My pal Howard Victor Chaykin has noted that this is the centenary of artist Gil Kane and he has been observing the day with tales of Gil. Like Howard, I was an assistant to Gil. He called up one day and recruited me to work for him. This was in the early '70's and I was working on E-MAN for Charlton. Gil said he liked how I "composed in depth" rather than just cropping compositions. I did layouts and breakdowns from scripts and Gil would tighten them up into full pencils. I
