Texas Cowboys #2

Texas Cowboys 2 is a handsome anthology collecting what Dupuis bills as the best Wild West stories around, brought together by Bonhomme and Trondheim. The cover sets the mood beautifully — a mustachioed gunslinger and a sharp-eyed blonde woman stand front and center with hands raised, framed by vignettes of riders on horseback across red canyon country and a packed, rowdy saloon scene below. If you have any affection for the frontier genre rendered in clean, expressive ligne claire, this 2014 volume makes a compelling case for European comics' take on the American West.