Gil Kane Quotes
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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
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I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
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But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
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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.
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I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
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I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
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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.
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DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
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I was hired as a penciler.
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Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
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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.
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Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
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In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
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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.
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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.
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All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
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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.
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