Fat Princess Petronia

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.

Author: Katharina Greve
Publisher: Centrala
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781912278374

About the Author
Katharina Greve, born 1972 in Hamburg, studied architecture at the Technical University, Berlin. An artist, writer, cartoonist and comic strip creator, she lives in Berlin. In addition to drawing cartoon and comic strips for Titanic, Das Magazin, Taz, Neues Deutschland, Der Tagesspiegel etc., Greve has published several graphic novels. In 2010, she received the ICOM Independent Comic Book Prize for Outstanding Artwork and the German Comic Strip Prize for New Talent for her comic book debut. In 2013, she predicted the retirement of Pope Benedict in a comic strip and won the Sondermann Förderpreis for Humorous Art. Her webcomic 'Das Hochhaus' was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for Best German-language Comic Strip at the International Comic Salon Erlangen. In 2019, Fat Princess Petronia appeared as a humorous satire of the 'Little Prince. '