Peplum

"From the New York Review of Books’ new imprint, New York Review Comics, Peplum challenges and confounds with its unorthodox story and brutalist graphical style. French artist Blutch’s line work compels the use of physical descriptors: it seizes, forces, clutches and crams. His story, a tale of ancient Rome, is challenging too. Taking off from the 1st century work The Satyricon, he crams his pages with epic battles and agonized bodies. Blutch is celebrated in Europe, but this is only the second of his books to be translated into English."