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.