i really don't see a lot of difference from estern and western works in this time and age, not only in comic/manga but even in illustrations (i see moebius more as an illustrator)
You should take a look at his Lieutenant Blueberry stuff, it's pure comics. Also a bit of an inkgasm, same with The Detour which I linked to a page of above.
a lot of actual manga are more like underground european works than like their roots (especially maruo, who seems to have influenced the rest of the world more than his nation), and there are american hero comic who try to copy manga w/o any shame and lose their identity
Yeah, I hate that whole self-conscious pseudo-manga stuff that western comics often fall into. Adam Warren did a "nice try" with his Dirty Pair comics, although I still don't like them at all. He at least came a lot closer than most.