The cartoonist Billy (Aikaterini) Gousiou was born in Sidirokastro, Serres, in 1937 and passed away in 1998.
She studied violin, film directing in Athens (1956), and film directing and journalism in Rome (1957–1960).
From 1960 to 1967, she lived in West Germany before settling in Thessaloniki, where she dedicated herself systematically to cartooning and caricature. Her work was inspired by contemporary social and political reality, satirizing the absurdity that prevails from life to death and expressing the impasse of modern man. Her cartoons are characterized by a sharp yet subtle critical spirit, economy of expressive means, and meticulous drafting quality.
She also worked as a translator of German literature for various journals. She collaborated with the weekly newspaper ‘Drasis’ and the literary journal ‘Ausblicke’, published by her friend Hannelore Ochs.
Her cartoons were also published in the form of albums.
She held solo exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut in Thessaloniki (1970) and at the ‘Techni’ Macedonian Art Society in Kilkis (1984). She participated in group cartoon exhibitions in Greece and Germany, as well as exhibitions at Dinos Christianopoulos’s Little Art Gallery ‘Diagonios’ (a joint exhibition with A. Nedelkou-Seremeti in 1987 and 50 group exhibitions between 1974 and 1989).