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10 years since finishing MARCH: BOOK ONE.

10 years ago this weekend, I had just finished drawing March: Book One and joined my collaborators John Lewis & Andrew Aydin on a pilgrimage to sites of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama.

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Artwork on exhibit at Boston University through March 24th

I have some original artwork from March and Save It For Later currently on display at Boston University’s Stone Gallery (855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215) through March 24th as a part of the “Comics Is A Medium, Not A Genre” exhibit curated by Joel ...

New linktree!

I finally joined the 21st century and got a linktree to help keep things readily accessible at linktr.ee/natepowell.

Uncomfortable truths & accurate history.

James Loewen penned the above words back in 1995 for the original edition of Lies My Teacher Told Me— and it’s truer than ever today, in the face of increasingly hostile and violent opposition. This book helped lay the foundation for so much of how we thi...

MARCH used for public defender's swearing-in!

Absolutely mind-blowing: Minneapolis county attorney Mary Moriarty was sworn in yesterday with her hand on a copy of March! I know John Lewis would be beside himself, beaming with the spirit of history in effect.

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new year at the drawing table.

This year brings the (hopefully broadly acknowledged) understanding that social media is not a permanent outlet when we are its product. Back to making more drawings for the enjoyment of drawing itself, as I continue inking my adaptation of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Also on the horizon in 2023: my recently-completed graphic novel Fall Through will be released around August! Official announcement in the coming months.

In the meantime, I kicked off the year with this Kate Pryde & Lockheed piece! Ka...

Original artwork for sale!

If you’re interested in original artwork, I have a few dozen pages for sale via Atheneum Comic Art— this includes pages from most of my pre-2020 books. Listings are being updated currently, and there should be a good sampling of Sweet Tooth and Black Hammer pages added in the next few days as well! All pages are signed and dated by the year in which they were drawn.

(To prevent undue shock, please be aware that my March pages are considerably more expensive than my other work. This has always bee...

Update, new art, new Hive account.

Hi everybody! I’m still inking Lies My Teacher Told Me (The New Press, 2024), and working on cover art for Fall Through while slogging through this awful wave of brutal anti-LGBTQ terrorism and legislation, combined and amplified by the kneecapping of Twitter. Check in with your queer, trans, and non-binary friends and loved ones, and be ready and willing to stick up for those in your community.

I still have a Twitter account for now, but if you follow me, you know that I mostly use the platform...

roundup for SAVE IT FOR LATER

Thanks to everyone who’s stood behind Save It For Later over the past year and half, reflecting what we’ve collectively weathered over the past decade— unfortunately it’ll only be increasingly relevant as both a time capsule and a letter to our days of future present.

Along the way, Save It F...

Open-carry authoritarians are a danger to our neighborhoods.

The irresponsibility. The insecurity. The sheer stupidity.

Don’t carry firearms in public on a costumed children’s holiday— doing so makes our entire society unsafe, which (I know) is authoritarian wish fulfillment.