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" All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time. "
Time
Consistently
Done
" 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. "
Art
You
Space
" But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten. "
Also
Big
Mouth
" Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. "
Time
Everything
Going
" 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 really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers. "
Enough
Strong
You
" DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it. "
Company
DC
Only
" Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything. "
Anything
Everything
Never
" 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. "
First
Inside
Who
" If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it. "
Time
Looking
Me
" I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus. "
Think
Feel
Focus
" In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. "
Never
Words
DC
" I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. "
Build
Deep
Focus
" It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. "
Line
Look
You
" I was hired as a penciler. "
Hired
" I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could. "
Stories
Legion
Many
" I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything. "
Anything
Too
Smart
" Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. "
Us
Most
Enough
" Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work. "
Work
Precision
Qualities
" Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. "
Problems
Paper
Real
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