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Home / Nicola Streeten

Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery

Jun. 3, 2015 by Sathyaraj Venkatesan

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Guest review by Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Anu Mary Peter, National Institute of Technology, India. Review Published in 2011 by Myriad Editions, Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery (hereafter Billy, Me & You) is a graphic memoir by Nicola Streeten, an illustrator and academic. Serialized initially in Liquorice magazine, Billy, Me & You was later collected into a graphic novel thirteen years after the death of Billy, author’s first child who died after cardiac surgery at the age of two. Suffused with subtle humor, if the memoir chronicles the complexities of human grief and bereavement it also deftly records the emotional… Read More

Tags: bereavement, Billy, child death, death, feminism, graphic memoir, grief, heart surgery, Laydeez do Comics, loss, Me & You, Memoir, mourning, Nicola Streeten

New Podcast: Transformations: Therapy/Not Therapy

Feb. 19, 2014 by Comic Nurse

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Panel 2C from the 2013 Comics & Medicine panel in Brighton brings us four presentations that relate to the theme of therapy. Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with the audio of Panel 2B. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the keynote presentation below.  First up on this panel is Sarah Lightman (author of the forthcoming Book of Sarah from Myriad Editions) of the University of Glasgow and Laydeez do Comics with her talk, “Metamorphosing Difficulties – Post Traumatic Growth in the Autobiographical Comics of Sarah Leavitt, Nicola Streeten and Maureen… Read More

Categories: Brighton 2013, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, journal, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Uncategorized Tags: Freud, Laydeez do Comcis, Lynda Barry, Maureen Burdoch, neurobiology, Nicola Streeten, post traumatic stress disorder, psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis comics, Rachel Ball, recovery, Sarah Leavitt, Sarah Lightman, Teresa Rojas, The Inflatable Woman, The Ohio State Univeristy, transmedial narrative, Trauma studies, University of Glasgow, VS Ramachandran, Yasco Horsman

New Podcast: Publishing Graphic Medicine – Myriad Editions

Nov. 22, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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This panel from the 2013 Brighton Conference features Corinne Pearlman discussing the health-related work she has published through Myriad Editions and The Comic Company. Participating in the panel discussion are Myriad creators Woodrow Phoenix (Rumblestrip), Nye Wright (Things to do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park When You are 29 and Unemployed), Hannah Eaton (Naming Monsters), and Nicola Streeten (Billy, Me & You).   Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with the audio of Panel 2B. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the keynote presentation below. 

Categories: Brighton 2013, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, Health Education, Podcast, Podcasts, Uncategorized Tags: Billy Me & You, Corinne Pearlman, Hannah Eaton, health education, Myriad Editions, Naming Monsters, Nicola Streeten, Nye Wright, public health, Things to do in a retirement home trailer park

Nicola Streeten’s Brighton Keynote: “Damned if you Do, Doomed if you Don’t”

Sep. 16, 2013 by Comic Nurse

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This week’s podcast presents Nicola Streeten’s keynote address from the 2013 Brighton Comics & Medicine conference, “Damned if you do, doomed if you don’t: The 21st century ethics of abortion in graphic novel form.” Nicola is introduced by Sue Eckstein. Use the Quicktime player below to view images along with the audio of Nicola’s keynote presentation. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to an audio-only version of the keynote presentation below. 

Categories: Brighton 2013, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, medical politics, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, symposia Tags: abortion, Billy Me and You, bioethics, ethics, graphic novel, Nicola Streeten

New Podcast Wednesday: Nicola Streeten is a winner!

