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.
I was hired as a penciler. - Gil Kane
I was hired as a penciler.
- Gil Kane
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. - Gil Kane
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything. - Gil Kane
I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time. - Gil Kane
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
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 structur… - Gil Kane
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 structur…
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. - Gil Kane
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
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 re… - Gil Kane
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 re…
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
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.
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 workin… - Gil Kane
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 workin…
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