Jackie Urbanovic

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Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling [1] author and illustrator. The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series. [2] She regularly speaks at libraries and at other educational events for children. She is a member of the Children's Book Guild. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work. [3]

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Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. [4] Her career started in graphic design and illustration, but realized she would prefer to illustrate children's literature. She studied writing under the mentorship of author Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to "Highlights" magazine, received her first trade illustration job on Spaghetti Eddie. [5] Before she started her children's literature career, she contributed to several anthologies and comics series regarding LGBT themes and issues in the 1980s and 1990s. [6] She is also credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the Molesworth Institute, [7] a source of library humor and information.

Bibliography

Books

Source: [8]

Self-authored and illustrated

  • Do Your Ears Hang Low? (Sing and Read Storybook). Scholastic, 2005. ISBN   978-0439733533
  • Duck at the Door. HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN   978-0061214400
  • Duck Soup. HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN   978-0061214417
  • Duck and Cover. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN   978-0061214448
  • Sitting Duck. HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN   978-0061765834
  • Ducks in a Row. HarperCollins, 2011. ISBN   978-0061864377
  • Happy Go Ducky. HarperCollins, 2012. ISBN   978-0061864391
  • Prince of a Frog. Orchard Books, 2015. ISBN   9780545636520
  • Splatypus. Two Lions, 2017. ISBN   978-1503939202

Illustrated

Contributions

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References

  1. ↑ "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, March 9th 2008". query.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ↑ "Jackie Urbanovic - best-selling Max the Duck Series... Duck and Cover, Duck Soup, Duck at the Door and more!". jackieurbanovic.com. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  3. ↑ "Jackie Urbanovic | R. MICHELSON GALLERIES". www.rmichelson.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  4. ↑ Urbanovic, Jackie. "JACKIE URBANOVIC". Children's Book Guild.
  5. ↑ "An interview with Jackie Urbanovic". WriteAngles Conference. 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  6. ↑ "Grand Comics Database". www.comics.org. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  7. ↑ Stevens, Norman D. (2006-01-01). "The Fully Electronic Academic Library®". College & Research Libraries. 67 (1): 5–14. doi: 10.5860/crl.67.1.5 . ISSN   2150-6701.
  8. ↑ "Books by Jackie Urbanovic". jackieurbanovic.com. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
  9. ↑ Urbanovic, Jackie (1983). "A Word From Our Sponsor...". Gay Comix. 4: 17–18.
  10. ↑ Urbanovic, Jackie (1987). "Losers in Love". Wimmen's Comix. 14.
  11. ↑ Robbins, Trina; Sienkiewicz, Bill; Triptow, Robert (1988). Strip AIDS USA : a collection of cartoon art to benefit people with AIDS . Last Gasp. ISBN   0867193735. OCLC   50386336.
  12. ↑ Robbins, Trina. (1990). Choices : a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women. Angry Isis Press. OCLC   608139189.
  13. ↑ Warren, Roz (1995). Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. Cleis Press. ISBN   978-1573440080.
  14. ↑ Warren, Rosalind, 1954- (1999). Men are from Detroit, women are from Paris . Hysteria Publications. ISBN   1887166513. OCLC   41630898.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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