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Dull Margaret
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Publish Date: Jul 17th, 2018
- Pages: 150
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.20in - 7.30in - 0.70in - 1.40lb
- EAN: 9781683960980
- Recommended age: 16-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Historical Fiction - General
About the Author
Broadbent, Jim: - Jim Broadbent is one of his generation's most acclaimed actors, on stage or screen. He lives in England.
Dix: - 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.
Praise for this book
Greed is unquenchable in this bleak meditation on vengeance and desire by Dix and Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent. ... The ruthless, brutal Margaret proves a satisfying antiheroine for this vicious morality play.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Dull Margaret is a powerful read that's open enough to take multiple interpretations, with the space to grow over several rereadings. If you enjoy dark, literary graphic novels, Dix and Broadbent have dished up a treat.-- "Grovel"
Dull Margaret is a dark, vicious reimagining of 16th century peasant life with a remarkable main character.-- "Sequential State"
Enticing and loathly, this sorry soggy fable abounds with rich mordant humor and powerfully seductive sentiment, all compellingly realized by Dix's muted palette and amorphous, soft-edged designs.-- "Now Read This"
An intense incantation filtered through a fever dream.-- "The Beat"