Quotes From Peers

"But the thing I remember about going up to Prize was, there was a fellow there, a very fine artist named Mort Meskin. Mort Meskin was one of the sweetest gentlemen I've ever met in the business. He and I got along famously. Every time I'd see him, we'd sit and talk. I was just a kid, between eighteen and twenty-four, twenty-five. I had, and still have, a Sheena Sunday page he did for Eisner and Iger back in 1938, and I asked if he'd sign it for me. He did, and I'm very proud of it. He was a damn good artist."
-Al Williamson from The Jack Kirby Collector

"Mort's work was more graceful [than Jack Kirby's]. Jack's was exaggerated action and dramatic-one leg would be about ten feet away from the other. Mort was a gymnast so it had an influence on his Johnny Quick and Vigilante. Mort was graceful, but Jack was dynamic."
-George Roussos from The Jack Kirby Collector

"When [Mort Meskin] went to DC, he was doing stuff like Johnny Quick and the Vigilante...[sic] that's where I got the opportunity to ink him. And I was so young, and so innocent...[sic]and so naive, that getting to work on his beautiful stuff didn't scare me . (Laughs) That's how innocent and dumb I was."

"He was a wonderful artist and storyteller. He applied great technique to storytelling, dramatization, and page composition. His techniques of attacking a story are things that I use now...[sic] and techniques I tell to anybody who's interested in getting into the business. I don't know why he never achieved the accolades that I think he deserved."
-Joe Kubert from Comic Book Marketplace

"One of the fastest , one of the best."
"He was was the fastest guy in the place. He'd do 2, 3 pages a day there and other guys were struggling at half a page; couldn't stop him."
-Joe Simon in the Jack Kirby Collector

"When [DC Comics] hired Mort Meskin to do Vigilante, he had come over from MLJ and he was hired because some of the writers from MLJ recommended him and the first thing he did for them was Vigilante and it turned out to be a smash. He was a brilliant artist then, who hit like a ton of dynamite."
-Gil Kane in the Comics Journal

"Mort was the only one of us that studied art...[sic]at the Pratt Institute. So I learned a lot from Mort in terms of anatomy. We weren't trying to be super realistic, as I mentioned, but we did work hard to get the style right. Mort's best advice to me (if I was stuck with something) was: "Work it out." (Laughter). So I would redraw the figure enough times until I figured out how it would work properly."
-Jerry Robinson in Comic Book Marketplace