Quotes by Gil Kane - Page 1

I was hired as a penciler.
Gil Kane / Artist
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In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
Gil Kane / Artist
Paper
Shortage
Dc
Harmed
In Other Words
Shortages
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Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
Gil Kane / Artist
Quality
Precision
Qualities
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Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
Gil Kane / Artist
Saws
Sensory
Structure
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I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
Gil Kane / Artist
Knows
Smart
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DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
Gil Kane / Artist
Pages
Print
Used
Dc
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I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
Gil Kane / Artist
Boys
Legion
Sandman
Stories
Boy
Hired
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I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
Gil Kane / Artist
Focus
Precision
Thinking
Years
Work Focus Me
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But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
Gil Kane / Artist
Relationship
Bigs
Mouths
Troubled Relationship
Big Mouth
Develop
Harry
Mouth
Shorten
Troubled
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Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
Gil Kane / Artist
Believable
Popeye
Tricky
Turning
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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Gil Kane / Artist
Assembly
Assembly Line
Drawing
Infinity
Lines
Looks
Tables
Exactly
Rows
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Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
Gil Kane / Artist
Paper
Real Problem
Shortages
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All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
Gil Kane / Artist
Consistently
Done
Persons
Uprising
Finish
Whoever
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Dog
Littles
Wonder
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Quality
Facts
Ruined
Time Me Quality
Stopped
Helped
Same Time
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Art
Jobs
Order
Fired
Generally
Speaking
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Emotion
Focus
Saws
Structure
Thinking
Saw
Terms
Viewing
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Fifteen
Romance
Sellers
Years
Sudden
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Agency
Publishers
Strong
Style
Agencies
Directly
Happening
Pass
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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.
Gil Kane / Artist
Named
Charles
Covers
First Of All
Jack
Simon
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