Quote by Gil Kane Download Open image “I was hired as a penciler.” — Gil Kane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun. — David Rees Copy Share Image
I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the… — David Rees Copy Share Image
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a… — John Wells Copy Share Image
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and… — John Newman Copy Share Image
As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
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… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
