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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.
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I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.
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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.
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I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.
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'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.