Billy, Me & You Her graphic memoir,
Billy, Me & You, is the first long-form graphic memoir by a British woman to have been published. It was published in 2011 and received press and media attention including being featured on
Channel 4 News. The book is about Nicola's partner Billy's terminal cancer and death, and about grief, parenting, and rebuilding life afterward. The narrative moves between the period of Billy's illness, his death, and Streeten's attempts to care for their young child while processing loss. Rather than focusing on medical detail, the book emphasizes emotional disorientation, everyday logistics, and the fragmented experience of mourning. It is cited as an example of
Graphic Medicine as it deals with the intersection of comics and medicine.
The Inking Woman The Inking Woman was published in 2018. It is a picture-led history of the work of more than 100 named British artists, and a some anonymous ones, documenting 250 years of women's cartooning and comics in Britain. The book accompanies the 2017 exhibition at London's
Cartoon Museum,
The Inking Woman: 250 years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain. This exhibition was curated by
Cath Tate, Kate Charlesworth, Anita O’Brien and
Corinne Pearlman and was the first ever comprehensive exhibition of British female cartoonists and comics artists, with contributions from more than 80 women from the 1890s to the 2010s.
The Inking Woman book includes for example the
Tamara Drewe creator
Posy Simmonds, the
Women's Liberation Movement and its embrace of cartoonists for example in publications like
Spare Rib, Mary Tourtal – the often overlooked creator of Rupert Bear, or the contemporary
DIY Cultures Festival in London. As Streeten said to the
Scotland Herald: == Laydeez Do Comics ==