Dull margaret, hardcover/jim broadbent

Inspired by Dulle Griet (aka Mad Meg), Pieter Bruegel the Elders 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 UpRoll Upcomics 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 Margarets bleak existence may have been like.