Gil Kane quotes

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could. (Gil Kane)
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything. View quote
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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. View quote
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But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. View quote
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But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space. View quote
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DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. View quote
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All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time. View quote
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If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it. View quote
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I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything. View quote
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In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. View quote
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I was hired as a penciler. (Gil Kane)
Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. View quote
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I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. View quote
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Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work. View quote
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Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers. View quote
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I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus. View quote
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Gil Kane

Gil Kane - Image
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Artist
Born: April 6, 1926
Died: January 31, 2000
Quotes count: 16