Western comics

With publications like Tex Willer, Comanche, Lucky Luke, Lieutenant Blueberry, Ken Parker, Buddy Longway etc, how is this genre so dead on Sup Forums?

Also, lets talk about western comics.

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>how is this genre so dead on Sup Forums?

dude, look at the catalog, count the number of comics threads, there's like 10% comic books

this is a cartoon board now, barely any discussion of comics happens regardless of genre

that said, it would be nice if cowboy comics made a comeback

Iunno, the last time western comics were popular was in the 70's.

Those are all euro comics too aren’t they?

Western is a shitty genre for virgins. It has not produced one good work.

We had a Lucky Luke storytime two weeks ago

A fistful of reasons come to mind, though most of them are just my impressions. Firstly is the sheer difficulty of the genre as a whole. Like war comics, it requires a level of research, investigation and skill, both in writing and art, that makes it relatively inaccessible from a creator's point of view. You can't make a throwaway western as easily as you could a superhero, fantasy or soft sci-fi story. Even the most surreal, acid western comic would still need horses and six-shooters.
Then there's the sheer glut of western material that you have available already. The western has been imagined, reimagined, re-reimagined, deconstructed, reconstructed and overall dissected in so many ways over the years, finding a fresh take on it can feel daunting. Of course, there's nothing wrong with chasing quality over novelty, but it adds up.
And finally, there's the case of the audience just not being there anymore. Unless you've already cut your teeth in another genre and have a massive following, odds are you're not going to get people who aren't already western fans to read your western comic en masse.
That said, I am talking just from my experience, and I'm aware the genre is still relatively alive in France and Italy, though I admit I've only dipped my toes in some of Blueberry and Tex. So my perspective is a bit narrow and skewed.

It sure would.

>this is a cartoon board now
Sad, but true.

Yes, the only US western comic I know is Jonah Hex. And If I'm not mistaken, westerns as a genre might be more popular in Europe than in the US. I know they like Tex in South-America.

Back to the capeshit thread user.

Capeshit is for man children.

Far as US westerns go, Bat Lash (both the original and the modern miniseries), A Man Named Hawken, Blaze of Glory (and its sequel, Apache Skies) and Streets of Glory are all pretty good.
Preacher and Scout are also excellent stuff, though they're more modern/horror and post-apocalyptic western respectively. For more acid/surreal ones, Black Jack Ketchum, The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael and Pretty Deadly (dat Emma Rios art) are all interesting enough. And I fucking love me some Daisy Kutter.
John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake recently came back together to do a horror vampire story set in the American Civil War, Kros: Hallowed Ground. Good shit, though a bit light on story and maybe hard to find.

>Kros: Hallowed Ground

That looks good. Might take a while until I manage to get one on my hands though.
I've really grown to like the mystic/supernatural/horror stories of Tex Willer.

I apologize in advance for the lack of .cbr/.cbz, but if you want, here's the .pdf I got from backing it on KS: mediafire.com/file/1oes6i910ovqps1/Kros_Hallowed_Ground_GN_PDF.compressed.pdf

This is literally my favorite western comic

That's good enough.
Can always convert that to images by apps or websites, then a something like 7zip to make a zipfolder and then change that to cbz.

>Comanche, Lucky Luke, Lieutenant Blueberry, Ken Parker, Buddy Longway
Good taste, pard.

Thanks!

We are getting a new Blueberry. 9emeart.fr/post/news/franco-belge/joann-sfar-scenarisera-le-prochain-tome-de-blueberry-avec-christophe-blain-au-dessin-8009

DC has always been good to Jonah Hex

why is there so little pirate comics

Sadly the entire genre of 'Western' has fallen out of favor over the last couple of decades.
You get a good one now and then, but the era where it was such a driving force is long over.
But I really do need to read Blueberry at least.

I enjoyed Bouncer. I haven't really consumed the genre as a whole in a while. The first issue of Commanche was beautiful, but the story felt almost by the numbers. If I'm ambitious enough, I may take a shot at reviving Lobo.

All of those are not being owned by Marvel/DC and distributed through Diamond.

>reading "that magic shit was a hoax " Tex Willer when there's Magico Vento and Brendon

>>reading "that magic shit was a hoax " Tex Willer when there's Magico Vento and Brendon

Tex Willer is pure gold.

Read Blaster Knuckle

He looks too vanilla.

Bouncer is pretty good, but I always have trouble finding volume 5 so I've put off finishing it until I do.

>And If I'm not mistaken, westerns as a genre might be more popular in Europe than in the US
Weird, from what I've heard the market for western fine art in the US is pretty huge, I wonder why this wouldn't leak over into comics and literature.

The writing makes up for it