Inducted 2022
Known as E. Simms Campbell, he was a St. Louis born commercial artist and the first African American cartoonist published in major national magazines. In 1933, he became a staff cartoonist for Esquire Magazine and also developed the comic “Cutie,” a nationally-syndicated cartoon that ran for 25 years in 145 publications His work was also published in Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Redbook other publications, and he was a member of the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.