Kate Carew was America’s firstgreat woman cartoonist, drawing for newspapers in the firsttwo decades of the 20th century. She drew Sunday color comicsand also interviewed and sketched many of the celebritiesof her time including the Wright brothers, Pablo Picasso,champion heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson and the leadingfigures of the suffragette movement in the years before womenwon the right to vote. Her most endearing achievementwas her cartoon alter ego “Aunt Kate,” whom she sketchedinto the proceedings, turning graphic reportage into her personaladventure from San Francisco and New York to Londonand Paris.
