Unrelated but have you looked on Anna’s Archive? They have a bunch of Bande dessinée on there that may be what you're looking for.
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Yeah, I've looked everywhere but if you'd like to look yourself it's "Saint-elme" tome 5 (volume 5) by Lehmann and Peeters. All 4 first books are on Anna's and elsewhere but tome 5 was published fairly recently (January) and a French forum sharing bande dessinées has a "6 months rule" about sharing newly published works (honestly I don't understand why but who am I to discuss their rules) so it will be available at some point but since vol 5 is the last one, I want to read the end now.
Thanks anyway :)
make sure to upload it if you ever succeed
Do you know what format the comics come from Amazon (and if they actually have DRM)? I'm not sure if I've ever done it with comics but ebooks from Amazon usually worked well with DeDRM for Calibre:
https://github.com/nodrm/DeDRM_tools (hosting piracy stuff on Github 😘)
Last time I did it I had to use a Kindle app on Android to get the file which was kind of a hassle but it worked in the end.
If you get it into Calibre, you can just convert it to zip in Calibre, export the zip, remane the file ending to cbz, done.
Where do you want to buy it from? If it's some obscure shop that has its own encryption scheme, it may be hard to find any solutions. If it uses Adobe encryption, you can probably get away with using the DeDRM tools. Whether it's a PDF or EPUB, you should be able to extract the images. EPUB is easiest, since it's just a zip file, just like cbz. I've had de-DRMed EPUB files that I opened directly in a comic reader and they worked perfectly fine. The image file names were already sequential.
If it's some other scheme that hasn't been cracked yet, though, and you don't care about having the original files, I've had success using this method for automating screenshots. I think this is a great option if you just need "good enough" image quality to store something without DRM, as it will work on pretty much anything. And tbh, the image quality of digital comics isn't that great anyway.