Samuel Joyner

Samuel Joyner (born February 7, 1924), one of the few African American political cartoonists in the country and historians of comic art, published his first cartoon in the Philadelphia Tribune as an elementary school student. He also served over nearly 20 years as a teacher in the Philadelphia school district. He received many awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from Temple University in 2002 as well as recognition from the National Newspapers Publishers Association and the Houston Sun. The Samuel R Joyner Papers are archived at the Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center.