Exclusive Boom! preview: Cartoon animals go to prison in Kennel Block Blues
Cartoon animal comics have been making a big comeback over the past year, with both The Autumnlands and The Humans ending up on The A.V. Club’s Best of Comics 2015 list by using anthropomorphized animals to tell intense, mature narratives. The new Boom! series Kennel Block Blues continues that trend by casting cartoon dogs, cats, and rabbits as inmates in a prison drama, and this sneak preview of the first issue (running in the back of this week’s new Boom! releases) highlights a contrast of light and dark elements as it shows new inmate Oliver’s introduction to the Jackson State Kennel.