Cheval Noir (French translation of Black Horse) was a black-and-white anthology comic book published between 1989 and 1994 by Dark Horse Comics. First edited by Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson, Cheval Noir aimed to showcase the best work by international creators to the English-speaking audience.^[1]

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Cheval Noir
The cover to Cheval Noir #26 (1992). Art by Moebius.
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	December 1989 – January 1994
No. of issues	50
Editor(s)	Mike Richardson, Barbara Kesel, Anina Bennett, Jennie Bricker

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During its 50 issue run, Cheval Noir was published in a variety of formats ranging from the standard 32-pages to giant-sized 72-page issues. The first 23 issues were edited by Mike Richardson,^[2] then the role was taken over by Barbara Kesel^[3] and later by Anina Bennett and Jennie Bricker.

Besides many stand-alone short comics, the anthology featured chapters from Jacques Tardi's The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World, an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War by Marvano, Andreas' Rork, Masashi Tanaka's Demon, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters' Cities of the Fantastic, Jean-Michel Charlier and Moebius' Blueberry.