Nicki Greenberg

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Nicki Greenberg
Born (1974-10-06) 6 October 1974 (age 50)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known for Comics artist, Illustrator
Notable workThe Great Gatsby: a graphic novel adaptation
Website nickigreenberg.com

Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist and illustrator. [1]

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Early life

Greenberg had early success when in 1990, at the age of fifteen, she published The Digits, [2] a series of twelve books featuring her fingerprints as characters. The books sold over 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. [3]

Career

Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation) was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada. [4] [5] [6] Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010. [7] [8]

She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including Squids Suck (2005), [9] Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank (2006), [10] and Operation Weasel Ball (2007). [11] Greenberg is a regular contributor to the regular Australian comics anthology Tango , edited by Bernard Caleo and published by Cardigan Comics.

In 2009, Greenberg's work appeared in Super Heroes and Schlemiels: Jews and Comic Art, an exhibition of comic art at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne. [12] She has been interviewed by The New Yorker [13] in its on-line cartoon forum, by Jennifer Byrne on ABC1 television, and as part of The Book Show on ABC radio.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "nicki-greenberg". readingaustralia.com.au.
  2. ↑ Reading, Better. "Nicki Greenberg – Better Reading". www.betterreading.com.au. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Nicki Greenberg". Allen & Unwin Book Publishers. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. ↑ The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
  7. ↑ Greenberg, Nicki (26 August 2010). Hamlet: William Shakespeare's Hamlet staged on the page. Allen & Unwin. ISBN   9781741756425 – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  8. ↑ Woodhead, Cameron (29 October 2010). "Hamlet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  9. ↑ Greenberg, Nicki (2005), It's True! Squids Suck (13), Allen & Unwin, ISBN   978-1-74115-601-0
  10. ↑ Greenberg, Nicki (2006), Antonia Cutlass walks the plank, Pan Macmillan, ISBN   978-0-330-42269-7
  11. ↑ Greenberg, Nicki (2007), Operation weasel ball, Pan Macmillan, ISBN   978-0-330-42316-8
  12. ↑ "Bird, plane or supermensch? Comics reveal Jewish roots". The Age. 29 April 2009.
  13. ↑ Dernavich, Drew (16 December 2009). "Cartoon-Off: Nicki Greenberg". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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