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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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