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Nicki Greenberg | |
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| Born | 6 October 1974 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Comics artist, Illustrator |
| Notable work | The Great Gatsby: a graphic novel adaptation |
| Website | nickigreenberg |
Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist and illustrator. [1]
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]
Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation) [4] was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada. [5] [6] Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet [7] was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010. [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.
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