Nicki Greenberg


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

Early life

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. The books sold over 380,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand.

Career

Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada. Her graphic adaptation of Hamlet was published by Allen & Unwin in 2010.
She has written and illustrated a number of other children's books, including Squids Suck, Antonia Cutlass Walks the Plank, and Operation Weasel Ball. 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. 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.