Quotes from Brian Stelfreeze

The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie, but then when I saw 'Civil War' and just the perfect way they handled him in that movie, it made me even more excited about a Black Panther film.

There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.

As I've grown as a creator, I feel that I want to tread in deeper waters and have a lot more going on emotionally with the characters. That's my appreciation for comics as a creator and a consumer as well. I'm more into stories that don't just bounce off the surface but go a little bit deeper.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

In a collaborator, I always look for someone who's going to push me a little bit.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

The detail of my art depends entirely on the project itself. I tend to be a little more detail-oriented with covers than I am with interior pages, and I try to reduce the detail on action sequences as opposed to suspense passages.

Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

I try to place what I creatively have to say above who I am.

I decided that in Wakanda, the royal family would have extremely dark complexions, like so black they're blue. My attitude was, because the royal family is dark, the darker you are, the more you're considered royal.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan.

I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

Wakanda is the Marvel world's most technologically advanced nation, and offensives there can have ramifications everywhere, so that leaves open great possibilities for cameos.

I never really thought about the fact that most of the times I saw Black Panther, he was in New York or in some American city doing something cool with the Avengers. I mean, he's the Prince of Wakanda, but we rarely saw him in Wakanda.

When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my attention for, like, the length of what I'll be working on.

I'm trying to have Wakanda represent all of Africa.

I see every project I take on as significant, and I try to pour a lifetime of experience into it.

I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

Wakanda was allowed to develop freely, specifically on its own. Wakanda pushed back all the invaders. So they maintained all their traditions; they maintained all their styles.