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
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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.
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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.
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My first job came the next year at 16.
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The publishers were like syndicates. For instance, the guys that DC hired in 1936, those guys were still working there years later.
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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.
paper shortage
In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.
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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.
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I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
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I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
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DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.
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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.
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But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
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Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.