Can anybody recommend western comic/graphic novel that is in the vein of Leone/Peckinpah/Eastwood anti-westerns? Most of the western comics I've read are either more in the style of (literary and metaphorically) black and white classic westerns, or they're just cheap pulp, I'm looking for something more layered, like the movies from the mentioned authors.Bouncer by Jodorowsky & Boucq might be for your liking. Violent and spaghetti style western and since it's written by Jodorowsky there's depth in the story. And no, it's not a trippy western like El Topo.
i recommend El Diablo (4 issues) and Loveless (24 issues i think) by Brian Azzarello - great spaghetti stuff there
Thanks for the recommendations. I have Azzarello’s comics on my radar for some time, I’ll give them a try. Wasn’t aware of this Jodorowsky western, visually looks great.
I thought Loveless was terrible. Never liked anything ive read by Azzarello.
For good Spaghetti-style comics, you can’t beat the original Jonah Hex series, especially the later issues.
Also the more recent Jonah Hex series by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti is very good.
For something a bit less well known, the Doug Wildey’s RIO complete series hardback from IDW comics is great.
Bouncer looks great, also Son of the Gun looks good too
I’ll be sure to read these
Just finished the first volume of Bouncer - “Cain’s Eye” and really liked it. Pretty grim and violent, and very spaghetti-like with lots of standard genre elements. Felt like watching a spaghetti.
The 2005 Jonha Hex series before it rebooted to All Star Western are some of the best comics i have ever read western or not and very spaghetti western
I’ll second that recommendation for JONAH HEX. Those were darned good issues. Too bad they screwed the pooch with 52.
The new all Star western was not all bad, not as good as the old Jonah Hex series but had the same writers so Hex’s character is always the nasty bad ass bastard , and it’s ending at issue 34
Also :
A supernatural take on the old west, it’s being made into a TV series, any western fan would love this.
I read the first one (pic wouldn’t load so I couldn’t see the title 
) and I thought it was pretty cool. Up to volume 3 on The 6th Gun and really digging it! Didn’t know it was gonna be a tv show, any details?
Anyone else reading Southern Bastards?
Since my last post here, I’ve been reading some western comics: Ken Parker, Durango, El Diablo, Western… Most of them have some SW influences (Durango is 100% SW in comics, but not very original).
Ken Parker series by Berardi & Milazzo is very movie-like, authors are obviously huge fans of western cinema. Most characters are visually based on actors from famous westerns. Ken is based on Redford asJeremiah Johnson, and among episodic characters I’ve noticed Candice Bergen, Lee Marvin etc. SW influences are noticeable in action scenes, other than that it is moralistic adventure westerns, that is concerned with topics like ecology, racism etc. Recommended.
El Diablo one shot by Azzarello and Zezelj has familiar SW theme of character that is possibly ghost or a demon with unsettled score from the past. Danijel Zezelj has very specific visual style that relies on extensive use of contrast and huge black surfaces. Good little spag.
Western by Rosinski and Van Hamme has very little spaghettiness, but it is one of the best one-shot western comics I’ve read. It is nothing ground-breaking, but characters are developed, story is excellently paced and Grzegorz Rosinski’s artwork is absolutely stunning. In the hands of proper director it could be turned in a very good movie. Highly recommended.
I’ve also started reading W.E.S.T:, which is steampunked conspiracy teory story set in the Old West.
Next stop: Blueberry.
Yeah, but that’s what makes Durango fun. Even the faces are recognisable. The stories are actually pretty good.
Last week I bought ‘The Return of Al Crane’ by Alexis/Lauzier. The drawings are alright, but narrative is crap.
Ah, my favorite. Hopefully I can complete my collection some day, I’m still missing some of the older stuff.
There was also some discussion about some other italian western comics (and others) in this topic:
http://forum.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/topic,3841.msg157083.html#msg157083
If you understand Croatian, they were all reprinted here recently 
I have recently re-read Tardi’s WW1 graphic novels
and the 2nd one which is more of a narration than short vignettes
I have been really drawn the Great War lately as reading and watching about it makes you realize how shitty war is for everyone no matter which side you’re on. No one had it great and everyone suffers in war.
I’ve said it before but Tardi is my favorite comic book artist. I have only 13 books though because there’s no more translated to english or finnish. 120 rue de la gare is my favorite, great adaptation from Malet’s detective story.
Too bad that the Adele movie was such a disaster.
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It was good, and had some charm. More Indiana Jones than Tardi though. Besson should have skipped everything which was too tardiesque in favour of the Indiana stuff with some mummies and a saurian.