30 Quotes by Gil Kane

My first job came the next year at 16.

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.

The publishers were like syndicates. For instance, the guys that DC hired in 1936, those guys were still working there years later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was hired as a penciler.

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.