Western comic

The comic side of my project has been neglected a bit on this blog mainly due to it being a background thing. Something I work on during lapses in my style project. 

I've been doing a western style genre for my comics story. I chose a western because I find western films and such very visually interesting. Think any Classic Clint Eastwood film. A problem with this approach however is being constricted by the classic setting and iconography of the western as well as trying to remain at least somewhat accurate to the time period/genre. I've come up with two approaches to combat this. The first was to soak in as much western genre media as possible, films, tv, comics etc. The second is that I'll give the western genre of my comic a twist, I'll set it in a sort of fictional world, so that I'm not tied down in what I want to draw or let the world be,it'll still predominantly be western though. 

This is similar to the first two western comics I can think of, East of West by Hickman and illustrated by Dragotta and the Dark Tower comic series adapted from the Stephen Kings books of the same name. Both of these take place in a sort of alternative future, semi apocalyptic earth and are more heavily influenced in terms of western elements than westerns themselves. Makes sense as the western did get a bit stale and boring after the 70s.