The poets of the great banqueting hall entertained host and visitor with tales of long long before.
 
Grendel's dead at the hands of Beowulf. King Hrothgar hires a stand-up to tell a joke or two at  Beowulf's conquest celebration in Denmark. As it happens, Hrothgar's comic doubles as a poet on the festival circuit. A beerwolf poet making  loud disjunctives after a few jugs. A worthy entry to Viz comic's profanisaurus amplified by an avant-bardist mic (mike weller).
 
But MJ Weller's big draw Beowulf Cartoon isn't played for laughs.
 
Using a series of lays devised from 2,826 lines of Anglo-Saxon scriptoria - stress-fonted, graphically wrought, and blasted with visual alliterations - Weller's individual hoard has been scanned, conjured and breathed-upon for 1,200 years and more.
 
 
PDF on Writers Forum at the British Library