Gil Kane Quotes

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
Gil Kane

Time, Person, Done

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

Big, Started, Mouth

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

Used, Company, Print

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

Structure, Sensory

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
Gil Kane

Work, Focus, Deep

I was hired as a penciler.
Gil Kane

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

Stories, Boy, Hired

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

Smart, Off, Constantly

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

Words, Paper, Dc

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

Down, Line, Drawing

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
Gil Kane

Enough, Turning, Tricky

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

Work, Qualities, Precision

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
Gil Kane

War, Real, Problem

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, Hard, Person

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

Time, Down, Here

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

Business, Strong, Through

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

After, Used, While

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

Focus, Deep, Whole

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

Time, Working, Same

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: April 6, 1926

Died: January 31, 2000

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