The Black Diamond Detective Agency - Tapa blanda

Review in January 15th 2007 issue of KirkusA visually stunning graphic narrative with all sorts of complicated plot twists.The latest from visual artist Campbell (The Fate of The Artist, 2006, etc) represents something of a show-business reversal. Where it has been commonplace for Hollywood to adapt graphic novels and comic book series into movies, this collaboration finds Campbell working from (or "inspired by") a screenplay by C. Gaby Mitchell. The result is a turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) pulp thriller concerning a railroad attack, domestic desertion, a series of double (or even triple) crosses by gangs and a conspiracy that ultimately reaches so high that the Black Diamond Detective Agency has no idea what it's really investigating. The complications have implications that reverberate a century later, but even those who have trouble following the plot will marvel at Campbell's visual detail, use of color (particularly an explosive red) and extensive stretches of wordless panels.The veteran artist rises to a new challenge.Review in May 1st 2007 issue of BooklistCampbell, who secured his hold on graphic-novel immortality in the Jack the Ripper epic "From Hell" (2000), created with writer Alan Moore, continues to produce an eclectic and arresting body of work. In this story of detection and revenge, based on a screenplay by C. Gaby Mitchell, he uses a pale palette to create a portrait of a turn-of-the-last-century America that is both thrilled by its technological innovation and terrified by the extreme changes that come with it. The Black Diamond Detective Agency, a fictional stand-in for the Pinkerton Agency, hunts down the culprits behind a lethal train bombing, even as a man in black with a more personal agenda seeks the same men. Cursing, brief nudity, and an implied sexual encounter suggest an older teen audience, who will best appreciate this complex visual experience that weaves in interesting historical supposition, such as the use of fore

The historic Black Diamond Detective Agency, soon to be the subject of a major motion picture, is renowned worldwide. But could they be wrong this time? John Hardin is a desperate man. When a train carrying official US Diamond Detective Agency's sole suspect. John is innocent, but his wife is missing, his old friends are coming back to haunt him - with guns and explosives - and he's on the run through rural Missouri. "The Black Diamond Detective Agency" is based on the historical journals of Arthur James Quindlen, the agency's founder. Adapted and illustrated with watercolor art by Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel brings a new perspective to that time in America when small farmers were the backbone of the country, graft was rampant, and railroads thundered through western towns.