V. Floyd Campbell

Campbell was born in Port Austin, Michigan, the son of a blacksmith, and graduated high school in 1890.

He began his newspaper work with the Detroit Free Press, meanwhile studying at the Museum of Art with Joseph Giles; several years later studying at the Detroit Art Academy under the same master.

Between 1891 and 1894 he was employed with various engraving firms in Grand Rapids, Lansing, and St. Paul, at the same time contributing to the newspapers of each place.

[1] After a short course of study in Chicago, he returned to the Free Press, remaining there until the fall of 1897.

His caricatures of politicians were popular during the 1904 Republican National Convention,[2] and he illustrated The Roosevelt Bears by Seymour Eaton, a comic strip with the distinction of being the only strip ever run by The New York Times.