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… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!" — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about how it's… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I like to think that I gave Jack Warner Brothers inking and Joe Sinnott gave him MGM inking. If you're not as in love… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
People ask me who my favorite inker is and I tell them my favorite inker was Joe Sinnott...but I was the best. Now I… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart,… — Mike Royer Copy Share
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… — Mike Royer Copy Share
I was with Roy Thomas on a panel and he turned to me and said, "You know, your name is on the cover a… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams. — Mike Royer Copy Share
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the kind of brushes… — Mike Royer Copy Share
I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
