Nicki Greenberg
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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]
Early life
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "nicki-greenberg". readingaustralia.com.au.
- ^ Reading, Better. "Nicki Greenberg – Better Reading". www.betterreading.com.au. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ "Nicki Greenberg". Allen & Unwin Book Publishers. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au.
- ^ The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 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).
- ^ Woodhead, Cameron (29 October 2010). "Hamlet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Greenberg, Nicki (2005), It's True! Squids Suck (13), Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74115-601-0
- ^ Greenberg, Nicki (2006), Antonia Cutlass walks the plank, Pan Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-330-42269-7
- ^ Greenberg, Nicki (2007), Operation weasel ball, Pan Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-330-42316-8
- ^ "Bird, plane or supermensch? Comics reveal Jewish roots". The Age. 29 April 2009.
- ^ Dernavich, Drew (16 December 2009). "Cartoon-Off: Nicki Greenberg". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
External links
[edit]- Nicki Greenberg website via Internet Archive
- Nicki Greenberg at AustLit
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