num_pages: 114
description: The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics and Peplum may be his a grand strange dream of ancient Rome. At the edge of the empire a gang of bandits discovers the body of a beautiful woman in a cave; she is encased in ice but may still be alive. One of the bandits bearing a stolen name and with the frozen maiden in tow makes his way toward Romeseeking power or maybe just survival as the world unravels.Thrilling and hallucinatory vast in scope yet unnervingly intimate Peplum weaves together threads from Shakespeare and the Satyricon along with Blutchs own distinctive vision. His hypnotic storytelling and stark gorgeous art pull us into one of the great works of graphic literature translated into English for the first time.This NYRC edition features new English hand-lettering and is an oversized paperback with French flaps and extra-thick paper.
language: French
title: Péplum
publisher: Editions Cornélius