The landscape of contemporary graphic literature is often crowded with "funny animal" noir—stories that utilize anthropomorphic characters to soften the blow of grim, hardboiled detective tropes. From the atmospheric, watercolor depths of Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Díaz Canales’s Blacksad to the cynical, gritty streets of Inspector Canardo,
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Hammurabi: Architect of Empire and Law in Ancient Mesopotamia
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