Gil Kane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

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

#Boys #Stories #Sandman
I was hired as a penciler.
-- Gil Kane
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
-- Gil Kane

#Pages #Used #Print
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
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
-- Gil Kane

#Troubled Relationship #Mouths #Bigs
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
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
-- Gil Kane

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

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

#Drawing #Lines #Tables
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
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
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
-- Gil Kane

#Quality #Precision

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