Nicki Greenberg

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

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

Nicki is a frequent presenter at schools, festivals and conferences, where her speaking style is described as passionate, engaging and full of energy.[2]

Nicki now dedicates most of her ink to books for younger readers. Her favorite activity is making books, but when she does manage to tear herself away from the desk Nicki loves to crochet bizarre sea creatures.[3]

Early life

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Greenberg had early success when in 1990, at the age of fifteen, she published The Digits,[4] a series of twelve books featuring her fingerprints as characters. The books sold over 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.[5]

Career

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Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation)[6] was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada.[7][8] Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet[9] was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010.[10]

She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including Squids Suck (2005),[11] Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank (2006),[12] and Operation Weasel Ball (2007).[13] 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.[14] She has been interviewed by The New Yorker[15] 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

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