Gil Kane

(8 votes)   As a matter of fact, I didn't even have a drawing table or a light or anything because I never had a professional job in my life.

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(6 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

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(4 votes)   My first job came the next year at 16.

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(4 votes)   Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

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(11 votes)   But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

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(11 votes)   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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(10 votes)   I started working in production and I worked there for three weeks but apparently they thought I was making too much noise and they fired me.

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(8 votes)   All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

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(8 votes)   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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(8 votes)   I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

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(8 votes)   I was hired as a penciler.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

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(6 votes)   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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