MeZolith reborn as a graphic novel
Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 Page Views: 6792
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A couple of years ago we reported on a cult comic called the DFC which featured a remarkable strip about prehistoric life called Mezolith. Now this is being published in hardback, annual style as a graphic novel. We will be reviewing it shortly but in the meantime, here is the author and storyteller Ben Haggarty's, take on it."MeZolith is the result of a unique collaboration between an illustrator, Adam Brockbank, and myself. We had long wanted to work together and the DFC presented us with an opportunity to create an exciting, full-blooded, Stone Age horror story for older children. It was conceived as a graphic novel that could be serialised in action filled, 5 page episodes."
Based on careful research, MeZolith is a conjectural reconstruction of the lives of a small tribal group, living about 10,000 years ago, on the western shores of the North Sea basin, (just above the long-flooded region which geographers have named Doggerland). We follow a dramatic year in the life of Poika, a boy on the cusp of adulthood. In order to show how mythology and metaphor might have played a part in the daily lives of our ancestors, we have enmeshed Poika’s adventures in a vivid matrix of fantastical stories, dreams and nightmares to the point where the borders between the real and the imagined world become blurred.
As work on MeZolith progressed it became clearer and clearer that a significant portion of the powerful folktales, fairytales and narrative motifs, which still haunt our subconscious today, are probably far, far more ancient than we realise. We found ourselves digging deeper and deeper into the very archaeology of the imagination.
Adam’s painting of MeZolith is rich and cinematic, so that every reader recognises the book as a window into the primal world of pre-insular Britain… and wants to go there.
MeZolith is published by David Fickling Books, RRP £9.99, currently on special offer at Amazon.co.uk
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