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
uprising done persons
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
saws structure sensory
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
art jobs order
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.
troubled-relationship mouths bigs
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
strong agency style
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.
pages used print
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
I was hired as a penciler.
boys stories sandman
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
smart knows
I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
quality facts ruined
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.
paper shortage
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
thinking focus saws
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.