Sep. 19, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Briefly interrupting the current series of audio from the Toronto conference, this week’s podcast is an excerpt from a conversation I had with Nicola Streeten at Leon’s cafe in King’s Cross rail station. I had the chance to sit down with Nicola during my recent trip to the UK. She discusses her graphic memoir, Billy, Me, & You and the Highly Commended award it received last week from the British Medical Association. She also discusses her academic underpinnings… Read More

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts Tags: Billy Me & You, BMA, Graphic Medicine, Myriad Editions, Nicola Streeten, Paula Knight, Sarah Lightman

Paul Gravett’s Toronto Keynote

Aug. 8, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. New Podcast Wednesdays are back! To open the many podcasts that will emerge from the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference, comics historian, commentator, publisher, and Comica festival organizer Paul Gravett gave the opening keynote to the Toronto Comics & Medicine conference, “Setting the Context: Developments in Graphic Medicine.” Enjoy our new podcast feed. It is not yet available via iTunes, but, fingers crossed, it will be shortly.

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Al Davison, Aliceheimer's, Andre Franc, Andrew Godfrey, Asylum Squad, Better, Billy Me & You, Booster Shot Comics, Comica Festival, comics and medicine, Dana Walrath, Drawn, Fabrice Neaud, Gérald Bernardin, Glyn Dillon, Graphic Medicine, Ian Williams, Iggy & The Inhalers, John Cei Douglas, Jordan Crane, Judith Vanistendael, Karrie Fransman, Keeping Two, Ken Dahl, Laurent Alexandre, Living Underwater, Loupette and the Moon, Macula Broccoli, man + doctor, Mita Mahato, monsters, Muscle Memory, Nancy Andrews, Nick Wadley, Nicola Streeten, Not Your Mother's Meat Loaf, Nye Wright, Paul Gravett, Polite Dissent, Ross MacIntosh, Sarafin, Sayia Miller, seeds, Simon Moreton, Spiral Cage, The CF Diaries, The House That Groaned, The Nao of Brown, Thierry Robberecht, Things to do in a retirement home trailer park, Toronto, Ty Templeton, University of Toronto, Wayne Boring, When David Lost His Voice, Yannick Dombi ou Le Choix de vivre

Graphic Medicine At Work: Muna Al-Jawad and Nicola Streeten

May. 9, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. On 27 April, as part of the Ethics in Performance series at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Dr. Sue Eckstein presents the panel, “Graphic Medicine at Work.” In this first of two podcast episodes of the event, geriatrician Muna Al-Jawad delivers her illustrated talk, “Comics Are Good for Your Health.” In it she presents five ways that comics improve the health and well being of medical professionals. Immediately following is a talk by illustrator Nicola Streeten… Read More

Categories: Podcasts Tags: Muna Al Jawad, Nicola Streeten

New Podcast Wednesday: Graphic Medicine at Work

May. 9, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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As part of the Ethics in Performance series at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Dr. Sue Eckstein presented geriatrician and comics artist Muna Al-Jawad, illustrator Nicola Streeten, creator of Billy, Me, and You, and illustrator Nye Wright, creator of Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park. They each discussed their work in Graphic Medicine and the floor was then opened to questions from the audience. This week’s podcast episode contains Muna & Nicola’s presentations. Next week’s episode will be Nye’s presentation and the lively Q&A with all panelists. If you are enjoying the Graphic Medicine podcast, please consider… Read More

Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Graphic Medicine, Graphic Medicine Podcast, graphic novel, Muna Al Jawad, Myriad Editions, Nicola Streeten, Nye Wright, Sue Eckstein

Comics Bodies- A Multidisciplinary Symposium

Mar. 19, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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I certainly hope to attend this event featuring Karrie Fransman, Nicola Streeten, and Mary Talbot. There is a call for displays out too! enquiries to Dr Matt Green matt.green@nottingham.ac.uk

Categories: comics, Conference Presenters, Graphic Novels, symposia Tags: Karrie Fransman, Mary Talbot, Matt Green, Nicola Streeten

Nicola Streeten: The Stigma of Mourning for Too Long

Jan. 9, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Nicola Streeten has been working as an illustrator for 15 years. Her first graphic novel, Billy, Me & You, has been published in the UK by Myriad Editions. It first appeared in serialised form in Liquorice Magazine. She is in the final stage of a Master of Research in Art, Architecture and Design degree at The University of Lincoln, her research area is gender and the graphic novel. Nicola is co-director of Laydeez do Comics,… Read More

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