Dull Margaret
Author | : Jim Broadbent |
Publisher | : Fantagraphics Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781683960980 |
ISBN-13 | : 168396098X |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Inspired by Dulle Griet (aka “Mad Meg"), Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 16th-century painting of a “strong, intense woman striding determinedly across a violent landscape," Dull Margaret is the first graphic novel by Academy Award winning-actor Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and artist Dix (perhaps best known for his Roll Up! Roll Up! comics in the Guardian newspaper). The Dulle Grietpainting shows a breastplated woman with a sword in one hand in front of the mouth of hell, and Broadbent uses that single, vivid image as a launching point to explore what the rest of Dull Margaret’s bleak existence may have been like.