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Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, was Stephen Colbert’s guest Thursday night. Dean’s brother is a physician specializing in childhood cancers. That’s their father, Jack Kamen, in the still frame for the video that has Dean’s appearance on The Colbert Report.
Jack Kamen was an artist for the notorious EC Comics. Entertaining Comics Comics. Redundant, but so is DC Comics — Detective Comics Comics.
An example of Kamen’s work is in the gallery. The character Seymour bears a remarkable resemblence to Dean as an adult, but Dean was only 1 year old when his dad drew this story!
Jack was never a “fan favorite” artist, but he was a capable and dependable craftsman. Kamen’s work was always solid, consistent and, above all, never late. He’s what editors and publishers call a “pro’s pro.”
Back in the 50’s, EC Comics were a target of a Senate investigation into juvenile delinquency, and were considered to be a bad influence on kids. EC’s were admittedly gross and violent, sometimes in the extreme, but I’d say that Dean and his brother seemed to have turned out all right.
