RIP Jack Kamen

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Slightly belated, but I only just noticed that another of the great EC Comics artists died earlier this month, this time Jack Kamen, from cancer. I always liked the fact that while his style was very much one of romance/Good Girl comics, EC used him for

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“… those stories where the All-American girl and guy are married, and then chop each other to pieces.” – Al Feldstein
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Here is a link to a site with more biographical information and some samples of his work. Oh, and he was the father of Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway.

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Slightly belated, but I only just noticed that another of the great EC Comics artists died earlier this month
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Another? Who else passed recently?

Now I get the ‘2008’s been a bad year for comics creators’ reference in a thread about the passing of Carlos Meglia on another community, though…

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