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Gil Kane [1926-2000] American

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Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and every major comics company and character.

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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.		101
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.		102
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.	Relationship	103
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.		104
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.		105
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.		106
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.		107
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.		108
I was hired as a penciler.		109
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.		110
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.		111
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.		112
I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.		113
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.		114
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.		115
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.		116
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.		117
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.		118
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.		119

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