Quotes by Joe Shuster - Page 1

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Glasses
Shy
Wore
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Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Bits
Kent
Littles
Little Little Bit Bit
Little Bit Little Bit
Clark
Harold
Suppose
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Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Jerry
Paper
Forth
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I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Canada
Cleveland
Ohio
Years
Settled
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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Character
Thinking
Initially
Letter
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I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Art
Calendars
Giving
Paper
Calendar
Drew
Pencil
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I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Art
Assistance
Burden
Handle
Heavy
Alone Work Art
Increasingly
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And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Flying
Giving
Jumping
Movement
Agreed
Cape
Draw
Flowing
Helped
Leaping
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Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Anatomy
Classes
Detailed
Drawings
Element
Unfortunately
Looked
Sketches
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Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Character
Fun
Having Fun
Jerry
Drawings
Enjoying
Character Fun Always
Lark
Seriously
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I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Empathy
Leader
Views
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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Complete Freedom
Deadline
Jerry
Problem
Slam
Complete
Forerunner
Restrictions
Says
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Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Jerry
Scripts
Stories
Technique
Visualizing
Me See Story
Picked
Scenario
Screenplay
Whenever
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I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Jobs
Artist
Enjoyed
Hated
Mediocre
One Day
Pride
Produce
Best Work Day
Complete
Evidently
Page
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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Running
Imagination
Billboards
Drawing
Games
Radio
Toys
Wild
Superman
Visualized
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He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Cases
Flying
Leap
Buildings
Draw
In The Beginning
Suppose
Mostly
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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Science
Artist
Familiar
First Time
Jerry
Ordinary
Science Fiction
Superhero
Surroundings
Usual
Formula
Instead
Planet
Recall
Reversed
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In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Imagination
Artist
Deadline
Jerry
Speak
Supervision
Editorial
Freely
Great Deal
In The Beginning
Restricted
Rush
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Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Joe Shuster / Artist
Artist
Collecting
Delight
Flash
Intense
Pages
Foster
Hal
Joe
Tarzan
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