E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971) was the first African-American cartoonist to be published in nationally distributed magazines. His watercolor comic art was published in Esquire, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, and many other magazines, and his artistic talent was sought out by numerous advertisers. Cuties was his gag panel, featuring attractive young women and their romantic foibles. This volume brings together his two Cuties in Arms collections from 1941 and 1943, during those war years when soldier-oriented humor was particularly popular. (Among other things, we see glimpses in these panels of women at work for the war effort and other aspects of civilian and military life during WWII.)
