Fat Princess Petronia
Katharina Greve
The whole universe worships the Little Prince, who sees everything ‚with his heart’ – but no one pays any attention to his cousin, Fat Princess Petronia. In contrast to the angelic blond boy, she’s sullen and completely unsentimental. She just doesn’t fit the princess cliché at all: She hates pink frills and loves maths. Naturally, the Little Prince has a huge planet while Petronia is stuck on probably the tiniest and most boring planet in the whole wide universe. With the help of multi-purpose worm Mirco, she tries to pep up her dismal life by travelling the cosmos by wormhole or by attempting to meet David Bowie – usually without success. Petronia’s absurd and funny adventures draw on the themes of The Little Prince, fairy tales, science fiction and the classics like Faust. The imagery is also packed full of allusions: Sometimes the art looks like advertising, sometimes like a board game or even like a modelling sheet. Greve’s space comic skilfully parodies various science fiction classics such as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Trek, Alien and the notion of parallel worlds in the multi-verse. Greve succeeds in depicting her title character’s emotional world with just a few strokes. Holger Moose Goethe Institut
Series Release Extent Binding Illustrations ISBN Price
Life Oct 2021 UK / Jan 2022 US 104 pp; 189 x 238 mm HC full-colour 978-1-912278-37-4 17 GBP / 24 USD / 21 EUR Title list
