Author, Cartoonist, Broadcaster

Kaz Cooke is best known as a successful columnist, author and cartoonist.

She is currently working on a new book for teenaged girls called Girl Stuff, to be published by Penguin Australia, in late 2007.

Books include:
Most recently Kidwrangling (Caring for Kids aged 0-5), The Baby Book - A Fun Scrapbook for the First 5 Years; Up The Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy; also Real Gorgeous - The Truth About Body and Beauty, Get a Grip, Get Another Grip and Living With Crazy Buttocks (newspaper column collections), and the mega-selling send-ups in the 'Little Book' series: from the Little Book of Stress (a send up of The Little Book of Calm), through The Little Book of Dumb Feng Shuito and the Little Book of Diet and Exercise ("why not kayak to work?").

Kaz also co-authored a sensible women's health book on everything from the first period to menopause: Women's Trouble (herbal and medical solutions) by Ruth Trickey and Kaz Cooke.

The Terrible Underpants, Kaz's first book for children was released in Australia and the UK in 2001 and Up The Duff was published in the UK by the Rough Guide Group under the title of A Rough Guide To Pregnancy was released in the same year.

Kaz's books have been translated into many languages and for many markets including the UK, the US, Spain, Italy, China and Latvia. Yes, Latvia.

A 2004 Calendar based on Real Gorgeous was released at the end of 2003 through the Ink Group.

Regular columns at various times, have included: The Age, the Sunday Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Who Magazine & The Australian.

Kaz has also provided regular cartoons for The Australian Women's Weekly. Humorous articles contributed to far too many magazines to mention.

Gorgeous featuring cartoon character Hermoine the Modern Girl, produced by Film Australia. Winner of the 1994 AFI award for best short animated film.

Totally Gorgeous, featuring the text of Real Gorgeous and the animated film, Gorgeous. Co-directed by Rob Wellington of Tantamount Productions, Melbourne. Produced by Film Australia and used extensively in Australian schools to help kids explore issues of body image, self-esteem and marketing hype.

Pilot of animated TV series, Hermoine The Modern Girl, produced by Southern Star. Extensive experience being interviewed on publicity tours, chat shows etc, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK & the USA.

www.kazcooke.com

Kaz has appeared as a speaker at a number of functions and events for organizations from the NSW Midwives Association through to Nokia.

She has never been to Tuscany.

Exclusively represented by Token Artists.
Contact Kevin Whyte or Veronica Barton on 03 9417 4700 for further details.
Last Updated: February 2007