While what fans see on the screen is important, especially for such a historic Marvel series, producer Flynn noted that the team created an entire process for ensuring who was making the show as reflective of the diverse New York viewers would see onscreen. “The characters themselves are done in a very pen and ink, hand-drawn style because we want it to feel like an illustrated moving comic,” Loter added, with Clouden confirming real graffiti artists also worked on the show. “New York in a lot of animated shows has been misrepresented.

“We started thinking about what New York is,” he told the panel audience.

Creating a look that was just as much of a character as the show’s actual characters (without detracting from them), meant pulling in influences from graffiti, street art, screenprinting and the work of artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, according to the supervising producer.

While Fishburne’s love of the comic might have brought it to screen, Loter and Clouden noted that it was their and the team’s love for New York that helped give it its vibrant, sketchy style.

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