Nicki Greenberg

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Nicki Greenberg
Born (1974-10-06) October 6, 1974 (age 46)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forComics artist, Illustrator
Notable work
The Great Gatsby: a graphic novel adaptation
Websitenickigreenberg.com

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

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)[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.

See also[]

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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. ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
  5. ^ The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
  6. ^ http://www.nickigreenberg.com/nicki.shtml
  7. ^ Greenberg, Nicki (26 August 2010). "Hamlet: William Shakespeare's Hamlet staged on the page". Allen & Unwin – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  8. ^ Woodhead, Cameron (29 October 2010). "Hamlet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
  10. ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
  11. ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
  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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