Gil Kane
Gil Kane
Gil Kanewas a Latvian-born American comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and every major comics company and character...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Artist
Date of Birth6 April 1926
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist dc guys hired publishers
The publishers were like syndicates. For instance, the guys that DC hired in 1936, those guys were still working there years later.
american-artist apparently fired noise production three weeks worked
I started working in production and I worked there for three weeks but apparently they thought I was making too much noise and they fired me.
american-artist came job next year
My first job came the next year at 16.
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Within a couple of days I got a job with Jack Binder's agency. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp.
american-artist popeye tricky
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
along became paper war
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
american-artist charles guy inside jack named simon
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.
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As a matter of fact, I didn't even have a drawing table or a light or anything because I never had a professional job in my life.
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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.
quality precision
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
thinking years focus
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
dog littles wonder
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.
drawing lines tables
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
years romance fifteen
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.