Brian Stelfreeze
Brian Stelfreeze is an American comic book artist. Stelfreeze is a painter, penciller, inker and colorist and has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher. He is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios.
Brian Stelfreeze
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- Born
- 16 August 1962
- Nationality
- American
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (2014) Glyph Comics Award (2017)
- Occupation
- penciller · illustrator · draftsperson · painter · artist
- Fields
- art of drawing · painting · comic
- Honours
- Inkpot Award · Glyph Comics Award for Best Artist
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Brian Stelfreeze is an American comic book artist. Stelfreeze is a painter, penciller, inker and colorist and has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher. He is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios.
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Brian Stelfreeze (born 2000) is an artist, cover artist and draftsperson, among other activities, of American nationality. Activity centred on art of drawing, comic and painting. Honours include Glyph Comics Award for Best Artist and Inkpot Award.
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• Born — 16 August 1962 • Nationality — American • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Write — y • Art — y • Color — y • Notable Works — CyCops, Shadow of the Bat, The Ride, Domino, Matador, Gun Candy, The Ride: Die Valkyrie, Black Panther • Awards — Inkpot Award (2014) Glyph Comics Award (2017)
Career
Career
Stelfreeze began his career as the artist of the sci-fi miniseries CyCops in 1988. While Stelfreeze has been known throughout his career primarily as a cover artist, painting more than fifty cover illustrations for DC Comics' Shadow of the Bat, he has also produced a significant amount of sequential work, including the miniseries Domino for Marvel Comics and Matador for DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. Currently, Stelfreeze acts as art director for 12 Gauge Comics and occasionally has provided artwork for their series The Ride, and its prequel, Gun Candy. He also worked on the Walt Simonson-written Demon/Catwoman feature in DC Comics' Wednesday Comics. Stelfreeze is the artist on the 2016 revival of Marvel's Black Panther with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. In 2020 Stelfreeze launched Thomas River, a spy series with a 40-page first issue. He created the art for the series, and co-wrote the series with Doug Wagner. The first issue was crowdfunded through Kickstarter, surpassed its funding stretch goal of $30,000, and was published by 12 Gauge Comics.
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Brian Stelfreeze is recorded as penciller, illustrator, draftsperson, painter and artist.
Life and career
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Life and career
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2000
Brian Stelfreeze born.
2016
The Signature Art Of Brian Stelfreeze (2 catalogued editions) (2016) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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Catalogued works
The Signature Art Of Brian Stelfreeze
Awards
• 2014 Inkpot Award • 2017 Glyph Comics Award for "Best Artist" (for Black Panther)
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- 1.Roberts, Sidra. An Interview With Brian Stelfreeze Guest Interviewer, Sidra Roberts. The Collector Times. April 2001.
- 2.Narcisse, Evan. Brian Stelfreeze reinvented Batman and Black Panther. Now he's taking on the CIA. Polygon. Vox Media. Sep 15, 2020.
- 3.Helvie, Forrest. Black Panther Gets an All-Star Team in 2016. marvel.com.
- 4.McMillan, Graeme. 'Black Panther' Artist Returns with Spy Thriller 'Thomas River'. The Hollywood Reporter. Sep 15, 2020.
- 5.Heya #ThomasRiver Backers: congrats! We've reached the stretch goal of $30K, and 8 more story pages have been added! If we make it to $35K, we get Doug & Brian's script added. Let's do this. bit.ly/3hw1ePi. 1312069668262146048.
- 6."2017 Glyph Award Winners Announced," Previews World (May 22, 2017).
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