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Jack Kamen is an illustrator who was born May 29, 1920 in Brooklyn. His first professional job was an an assistant to a sculptor doing work for the Texas Centennial. He studied with sculpture with Agop Agopoff and was a student of Harvey Dunn, George Bridgman and William C. McNulty. Kamen attended classes at the Art Students League and the Grand Central Art School and paid for his studies by painting theatrical scenery, decorating fashion mannequins and doing sculptures. May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ...
1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
He was beginning a career as an illustrator for Western and detective pulp magazines when he was called into the Army in 1942. After World War II, he started drawing comic books for Fiction House and Iger Associates, eventually getting assignments from EC Comics to do romance comics. He became one of the most prolific EC artists, drawing crime, horror, humor, suspense and science fiction stories. After EC, he did Sunday supplement illustrations and created advertising art for a wide variety of clients: Esquire Shoe Polish, Mack Trucks, Pan American Airlines, Playtex, RCA, Smith Corona, Sylvania. Entertaining Comics was headed by William Gaines but is better known by its publishing name of EC Comics. ...
Kamen's son is Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway and the iBOT Mobility System. Dean Kamen on one of his inventions, the Segway Human Transporter. ...
Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the Segway HT at the U.S. Department of Commerce on February 14, 2002. ...
The iBOT is a variety of powered wheelchair, developed by Dean Kamen in a partnership between DEKA and Johnson and Johnsons Independence Technology division. ...
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