I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass … - Mike Royer

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What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Mike Royer

I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

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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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