Eddie Campbell
kate Carew
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ISBN 979-8-8750-0021-8
Kate Carew-COVER.indd 1-5
$30.00
Americ a’s F irs t Great Woman Cartooni st
In Kate Carew, America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist, Eddie Campbell, no slouch in the award-winning cartoonist category himself, writes the first extensive critical biography of this path-breaking pioneer artist.
kate Carew
was America’s first great woman cartoonist, drawing for newspapers in the early years of the 20th century. She drew Sunday color comics alongside George Herriman, but it was in the idiom of freestanding caricature that she made her mark. She interviewed and sketched so many of the celebrities of her time including the Wright brothers, who built and flew the world’s first successful airplane; the world champion African American boxer, Jack Johnson; Picasso, the 20th century’s most famous painter; and the leading figures of the suffragette movement in the years before women won the right to vote in the UK (1918) and the US (1920). Her most endearing achievement was her cartoon alter ego “Aunt Kate,” whom she sketched into the proceedings, turning graphic reportage into her personal adventure from San Francisco and New York to London and Paris.
kate Carew A m e r i c a ’s F i rs t G re a t Wo m a n C a rt o o n i s t
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