Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
From Gil Kane
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
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.
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.
Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.
I was hired as a penciler.
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
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