They are a couple of projects that came my way recently..."Weird Western" is kind of a subgenre of western, like how post-nuke is a subgenre of SF.
Generally to qualify as a "Weird Western", a supernatural, horror or SF element is introduced into a standard western setting
The Wild Wild West TV series is probably the most well-known example of a "Weird Western" which of course was a pervasive influence on Outlanders.
The Clint Eastwood movie, High Plains Drifterwould qualify as well as the Bruce Campbell cult classic, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The upcoming movie version of the comic series, Jonah Hex promises to be a major entry in the "Weird Western" subgenre.
The RPG Deadlands is a Weird Western, but more by way of the steampunkish The Wild Wild West.
I'm working on a couple of interconnected projects: Rio Diabloand Doc Tombstone.
Rio Diablo revolves around a wild border town that is equal parts Deadwood and Sin City. When maverick US Marshal Jim Gage is sent to Rio Diablo to impose a degree of law and order on it, he finds out the wickedness doesn't spring just from its human inhabitants.
The title character of Doc Tombstone is a gunfighter wrongly accused of murder--he's also accused of being one of the undead. That accusation might actually be true, but even he isn't sure.
Below are a couple of pieces of preliminary promotional art.
I'm also working on Gulliver of Mars: Beyond the War of the Worlds. It's a steampunk space-opera graphic novel, sort of a turn-of-the-century Star Trek, featuring the first space hero is literature--Gulliver Jones.
