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.

Inspirat de Dulle Griet (alias „Meg Meg”), pictura din secolul al XVI-lea a lui Pieter Bruegel the Elder a unei „femei puternice, intense care strabate hotarat un peisaj violent”, Dull Margaret este primul roman grafic al actorului Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) si artistul Dix (probabil cel mai bine cunoscut pentru Roll Up!