Top 20 Gil Kane Quotes
#1. By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
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#2. First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.
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#3. Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
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#4. 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.
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#5. DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
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#6. It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
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#7. In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
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#8. All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
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#15. I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
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#16. But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
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#19. Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
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#20. Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
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