Nate Powell's Blog, page 17

R.I.P. James Loewen

Yesterday I received the sad news that author, historian, and collaborator James Loewen had passed away after a long struggle with cancer. I’d gotten to know and work together with him over the past year and a half, and he was a positive, no-nonsense kind of person— and one who had a jarring head-on embrace of his mortali...

Pencils done on the next graphic novel!

Quietly plugging away here on a few book projects— my next solo graphic novel is officially penciled and written! It won’t be announced by the publisher for a while, but it’s 184 pages of interdimensional 1990’s underground punk band soap opera, pandemic-isolation therapy full of sweaty people touching and breathing on th...

RUN-- virtual book discussion today at 4pm Pacific/ 7pm Eastern!

Join writer Andrew Aydin, artist L. Fury and myself— as well as Anthony Dixon, nephew of the late, beloved John Lewis— today in a virtual book discussion of Run, via the fine folks at Bookshop Santa Cruz! 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern. Please register here— thanks!

MARCH: Books 1 & 2 in Time's list of Best 100 YA Books of All Time!

What a profound honor— March: Books 1 & 2 were included in Time’s list of Best 100 suitable-for-young-adults books OF ALL TIME! (And lots of friends and peers were included in this list as well— in particular, Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is one of the best graphic novels of the past decade!)

Go comics, go readers!

'RUN' is in bookstores today!

Today is the day! Run is in bookstores and libraries everywhere— please go support your local bookshop.

Everyone involved worked our asses off to see this book to the finish line. Thinking of John Lewis today, in hopes that we did justice to his last great effort.

This evening we’ll be doing a virtual book discussion via t...

RUN-- virtual book launch discussions for August!

Run will be released this Tuesday, August 3rd! Here are our upcoming virtual book discussions featuring writer Andrew Aydin, artist Lauren Fury, and myself:

8/3: Politics & Prose, 7pm Eastern

8/5: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, 7pm Eastern

8/9: Browseabout Books, 7pm Eastern

8/10: Harvard Bookstore, 7pm Eastern

8/16: Books...

Signal boost: new comics essay by Miriam Libicki, and lots of work to check out!

Just published: here’s a solid new historical comics-essay about the history of Soviet Jewish migration by my good friend and contemporary Miriam Libicki, who’s been an underrecognized torchbearer of the modern comics essay form since about 2005, and whose work has been a big influence on my own approach over the past dec...

Exclusive RUN excerpt up at the New Yorker!

We’re proud to have an exclusive excerpt from Run published today at The New Yorker, with stellar artwork by L. Fury! Run will be available everywhere August 3rd from Abrams ComicArts.

“Aydin described how a large part of Lewis’s advocacy for the March trilogy involved travelling to schools to meet with students and read t...

Huge interview up at The Comics Journal!

Just published today: an absolute beast of an interview at The Comics Journal— the most in-depth I’ve ever done— with lots of deep-dive analysis and linked creative processes between Save It For Later, the March trilogy, and more. Thanks to the perceptive and thoughtful Irene Velentzas for interviewing me!

One year without John Lewis.

Today marks one year since freedom fighter, collaborator, and friend John Lewis crossed over.

I haven’t gathered my thoughts enough for a more personal post today, but this first: opponents of multiracial democracy are working overtime— and succeeding— at undoing his life’s work in pursuit of single-party autocratic rule,...