Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.
His work includes the graphic essay/memoir Save It For Later, Ozark horror tale Come Again, civil rights icon John Lewis’ March trilogy and its follow-up Run, comics essay About Face, and graphic novels Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole.
Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions, and the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, PBS, and Free Speech TV.
His new graphic novel Fall Through will be released by Abrams ComicArts on February 6th, 2024, followed by a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s influential Lies My Teacher Told Me (The New Press, April 16, 2024).
You can find more of his work at https://www.seemybrotherdance.org/