I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley … - Mike Royer

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I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Mike Royer

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school. " So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

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I learned that, "Mike, you get your first job on your ability and every job after that on your dependability. "

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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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Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

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It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and. . . oh, we don't do that anymore. " I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.

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In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.

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