Nicki Greenberg

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| caption = Nicki Greenberg on a book tour in the Blue Mountains in 2018

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Australia

| nationality = Australian

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| field = Comics artist, Illustrator

| works = The Great Gatsby: a graphic novel adaptation

| website = {{URL|nickigreenberg.com}}

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Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist and illustrator.{{cite web|title=nicki-greenberg|url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/authors/nicki-greenberg/|website=readingaustralia.com.au}}

Early life

Greenberg had early success when in 1990, at the age of fifteen, she published The Digits,{{Cite web|url=http://www.betterreading.com.au/author/nicki-greenberg/|title=Nicki Greenberg – Better Reading|last=Reading|first=Better|website=www.betterreading.com.au|language=en|access-date=2018-03-20}} a series of twelve books featuring her fingerprints as characters. The books sold over 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/authors/g/nicki-greenberg|title=Nicki Greenberg|website=Allen & Unwin Book Publishers|access-date=2019-03-29}}

Career

Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation) was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada.The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation Nicki Greenberg (Allen & Unwin, 2007){{Cite web |url=http://www.nickigreenberg.com/nicki.shtml |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 September 2009 |archive-date=25 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025062403/http://www.nickigreenberg.com/nicki.shtml |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Trove |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/nbdid/41182775 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}} Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010.{{Cite book |last=Greenberg |first=Nicki |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4837532 |title=Hamlet: William Shakespeare's Hamlet staged on the page |date=26 August 2010 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=9781741756425 |via=National Library of Australia (new catalog)}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/hamlet-20101028-175ji.html|title=Hamlet|last=Woodhead|first=Cameron|date=2010-10-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2018-03-20}}

She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including Squids Suck (2005),{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=It's True! Squids Suck (13) | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Allen & Unwin | isbn=978-1-74115-601-0}} Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank (2006),{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=Antonia Cutlass walks the plank | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=978-0-330-42269-7}} and Operation Weasel Ball (2007).{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=Operation weasel ball | publication-date=2007 | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=978-0-330-42316-8}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/bird-plane-or-supermensch-comics-reveal-jewish-roots-20090429-ge7txl.html|title=Bird, plane or supermensch? Comics reveal Jewish roots|date=29 April 2009|website=The Age}} She has been interviewed by The New Yorker{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/cartoon-lounge/cartoon-off-nicki-greenberg|title=Cartoon-Off: Nicki Greenberg|last=Dernavich|first=Drew|date=2009-12-16|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-03-20|language=en|issn=0028-792X}} in its on-line cartoon forum, by Jennifer Byrne on ABC1 television, and as part of The Book Show on ABC radio.