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" I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling. "
Believe
Art
True
" 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. "
Dark
Attitude
Black
" I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.' "
Storytelling
Art
Consider
" I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S. "
People
Small
Small Town
" 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. "
Pool
Think
Knowledge
" 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. "
Unique
Talent
Respect
" I'm trying to have Wakanda represent all of Africa. "
Trying
Africa
Represent
" 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. "
Thought
Cool
City
" In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that's really non-Newtonian. You can't just absorb energy, you've gotta change it into something else. "
You
Universe
Knowledge
" I see every project I take on as significant, and I try to pour a lifetime of experience into it. "
See
Project
I See
" I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy. "
Most
I Think
Comics
" I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature. "
Technology
Think
Nature
" I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place. "
Deeper
I Think
Place
" I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow. "
You
Creative
Reality
" I try to place what I creatively have to say above who I am. "
Say
Who
Try
" I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments. "
Black
Simplicity
People
" Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented. "
People
Two
Fall
" Most established comic writers have a fixed style or methodology, so what you get on page one of the first issue is about the same for the last page of the series. "
Style
You
Same
" Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan. "
Black
Enough
Panther
" There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing. "
Person
True
Knowing
" 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. "
World
Nation
Possibilities
" 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. "
Develop
Own
Back
" 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. "
Get
I Can
Story
" 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. "
Out
You
Creativity
" When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share. "
Home
Art
Good
" 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. "
Art
Drawing
Get
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