Nate Powell

Nate Powell is a National Book Award–winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Save It for Later; civil rights icon John Lewis’s Run: Book One, Come Again, Two Dead, and its follow-up Any Empire; and Swallow Me Whole. Powell’s work has received four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, and CNN. As for his music career, Powell was introduced to the hardcore punk community in 1991, played over 500 shows across North America and Europe in various bands, including underground legends Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, and managed the do-it-yourself label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.

Nate Powell's Titles

Run

Run

Run, Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is an essential graphic novel, whether for the home or the classroom. First you march, then...


Fall Through A Graphic Novel

Fall Through

"Devastating and gorgeous," the New York Times Book Review proclaims. "Perhaps it's a ghost story, perhaps it's a fantasy story, but it's refreshingly...


Save It for Later Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

Save It for Later

From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of the March trilogy, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a...