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Books

Books for general readers

Hermoine appeared in several books including The Modern Girl’s Guide to Everything, The Modern Girl’s Guide to Safe Sex and The Modern Girl’s Diary. After The Modern Girl’s Guide to Safe Sex had been on sale for a year, it was seized by the NZ Customs who, she claims, said they were 'alerted to the likely content of the book by the word sex on the cover’.

Her novel The Crocodile Club, published 1997, was about [the city of] Darwin. She wrote and illustrated a book of advice on etiquette problems, Keep Yourself Nice (Allen & Unwin, 1990); its illustrations include cover of (a leering male) “Hi there, cupcake!” and (female with chainsaw) “Should I use a fish knife?” advice columns – for newspapers and magazines – were collated into four non-fiction books – Living With Crazy Buttocks; Get a Grip; Get Another Grip; and Keep Yourself Nice.

Satirical 'Little Books' in the style of the Little Book of Calm: The Little Book of Stress; through The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shui The Little Book of Crap (with Simon Weazelpantz), The Little Book of Beauty  and the Little Book of Diet and Exercise ("why not kayak to work?).

Living with Crazy Buttocks (Penguin 2001), a collection of essays mainly published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age with others based on radio pieces, is relatively lavishly illustrated with her own spiky cartoons.

Children's books

Her first children’s book, The Terrible Underpants (Puffin, Ringwood: Vic., 2000) – written when she was 'a mum’ – consists of 15 full-page colour cartoons and a brief narrative.

Films

Cooke’s commentary and cartoon collection Real Gorgeous (featuring 'Hermoine the Modern Girl’) was published as a CD-ROM by Film Australia in 1995; it received the 1995 AFI Award for Best Short Film. Her signature cartoon character, Hermoine the Modern Girl, was turned into a series which won an AFI award for best animated short film in 1994.

Radio

the Austereo Network's Foxy Ladies (with Kaz Cooke) (1998) In 1998, she did a radio show with Judith Lucy called Foxy Ladies. When the network wanted to have it sponsored by Diet Coke, they said no. "We said, ‘We don’t want a sponsor with diet in its title’, Then, in 2004, she hosted a breakfast radio show on 2DAY-FM in Sydney with Lucy and Peter Helliar before moving to an afternoon slot in Melbourne.

She is a member of the Australian Cartoonists' Association (formerly the Black & White Artists Club).