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

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

- Gil Kane

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

- 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…

- Gil Kane

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

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- Gil Kane