WIth the help of Kate Carew's granddaughter, Christine Chambers, Eddie Campbell has assembled an excellent monograph on the life and career of Kate Carew (born Mary Williams; aka Mary Reed).  Carew started her professional career during the last decade of the 19th century as an illustrator, producing detailed pen & ink portraits for the San Francisco Examiner.  When newspaper comics first started gaining traction during the first decade of the twentieth century, Carew was there with The Angel Child, which first appeared in 1902 in both black & white dailies and glorious full color Sunday pages.  She continued with her illustration work, developing a fairly unique hybrid cartooning caricatural illustration form that she pursued into the the 'teens.  Later in life, as Mary Reed, she embarked on a painting practice, working both in watercolor and oil. 

All this and more is covered in this spiffy 160 page 8 1/2" x 11" full color volume that is packed with illustrations, including many crisp full color scans of her newspaper comics and illustration work.  The publication of this fine edition has enabled an early star of comics to rightfully regain her place in comics history.  Thanks, Eddie!