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Brian Talley
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I've always loved this Kane gem.......
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John Byrne
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Used to have a beauty of a page from that WHAT IF? One I regret
having parted with. Ah well!
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Josh Goldberg
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Which page did you have, JB?
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Brian Miller
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Comics.org credits it to Kane and Murphy Anderson. But Joe Staton was a
great GL artist as well!
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Joe was also one of Gil's ghosts.
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I did not know that. Wow.
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John Peter Britton
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I was watching a bit of film on yuotube with John Romita and he mentions how Gil Kane's work was a bit sketchy on some of the pencil pages he had inked maybe they were just loose layouts?
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John Byrne
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From what I've seen, Gil rarely did what we would call full pencils today. For
one thing, as can been seen in the finished work, his line was very slender,
and he spotted blacks sparingly. His pencils were very "open", in other
words.
I would not be at all surprised if what he turned in on the Spider-Man
assignments was closer to what we'd call breakdowns than full pencils.
Gil also used a lot of assistants.* It was his habit in his later career to do
full-sized layouts and then have assistants transfer them to 2 ply board and
tighten where necessary. This led to the amusing situation on on job where
his assistants "overlapped" and Gil turned in two identical versions of the
same page, about halfway thru an issue. (I have wondered if something like
this was behind the two adjacent splash pages, albeit not identical, of the
entrance gate in the JURASSIC PARK adaptation.)
*Fairly common practice for his "generation".
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John Peter Britton
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Very interesting JB.
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Chad Carter
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Robert Bradley
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Kirby is the only artist who could draw a punch with as much power as Kane.
That picture is a great example Chad!
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Pascal LISE
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I would rather say :
Kane was the only artist who could draw a punch with almost as much power as Kirby.
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Erik Larsen
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That What If book was one of Gil's best--he and Klaus were really clicking at
that point.
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Pascal LISE
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Not fond of Janson inking over Kane but, yes, that was a powerful book.
Edited by Pascal LISE on 25 April 2009 at 5:56pm
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