Animal Noir

(Paperback)

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Anthropomorphic animals like you've never seen them before. It's Chinatown meets Animal Farm. Private Investigator (and giraffe), Immanuel Diamond--Manny to his friends--has been asked by his uncle, an influential judge, to track down a prey fantasy movie. Adult films in this world are staged hunts where one animal eats another and the judge's wife starred in one that has been hidden, until now. Giraffe detectives, hippo mob members, prey-obsessed lions, street fighting elephants, and oppressed zebras are just part of this wild animal kingdom.

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"Although there is a lot ofZootopiahere, there is even moreBlacksad.This is noir. It is dark and cynical. World-weary PIs with connections on both sides of the law handle matters too delicate for the official constabulary." ComicWow.tv

"It didnt take long to realize that this was actually a gritty crime story. The night scenes really emphasize this grittiness by using lots of darker colours and shading in the panels. The backgrounds offer some great details like torn movie posters, garbage, and graffiti to give the city a harsher look." Comics: The Gathering

Author Bio

Izar Lunacek is a Slovenian comic artist. He studied painting, comparative literature and philosophy ultimately translating these skills into comics. He's been publishing comics and comic strips in Slovenia since 1999, which have been produced and translated into Spanish and English. Nejc Juren is a Slovenian editor, translator, and writer. He graduated from law school at the University of Ljubljana. He is has translated works from Czech, including The Engineer of Human Souls, and from English into Slovenian, like Calvin & Hobbes. He also plays the washboard in Poceni skafi (aka Little Street Charmers), a New Orleans-style street swing band.