Gil Kane Quotes

• DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

  Gil Kane

  Pages, Used, Print

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• I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

  Gil Kane

  Boys, Stories, Sandman

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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

  Dog, Littles, Wonder

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• Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

  Gil Kane

  Saws, Structure, Sensory

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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

  Uprising, Done, Persons

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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

  Quality, Facts, Ruined

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• It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

  Gil Kane

  Drawing, Looks, Lines

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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

  Thinking, Focus, Saws

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• I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

  Gil Kane

  Smart, Knows

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• In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

  Gil Kane

  Paper, Shortage

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• I was hired as a penciler.

  Gil Kane

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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

  Strong, Agency, Style

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• But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

  Gil Kane

  Troubled Relationship, Mouths, Bigs

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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

  Art, Jobs, Order

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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

  Years, Romance, Fifteen

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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

  Thinking, Years, Focus

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• Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

  Gil Kane

  Quality, Precision

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