It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And … - Mike Royer

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Mike Royer

It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.

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I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability. "

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During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker. " That's how it started.

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I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school. " So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

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Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

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It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and. . . oh, we don't do that anymore. " I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.

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