Dull Margaret Hardcover by Jim Broadbent

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2018-06-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 150 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683960980
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

The Academy-Award winning actor collaborated with a Guardian cartoonist to create a graphic novel inspired by the Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (1561) painting.

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 Griet painting 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.

About the Author

Jim Broadbent is one of his generation’s most acclaimed actors, on stage or screen. He lives in England.

Dix was born in Wales in 1967. He studied in London where he first drew comics for Crisis and later cofounded PURR. He moved back to Wales in 1995 where he drew strips for The Guardian newspaper for many years. He collaborated with Si Spencer on the graphic novel, Klaxon, in 2015 and with Jim Broadbent on Dull Margaret in 2018. The Idris File is his first solo graphic novel. He lives in Hay on Wye.