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Gil Kane
American
Artist
About the author
I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
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,
American
Artist
#Time
#Quality
#Fact
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Time
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Problems
#War
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Work
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Infinity
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,
American
Artist
#Style
#Business
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,
American
Artist
#People
#Art
#Jobs
#Order
#Space
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Words
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,
American
Artist
#Time
#Years
#Romance
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Company
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
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,
American
Artist
#First
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,
American
Artist
#Deep
#Focus
#Emotion
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
#Work
#Years
#Deep
#Focus
I was hired as a penciler.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
Gil Kane,
American
Artist