 and has continued to publish the series since then as both single volumes (the original French format) and collected editions (see “Awards-Drenched ‘Blacksad’ Story Collected in One Volume“). The series has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards; most recently, Blacksad: They All Fall Down, Part 2, won the 2026 Harvey Award for Best International Book.
Source: ICV2
