Jackie Urbanovic

Jackie Urbanovic
EducationMaryland Institute College of Art (BFA)
Occupations
  • Author
  • illustrator
Websitejackieurbanovic.com

Jackie Urbanovic is an American New York Times best-selling author and illustrator. The majority of her work consists of children's picture books, including her self-authored Max the Duck series. She regularly speaks at libraries and educational events for children. She was a member of the Children's Book Guild. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she has a studio for her work.

Career

Urbanovic received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her career started in graphic design and cartoons, then realizing she would prefer to illustrate children's literature. She studied writing under the mentorship of Jane Resh Thomas in 1997 and after submitting her work to Highlights, received her first trade illustration job on Spaghetti Eddie. Before she started her children's literature career, she contributed to several anthologies and comics series regarding LGBT themes and issues in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been credited as the Artist-In-Residence at the fictional Molesworth Institute.

Published works

Books

Self-authored and illustrated

  • Do Your Ears Hang Low? (Sing and Read Storybook). Scholastic, 2005. ISBN 978-0439733533
  • Duck at the Door. HarperCollins, 2007. ISBN 978-0061214400
  • Duck Soup. HarperCollins, 2008. ISBN 978-0061214417
  • Duck and Cover. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN 978-0061214448
  • Sitting Duck. HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN 978-0061765834
  • Ducks in a Row. HarperCollins, 2011. ISBN 978-0061864377
  • Happy Go Ducky. HarperCollins, 2012. ISBN 978-0061864391
  • Prince of a Frog. Orchard Books, 2015. ISBN 9780545636520
  • Splatypus. Two Lions, 2017. ISBN 978-1503939202

Illustrated

Other published contributions

References

  1. ↑ "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: PICTURE BOOKS: Sunday, March 9th 2008". The New York Times. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ↑ "Books". Jackie Urbanovic. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  3. 1 2 "JACKIE URBANOVIC". Children's Book Guild. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15.
  4. ↑ "Jackie Urbanovic". R. MICHELSON GALLERIES. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. 1 2 Hoffman, Samantha (2016-10-14). "An interview with Jackie Urbanovic". WriteAngles Conference.
  6. ↑ "jackie urbanovic". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
  7. ↑ Stevens, Norman D. (2006-01-01). "The Fully Electronic Academic Library®". College & Research Libraries. 67 (1): 5–14. doi:10.5860/crl.67.1.5. ISSN 2150-6701.
  8. ↑ Urbanovic, Jackie (1983). "A Word From Our Sponsor...". Gay Comix. 4: 17–18.
  9. ↑ Urbanovic, Jackie (1987). "Losers in Love". Wimmen's Comix. 14.
  10. ↑ Robbins, Trina; Sienkiewicz, Bill; Triptow, Robert (1988). Strip AIDS USA : a collection of cartoon art to benefit people with AIDS. Last Gasp. ISBN 0867193735. OCLC 50386336.
  11. ↑ Robbins, Trina. (1990). Choices : a pro-choice benefit comic anthology for the National Organization for Women. Angry Isis Press. OCLC 608139189.
  12. ↑ Warren, Roz (1995). Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z. Cleis Press. ISBN 978-1573440080.
  13. ↑ Warren, Rosalind, ed. (1999). Men Are From Detroit, Women Are From Paris. Naperville, Illinois: Hysteria Publications. ISBN 1887166513. OCLC 41630898.