Brian Stelfreeze

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I started my work on a lot of the 'Batman' books. So I've worked on a 'Batman,' 'Spider-Man,' some of the 'X-Men' books.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.”

“I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.”

“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.”

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