One of the first commercial black artists in US with a career that stretched from the early 1930s to the late 1960s. A cartoonist for his High School paper. Studied at Chicago Art Institute. Moved to New York, selling cartoons to the humor mags (Life, Judge, College Humor). Fellow artist, Russell Patterson, pointed out his own success with "good girl art" and impressed Campbell to follow. Campbell created the "Harem Girls," a hit from the very first issue of Esquire (1933). Campbell's watercolors were a key reason for Esquire's success and he turned out several paintings per issue, as well as ideas for other artists, article writing, and covers. Ads for Springmaid, Hart Schaffner and Marx, Barbasol. When Esquire abandoned illustration art, Campbell and several others moved to Playboy and helped make yet another magazine a success. Contributions to Cosmopolitan, New Yorker, Sunday Pictorial Review, Opportunity Journal Of Negro Life, Ebony. Two collections of WW2 cartoons: Cuties in Arms and More Cuties in Arms. He then had a long run with King Features.