Juan Díaz Canales is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director, known as the co-creator of Blacksad.

At an early age, Juan Díaz Canales became interested in comics and their creation, which progressed and broadened out to include animated films.

During this period he met Juanjo Guarnido, with whom Canales decided to create comics based around a private investigator, Blacksad.

It was once again a great success, winning the Angoulême Audience Award and the Festival Prize for Artwork in 2004.

[2] In 2015, he and artist Rubén Pellejero were chosen by Patrizia Zanotti, in charge of the copyrights to Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese series, to publish a new album.