Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler (born April 30, 1965) is an American writer who is known for his comics and books about comics. His 2010 The Peanuts Collection received positive reviews in the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today and others; 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 is an authority on the subject of Schulz's Peanuts, and runs an Internet site that sells memorabilia associated with the comic strip. He was nominated twice for the Eisner Award, once in 1999, which is the comic book industry's equivalent to the Oscar Awards, based on his work entitled The Factor about an unseen superhero. Gertler is also notable for founding in 2004 an annual 24-hour long challenge to cartoonists to produce a "24-page comic book". In addition, Gertler has written prose fiction, technical writing, television episodes and a video game script, as well as numerous titles in the Complete Idiot's Guides series of books. He founded a specialist publishing firm called About Comics which manages properties such as The Weasel Patrol, The Factor, Licensable BearTM, and The Liberty Project.

Personal life
Gertler is a graduate of Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Selected comics works

 * 24 Hour Comics All-Stars (editor), About Comics, 2005 (ISBN 0-9753958-4-X).
 * 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights, 2004 (editor), About Comics, 2004 (ISBN 0-9753958-0-7).
 * Comics prose : short stories (editor and contributor), About Comics, 2004 (ISBN 0-9716338-6-X).
 * The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel (with Steve Lieber), Alpha Books, 2004 (ISBN 1592572332).
 * The Factor (with various illustrators), About Comics, 2004 (ISBN 0-9716338-5-1).
 * reprints The Factor, issues 0-4, About Comics, 1999.
 * issue 0 previously published in Negative Burn 29-31.
 * Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers (editor), About Comics, 2002 (ISBN 0-9716338-0-0).
 * Speed Racer classics (writer for English script; original Japanese manga Mach go go go by Tatsuo Yoshida), Now Comics, 1988.