{{Short description|Australian artist}} {{BLP primary sources|date=December 2013}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox artist | image = | caption = Nicki Greenberg on a book tour in the Blue Mountains in 2018 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|06|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]] | movement = | spouse = | field = [[Comics artist]], [[Illustrator]] | works = ''The Great Gatsby: a graphic novel adaptation'' | website = {{URL|nickigreenberg.com}} }} '''Nicki Greenberg''' is a [[Melbourne]]-based [[Australia]]n comic artist and illustrator.<ref>{{cite web|title=nicki-greenberg|url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/authors/nicki-greenberg/|website=readingaustralia.com.au}}</ref>
== Early life == Greenberg had early success when in 1990, at the age of fifteen, she published ''The Digits'',<ref>{{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}}</ref> a series of twelve books featuring her fingerprints as characters. The books sold over 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/authors/g/nicki-greenberg|title=Nicki Greenberg|website=Allen & Unwin Book Publishers|access-date=2019-03-29}}</ref>
== 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 Group|Penguin]] in [[Canada]].<ref>''The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation'' Nicki Greenberg ([[Allen & Unwin]], 2007)</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Trove |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/nbdid/41182775 |website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref> Her graphic adaptation of ''[[Hamlet]]'' was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010.<ref>{{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)}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including ''Squids Suck'' (2005),<ref>{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=It's True! Squids Suck (13) | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Allen & Unwin | isbn=978-1-74115-601-0}}</ref> ''Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank'' (2006),<ref>{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=Antonia Cutlass walks the plank | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=978-0-330-42269-7}}</ref> and ''Operation Weasel Ball'' (2007).<ref>{{Citation | author1=Greenberg, Nicki | title=Operation weasel ball | publication-date=2007 | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=978-0-330-42316-8}}</ref> Greenberg is a regular contributor to the regular Australian comics anthology ''[[Tango (comics)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She has been interviewed by ''The New Yorker''<ref>{{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}}</ref> in its on-line cartoon forum, by Jennifer Byrne on ABC1 television, and as part of ''The Book Show'' on ABC radio.
== See also == {{Portal |Children's literature}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20240704225304/https://www.nickigreenberg.com/ Nicki Greenberg website] via Internet Archive * {{AustLit}}
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