Quotes by Mike Royer

Mike Royer

Being a naive 20-something I didn’t think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist’s union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, “Oh, but yes he does get screen credit.”

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During the Mavelmania days in the late ’60’s I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, “Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you’re a pretty good inker.” That’s how it started.

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Every morning I’d have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.

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Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

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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.

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I chose Bagdasarian Productions when I heard from some colleagues at work who were buying story boards at the time back in the early ’90. I met the man once when I came in with the first half of the story board and the only thing he said when looking at the first half of the board was, “It’s so nice to see someone using their imagination.”

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Men

Nice

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them “Kirby/Royer” because it was Kirby’s drawing. I didn’t think I was committing some sort of sin.

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Thinking

I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she’d ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she’d have me ink it.

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Men

Nice

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn’t even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

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People

Tables

I guess I’ve been naive my entire life.

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Quotes by Mike Royer

Mike Royer

Being a naive 20-something I didn’t think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist’s union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, “Oh, but yes he does get screen credit.”

During the Mavelmania days in the late ’60’s I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, “Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you’re a pretty good inker.” That’s how it started.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

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.

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them “Kirby/Royer” because it was Kirby’s drawing. I didn’t think I was committing some sort of sin.

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn’t even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

I guess I’ve been naive my entire life.

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