NATE POWELL is a graphic artist and musician. He began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992 and went on to become the first cartoonist to receive the National Book Award, which he won for his illustration of late civil rights icon John Lewis’ autobiographical March trilogy, written with Andrew Aydin. Powell is also the recipient of four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions. Creating both fiction and nonfiction, his work includes Fall Through and Come Again, a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me; Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and the Urgency of Protest; Run, the follow-up to the Lewis trilogy; the graphic novels Two Dead; Swallow Me Whole; Any Empire; and stints on The Twilight Zone, Sweet Tooth, and Black Hammer. He has published comics and written for The Washington Post, The Nib, In These Times, CNN, and The Weather Channel. On the music side of his career, Powell was introduced to the hardcore punk community in 1991, and from 1992 to 2010 he performed and toured with multiple underground punk bands, including Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, playing more than 500 shows across North America and Europe. He also managed DIY label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.
