Nat Gertler

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Nat Gertler is a writer who has written books about computers and comics, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel (co-authored with Steve Lieber). He has also written comics, prose fiction, television episodes, and at least one video game script. Gertler founded the About Comics publishing company.

Gertler is the self-published creator of the comics mini-series The Factor, about a superhero who is never actually seen in the comic. The Factor was nominated for the 1999 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.^[1]

[edit] 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.