Ben Haggarty is a performance storyteller ( oral reteller of traditional tales) who has a lifelong interest in illustration which has lead him to collaborate with artists to produce comic strip versions of his tales. He wrote two strips for The DFC: "MeZolith", drawn by Adam Brockbank and later collected as a hardback book; and "Will Skoggin's Skull", drawn by John Welding and appearing in two issues. In 2012/13 he wrote "Silk Roads", an occasional feature in The Phoenix drawn by various artists and consisting of self-contained, folktale-influenced stories.
A second 96 page volume of MeZolith stories (made again in collaboration with Adam Brockbank) is complete and due to be published in Spring 2014.