Diorama Books
We’re a small-press publisher committed to making literary fiction, non-fiction, and comics where the beauty of creativity and a theologically rooted sense of wonder come to play together. Here’s our launch video.
Founded by two friends with a shared love of sci-fi, art films, and the richness of childhood, Diorama Books aims to be a quiet place, cloistered away from the noise of the contemporary world, where we can be still, feel wonder, and quietly delight.
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Diorama Books
We’re a small-press publisher committed to making literary fiction, non-fiction, and comics where the beauty of creativity and a theologically rooted sense of wonder come to play together. Here’s our launch video.
Founded by two friends with a shared love of sci-fi, art films, and the richness of childhood, Diorama Books aims to be a quiet place, cloistered away from the noise of the contemporary world, where we can be still, feel wonder, and quietly delight.
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Thousand Oaks
by Pip Craighead & Ashton Trujillo
An atmospheric short story evoking the summer of 1988. Writer Pip Craighead and illustrator Ashton Trujillo take you into the heart of a sprawling American suburb as unforeseen events change the life of one family...
This book is intentionally only available in printed form, not digitally, and has an accompanying original soundtrack — so you can listen as you read along.
Language: English
Genre: Illustrated Novella
Length: 20 pages
Format: Print Only
Price: $5
Print Release Date: March 1, 2022
Buy a Print Copy
Listen to the Soundtrack
Genre: Illustrated Novella
Length: 20 pages
Format: Print Only
Price: $5
Print Release Date: March 1, 2022
Buy a Print Copy
Listen to the Soundtrack
Thousand Oaks
by Pip Craighead & Ashton Trujillo
An atmospheric short story evoking the summer of 1988. Writer Pip Craighead and illustrator Ashton Trujillo take you into the heart of a sprawling American suburb as unforeseen events change the life of one family...
This book is intentionally only available in printed form, not digitally, and has an accompanying original soundtrack — so you can listen as you read along.
by Pip Craighead & Ashton Trujillo
An atmospheric short story evoking the summer of 1988. Writer Pip Craighead and illustrator Ashton Trujillo take you into the heart of a sprawling American suburb as unforeseen events change the life of one family...
This book is intentionally only available in printed form, not digitally, and has an accompanying original soundtrack — so you can listen as you read along.
Language: English
Genre: Illustrated Novella
Length: 20 pages
Format: Print Only
Print Release Date: March 1, 2022
Buy a Print Copy
Listen to the Soundtrack
Genre: Illustrated Novella
Length: 20 pages
Format: Print Only
Print Release Date: March 1, 2022
Buy a Print Copy
Listen to the Soundtrack
Lost World
by Ashton Trujillo
Wandering the vast space of a natural history museum exhibit hall, a man encounters dinosaurs and a land forgotten.
Language: English
Genre: Graphic Novella
Length: 26 pages
Format: Digital & Print
Price: $0
Digital Release Date: October 2, 2020
Print Release Date: January 24, 2021
Buy a Print Copy
Download a Free Digital Copy
Genre: Graphic Novella
Length: 26 pages
Format: Digital & Print
Price: $0
Digital Release Date: October 2, 2020
Print Release Date: January 24, 2021
Buy a Print Copy
Download a Free Digital Copy
Lost World
by Ashton Trujillo
Wandering the vast space of a natural history museum exhibit hall, a man encounters dinosaurs and a land forgotten.
by Ashton Trujillo
Wandering the vast space of a natural history museum exhibit hall, a man encounters dinosaurs and a land forgotten.
Language: English
Genre: Graphic Novella
Length: 26 pages
Format: Digital & Print
Digital Release Date: October 2, 2020
Print Release Date: January 24, 2021
Buy a Print Copy
Download a Free Digital Copy
Genre: Graphic Novella
Length: 26 pages
Format: Digital & Print
Digital Release Date: October 2, 2020
Print Release Date: January 24, 2021
Buy a Print Copy
Download a Free Digital Copy
Essay Comics
by Pip Craighead
A collection of short comics exploring a variety of different topics. From ruminations on the nature of human longing and the power of language, to the delight of a late-night diner or a well-made taco, these thoughts are compressed into a series of small vignettes resembling fragments from a midcentury comic strip.
Language: English
Genre: Graphic Literature/Comics
Length: 24 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: December 23, 2020
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Genre: Graphic Literature/Comics
Length: 24 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: December 23, 2020
Download Free Now
Essay Comics
by Pip Craighead
A collection of short comics exploring a variety of different topics. From ruminations on the nature of human longing and the power of language, to the delight of a late-night diner or a well-made taco, these thoughts are compressed into a series of small vignettes resembling fragments from a midcentury comic strip.
by Pip Craighead
A collection of short comics exploring a variety of different topics. From ruminations on the nature of human longing and the power of language, to the delight of a late-night diner or a well-made taco, these thoughts are compressed into a series of small vignettes resembling fragments from a midcentury comic strip.
Language: English
Genre: Graphic Literature/Comics
Length: 24 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: December 23, 2020
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Genre: Graphic Literature/Comics
Length: 24 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: December 23, 2020
Download Free Now
Selected Dioramas
by Pip Craighead
In this tapestry of illustrated tales, you will find underground caverns, starry skies, vast mountains, suburban daydreams, the future, the past, and beneath it all: a great submerged longing for the sublime.
Accessible and yet mysterious, open-hearted and yet strangely hidden, consider these thirty-six stories as museum displays to be traversed at a leisurely pace, each diorama representing a scene from the many worlds that lie within this vast world we inhabit.
Language: English
Genre: Illustrated Literary Fiction
Length: 51 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: October 2, 2020
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Genre: Illustrated Literary Fiction
Length: 51 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: October 2, 2020
Download Free Now
Selected Dioramas
by Pip Craighead
In this tapestry of illustrated tales, you will find underground caverns, starry skies, vast mountains, suburban daydreams, the future, the past, and beneath it all: a great submerged longing for the sublime.
Accessible and yet mysterious, open-hearted and yet strangely hidden, consider these thirty-six stories as museum displays to be traversed at a leisurely pace, each diorama representing a scene from the many worlds that lie within this vast world we inhabit.
by Pip Craighead
In this tapestry of illustrated tales, you will find underground caverns, starry skies, vast mountains, suburban daydreams, the future, the past, and beneath it all: a great submerged longing for the sublime.
Accessible and yet mysterious, open-hearted and yet strangely hidden, consider these thirty-six stories as museum displays to be traversed at a leisurely pace, each diorama representing a scene from the many worlds that lie within this vast world we inhabit.
Language: English
Genre: Illustrated Literary Fiction
Length: 51 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: October 2, 2020
Download Free Now
Genre: Illustrated Literary Fiction
Length: 51 pages
Format: Digital Only
Price: $0
Release Date: October 2, 2020
Download Free Now