Diana: My Graphic Obsession
By Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth
PUBLICATION DATE: June 2023
6” X 9”
148 PAGES
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ISBN: 9781951491222
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What People Are Saying
“An extraordinary work of comics portraiture, rendered in elegant linework and overflowing with rich intertextual detail. Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is an essential new cartooning voice. His emerging oeuvre is my new graphic obsession.”—Jason Adam Katzenstein, author of Everything is an Emergency
“Mesmerizing, fascinating, and beguiling, this is a book that will draw you in completely. Like Diana herself, this book is a treasure.”—Emma Grove, author of The Third Person
“A keenly self-aware and compassionate look at Princess Diana, blending biography and memoir in this deeply personal and fascinating book.” —Ashley Robin Franklin, author of That Full Moon Feeling
“A multifaceted exploration of queer identities through several unexpected and wholly novel lenses, Diana telescopes in scale from the level of heartbreaking detail out to the sweep of history and myth, all the while tethered to the poignant and personal.” —Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
“A celebration of subversion, this finely rendered graphic novel uncovers fascinating depths at the intersection of gender, expectations, and transgression.” —Morgan Boecher, author of What's Normal Anyway
Synopsis
A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in the LGBTQ community and beyond.
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is obsessed with Princess Diana, in the specific, laser-focused way an autistic person can be. This book is an unorthodox biography of Diana Spencer told through a particular autistic and transmasculine lens, examining issues of identity and self-determination, and the mythological parallels in the lives of the royal family and the author.
About the Author
Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he studied art and English literature. He has published cartoons in The New Yorker among other places. Having spent a year working as a teacher in a Jewish day school, Sivan is now a Rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. This is his debut graphic novel.
