Peplum Meredith McClaren after all — especially the

after all — especially the ones with amazing butts

big-foot cartooning and brilliant use of color with his innate grasp of printing

Fante Bukowski stands as a commentary on hordes of recognition-hungry artists with nothing to say

It scales as big as the threat of nuclear annihilation

Peplum Meredith McClaren after all — especially theBy Blutch. Published by New York Review Comics. Softcover, 160 pages, 2016. The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics, and Peplum may be his masterpiece: 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