Nationality American Area(s) Writer, Editor | Name Nat Gertler Role Writer | |
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Notable works The Peanuts Collection
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel
The Factor Books Project Flash MX, Project Dreamweaver MX, Project Illustrator, Easy Microsoft network, Easy works for Windows | ||
Nat gertler shows off the snoopy treasures
Nat Gertler (born April 30, 1965) is an American writer known for his comic books and his books about comics, including two on Charles Schulz's Peanuts. Gertler is the publisher of About Comics, and founded an annual cartoonists' challenge, 24 Hour Comics Day. He was nominated for two Eisner Awards. Gertler made a guest appearance on the comic review show Atop The Fourth Wall as himself.
Contents
- Nat gertler shows off the snoopy treasures
- Anaheim comic con 2011 artist alley 9 meet nat gertler
- Early life
- Career
- Reviews
- Awards and nominations
- Books
- Comics
- References
Anaheim comic con 2011 artist alley 9 meet nat gertler
Early life
Gertler was raised in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, Simsbury, Connecticut, and Riverton, New Jersey.
Career
His first comic-book story, the six-page backup feature "The Visit", appeared in First Comics' Grimjack #57 (cover-dated April 1989). He went on to publish horror-comics stories in Hamilton Comics' Dread of Night and Grave Tales in 1991, and through the 1990s did work for the independent publisher Comic Zone Productions, WaRP Graphics, and Caliber Press, and an issue of Blood Syndicate for DC Comics' Milestone Comics imprint. For Image Comics, he wrote stories for Big Bang Comics #7–8 (Dec. 1996 – Jan. 1997).
He founded comic-book publisher About Comics, initially for his own work, beginning with The Factor issue #0 (1998), and later encompassing new and reprinted work by other creators. About Comics would go on to publish properties such as The Weasel Patrol, The Factor, Licensable BearTM, and The Liberty Project.
In 2004, he founded the annual 24 Hour Comics Day challenge to cartoonists to produce a 24-page comic book, based on a concept previously conceived by Scott McCloud and Steve Bissette in 1990. Outside of comics, he has written or co-written numerous books in the Complete Idiot's Guides series of books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music on the Internet with MP3 and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2000.
Reviews
Gertler's 2010 The Peanuts Collection received positive reviews in USA Today and elsewhere. The Chicago Sun-Times described it as a "slipcovered museum collection" filled with "treasures", and the Christian Science Monitor described it as "a gold mine of Peanuts memorabilia and removable inserts". Gertler's script anthologies Panel One and Panel Two were "highly recommend[ed]" by USA Today for persons interested in learning how to write comic books.