Gil Kane Quotes
"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
(Related: Time, Quality, Fact)
"All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time."
- Gil Kane
(Related: Time)
"Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems."
- Gil Kane
(Related: War, Problems)
"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work."
- Gil Kane
(Related: Work)
"Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough."
- Gil Kane
"It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables."
- Gil Kane
(Related: 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
(Related: Business, Style)
"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
(Related: Art, People, Jobs, Order, Space)
"In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages."
- Gil Kane
(Related: 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
(Related: Time, Romance, Years)
"DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it."
- Gil Kane
(Related: Company)
"Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything."
- Gil Kane
"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
(Related: 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
(Related: Deep, Emotion, Focus)
"I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work."
- Gil Kane
(Related: Work, Deep, Focus, Years)
"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
"But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten."
- Gil Kane