[Rarebooks] FIRST AMERICAN BLACK SLICK MAGAZINE CARTOONIST, AND A GIRLY CARTOONIST, TOO.

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E. SIMMS CAMPBELL: Black and white cartoon, about 10" square margins. 
"C King Features Syndicate, Inc. 1968. dated 6-14. World Rights 
reserved." This slug rests on the bottom margin. SLOGANS:1. Titled 
Kissproof lipstick Slogan outside of box in ink: "I want to return 
these lipsticks. NO -ONE has kissed me YET!" 2. Below in pencil, also 
crossed out. "No, They're not for my daughter, young lady  and I am 
going to report you to the management!"On the rear is written: 3. "IS 
THE NON-KISSPROOF CHEAPER? MY BOY FRIENDS AREN'T A BIT FUSSY." Date 
stamps on rear of June 21, 1965,  May 24th 1969 and July 16 196? 
Simms, who was black, drew his usual cartoons with white cuties in 
both sexy and sexist situations. He was the first black cartoonist 
published regularly in nationally distributed slick magazines. He was 
most active from 1933 to 1958 and his work also appeared in 
Cosmopolitan, Ebony, liFE,The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity, 
Pictorial Review and Redbook. He was very friendly with Cab Calloway, 
and the two families spent time together. He was hit by racist 
restrictions on his home building in Whiteplains NY, and he and his 
family moved to Switzerland, where they lived for fifteen years. 
After his wife's death of cancer, He returned to the USA and died of 
it too in 1971. $375.00

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