Western Noir Meets Cormac McCarthy: Preview The Big Country From Peeples, Calero And Humanoids

Billed as a ‘Western-noir’, this new original graphic novel from writer and producer Quinton Peeples and artist Dennis Calero sees local sheriff, Grisson Callahan on the scent of a serial killer in their rural community. And, in trying to take down this new threat, he’ll no doubt uncover a few truths he may have wanted to leave buried.
Peeples, who has been writing, producing and directing for television for over 30 years, including Runaways and Iron Fist, explains his influences and more in an official statement:

The Big Country is a Western Noir story, a meditation on violence that has echoes of our current cultural discussions around toxic masculinity. I’ve taken noir tropes like crime, outsiders and loners and simply dragged them into the blazing sun instead of rain-drenched back streets. The fedoras have been replaced by Stetsons. But the soul of these characters, their complicated inner lives, is what keeps it in the family of Thompson, Ellroy and the name that looms large over everything: Cormac McCarthy

Check out the very noir preview below. The Big Country is out today from Humanoids

Set in the year 1978, The Big Country tells the story of Grissom Callahan, the last in a long line of sheriffs. Callahan learned everything he knows from his father and grandfather, but the ways of the old regime don’t prove effective when a violent serial killer emerges in their small town. In a single moment of shaking down an informant, Grissom triggers a chain of events that will reshape his life and the world of Texas law enforcement.