Happy Birthday: Jack Kamen
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, Jack Kamen studied at the Art Students League and the Grand Central Art School and actually got his start in sculpture—his first professional job was on the Texas Centenniel.
His illustration career was just beginning when he was called up to the Army in 1942. After World War II, Kamen began drawing comics for Fiction House and Iger Associates, then started working for EC Comics in 1950. He quickly became one of their most prolific artists, particularly on their horror lines though he also worked on crime/suspense and weird science/fantasy books.
Kamen left comics in 1954 and did advertising art and supplemental illustrations for a wide variety of other clients—when Stephen King and George Romero created the horror anthology film Creepshow, an homage to EC’s horror comics, they tapped Kamen to do the artwork. He also illustrated the cover of the graphic novel adaptation.
I think it should be noted that Jack's son, Dean, is the inventor of the two-wheeled Segue as well as the AutoSyringe, an inexpensive water purification system, and about 400 other gizmos. He received the National Medal of Technology in 2000. So choke on it, Freddie Wertham!
You beat me to the punch, Mike!
Also from Wikipedia: Kamen's son Dean Kamen is the inventor of the Segway and the iBOT Mobility System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kamen Happy Birthday, Jack!