Jackie Urbanovic

Jackie Urbanovic
Occupation	Author illustrator
Education	Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA)
Website
jackieurbanovic.com

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 educational events for children. She was a member of the Children's Book Guild. ^[3] She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work. ^[4]

Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. ^[3] Her career started in graphic design and cartoons, then realizing she would prefer to illustrate children's literature. ^[5] She studied writing under the mentorship of Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to Highlights , 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 has been credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the fictional Molesworth Institute. ^[7]

Published works

Books

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

• Do the Hokey Pokey. Cricket Books, 2001. ISBN   978-0812626995
• Horace the Horrible. Marshall Cavendish Corp, 2003. ISBN   978-0761451099
• The Ten Best Things About My Dad. Cartwheel, 2004. ISBN   978-0439577694
• Bully Blockers Club. Albert Whitman & Company, 2004. ISBN   978-0807509197
• Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip. Albert Whitman & Company, 2005. ISBN   978-0807530238
• Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal. Magination Press, 2005. ISBN   9781591472407
• Glamsters. Hyperion Book CH, 2008. ISBN   1423111486
• Spaghetti Eddie. Boyds Mills Press, 2009. ISBN   978-1590787786
• No Sleep for the Sheep! HMH Books for Young Readers, 2011. ISBN   978-0152049690
• If You're Hoppy. Greenwillow Books, 2011. ISBN   978-0061566349
• I've Lost My Hippopotamus. Greenwillow Books, 2012. ISBN   978-0062014573
• King of the Zoo. Orchard Books, 2013. ISBN   978-0545461825
• I Want Your Smile, Crocodile. Zonderkidz, 2018. ISBN   978-0310758907

Other published contributions

• Gay Comix #4, "A Word From Our Sponsor..." ^[8]
• Wimmen's Comix #14, "Losers in Love" ^[9]
• Strip AIDS U.S.A. ^[10]
• Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization of Women ^[11]
• Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Z ^[12]
• Men Are From Detroit, Women Are From Paris ^[13]

References

1. "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, March 9th 2008". The New York Times. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
2. "Books". Jackie Urbanovic. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
3. "JACKIE URBANOVIC". Children's Book Guild. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15.
4. "Jackie Urbanovic". R. MICHELSON GALLERIES. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
5. Hoffman, Samantha (2016-10-14). "An interview with Jackie Urbanovic". WriteAngles Conference.
6. "jackie urbanovic". Grand Comics Database. 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. Urbanovic, Jackie (1983). "A Word From Our Sponsor...". Gay Comix. 4: 17–18.
9. Urbanovic, Jackie (1987). "Losers in Love". Wimmen's Comix. 14.
10. 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.
11. Robbins, Trina. (1990). Choices : a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women. Angry Isis Press. OCLC   608139189.
12. Warren, Roz (1995). Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. Cleis Press. ISBN   978-1573440080.
13. Warren, Rosalind, ed. (1999). Men Are From Detroit, Women Are From Paris . Naperville, Illinois: Hysteria Publications. ISBN   1887166513. OCLC   41630898.

External links

• Official website