“I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.”
![“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.” quote by Mike Royer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b5/mike-royer-14555_credit_i-assisted-with-russ-manning-for-about-e_749759.jpg)
![“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…” quote by Mike Royer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d0b/mike-royer-14555_academy_i-ve-been-very-lucky-with-the-people-i-v_766773.jpg)
