Nicki Greenberg
Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist and illustrator.
Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation)[1] was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada.[2][3] Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet[4] was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010.[5]
Greenberg had early success when in 1990, at the age of fifteen, she published The Digits, a series of twelve books featuring her fingerprints as characters. She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including Squids Suck (2005),[6] Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank (2006),[7] and Operation Weasel Ball (2007).[8] 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.[9] She has been interviewed by The New Yorker in its on-line cartoon forum, by Jennifer Byrne on ABC1 television and The Book Show on ABC radio.
References
- ↑ The great Gatsby : a graphic adaptation / by Nicki Greenberg of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. - Version details - Trove
- ↑ The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
- ↑ http://www.nickigreenberg.com/nicki.shtml
- ↑ Hamlet : William Shakespeare's Hamlet staged on the page / Nicki Greenberg | National Library of Australia
- ↑ Hamlet: William Shakespeare's Hamlet staged on the page Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2010)
- ↑ Squids suck / Nicki Greenberg ; pictures by Nicki Greenberg. - Version details - Trove
- ↑ Antonia Cutlass walks the plank / written and illustrated by Nicki Greenberg. - Version details - Trove
- ↑ Operation weasel ball / Nicki Greenberg. - Version details - Trove
- ↑ Bird, plane or supermensch? Comics reveal Jewish roots - Arts - Entertainment