Far Out is a robot western graphic novel by Montreal-based author Gautier Langevin and designer Olivier Carpentier. You can read it online, and here’s an interview with Langevin that’s a good overview of the inspiration and concept. My favorite bit: “Machines are becoming more and more human, human more and more machine, and as of culture, what else it is but a very powerful technology helping mankind to thrive throughout the tragic wheel of time?”

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