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Gil Kane Biography

Gil Kane (/dʒɪl keɪn/; born Eli Katz /ˈiːlaɪ kæts/; April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

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I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Boy, Boys, Hired, Sandman, Stories

I was hired as a penciler.

Hired, Penciler

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

Deep, Focus, Thinking, Work, Years

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Everything, Saw, Saws, Sensory, Structure

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

Harmed, Paper, Shortage, Shortages, Words

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

Company, Pages, Print, Used

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.

Facts, Looking, Quality, Ruined, Time, Working

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Assembly, Drawing, Lines, Look, Looks, Rows

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.

Agency, Pass, Publishers, Strong, Style

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.

Emotion, Focus, Saws, Think, Thinking, Viewing

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

Bigs, Harry, Mouths, Relationship, Troubled, Troubled Relationship

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

Done, Finish, Inking, Person, Persons, Uprising

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.

50S, Collapse, Dog, Littles, Wonder, Work

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.

Art, Jobs, Order, Person

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.

Comics, Field, Fifteen, Romance, Years

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

Constantly, Know, Knows, Mouthed, Smart

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

Precision, Qualities, Quality, Work

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