Gil Kane quotes

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

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Gil Kane

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Gil Kane

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

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 working there in order for you to find a space.

Gil Kane

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

Gil Kane

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

Gil Kane

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

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

Gil Kane

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

Gil Kane

I was hired as a penciler. (Gil Kane)

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

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

Gil Kane

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

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 really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

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 structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

Gil Kane