The Great Gatsby

A brilliant, innovative, reverently faithful graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age classic.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby' has captured the hearts and minds of readers for generations. Set in the glitter and decadence of 1920s New York, Max Perkins, in a letter to Fitzgerald on reading the original draft said: "The Novel is a wonder.... it has vitality to an extraordinary degree and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality.... it is astonishing."

Nicki Greenberg's graphic adaptation took of The Great Gatsby took more than six years to complete. It is an innovative and breathtaking homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age classic that brings to life the glitter, the melancholy and the grand and crumpled dreams of Fitzgerald's unforgettable characters. Her throng of fantastical creatures play out the drama, the wry humour and the tragedy of the novel, faithful to Fitzgerald's plot, mood and characterisation.

Characters in The Great Gatsby

Daisy is a complex character - charming, careless, morally compromised and disappointed. Her feather-light flightiness and air of luxury are conveyed by her white, fluffy round head, while her slender, elegant neck and hands suggest both seductive charm and vulnerability.

Gatsby is a self-made enigma, a mystery deepened by its contradictions. He is simultaneously heartbreakingly sincere and utterly fake, noble and corrup, glamorous and gauche. His form is inspired by the seahorse - a gorgeous, impossible looking animal that seems to have been put together from bits of other creatures.

Tom - everything about Tom's personality is overbearing, arrogant and brutal, as embodied in his big, hulking, hyper-masculine body and brutish face. he occupies more space than anyone else, suggesting substantial social and financial power.

About the Author:
Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based comic artist, illustrator and lawyer. In 1990 she wrote and illustrated The Digits, a series of twelve children's books, selling 400,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. Spin-off merchandise included greeting cards, giftwraps and stickers. More recently, in 2005, she wrote and illustrated It's True! Squids Suck for Allen & Unwin. It was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Aventis prize and the Australian Wilderness Society Awards in 2006.

An active contributor to the Australian independent comic art scene, Nicki's comics have appeared in Silent Army, Pure Evil, Tango and other comic art anthologies in Australia, Canada and Spain. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as Comic Book Lifestyle (Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts) and Inside Out (Westspace Gallery) and featured in The Age newspaper. The Great Gatsby is her first graphic novel.

At seventeen, Nicki fell in love with 'The Great Gatsby'. Almost ten years later, she set out to pay tribute to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel by interpreting it in comic art form. It took more than six years to complete this enormous labour of love.

Nicki lives in Melbourne Australia, with her husband, stepson and two bad cats. In her spare time she works as a lawyer.

Allen & Unwin
Author: Nicki Greenberg
ISBN: 9781741751338
RRP: $39.95