Nate Powell's Blog, page 34

Salt-N-Pepa pinup for HIP HOP FAMILY TREE book!

Here's a pinup I did of Salt-N-Pepa for Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree book (collecting the amazing series featured on BoingBoing), which should be out later this year from Fantagraphics! I'm really excited to see the whole book come together.


I should note that Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" was the first song that my band Soophie Nun Squad ever covered, starting in early 1994. Here's a version from our first full-length.

THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS in YALSA Top 10 Great Graphic Novels For Teens!

YALSA just announced that The Silence Of Our Friends is in their Top 10 Great Graphic Novels For Teens list for 2013 -- excellent news!

Congratulations to comics friends Raina Telgemeier, Joseph Lambert, and Faith Erin Hicks, each of whom also had books on the list!

MARCH featured for Black History Month at Library Journal!

MARCH: Book 1 , the upcoming graphic novel autobiography of Congressman John Lewis (co-written by Andrew Aydin and drawn by me), is featured on The Library Journal 's list of 28 GN's to Celebrate African American History Month ! It'll be hitting stands in August from Top Shelf.

Tem Eyos Ki's remastered LP masterpiece now available digitally!

 
I am honored to announce that, after being out-of-print for 9 years, North Little Rock punk/speed metal/chamber folk powerhouse Tem Eyos Ki has digitally reissued their classic 2002 LP on my Harlan Records site!

(download/listen here!)

The album is completely remixed and remastered by drummer/engineer Kevin Rains, and features a previously unreleased song as well. If you haven't heard this band (or this album), you're missing out on something powerful, visionary, and heartfelt. My favorite band of all time! Besides sharing membership with Soophie Nun Squad , members have gone on to perform in Humanbeast, Bloodhuff, V Manuscript, Universe, Divorce Chord, Holy Angell, and Zucura. Vocalist Maralie Armstrong-Rial is a multimedia performance artist, guitarist Eli Milholland runs the Gross Domestic Product cassette label, and guitarist Michael Lierly is an accomplished painter.

Here's a collection of Tem Eyos Ki photos up on my Flickr site.

You can also download digital versions of their 7", split 7" with Hundred Years War, and tour CDR .

Tem Eyos Ki in Richmond VA, June 2001. Photos by Chris Boarts Larson.

R.I.P. Mason Mauldin

Sugar And The Raw, 2008 (Mason seated at center). Photo by Matthew Martin.Little Rock lost another good fellow too soon-- Mason Mauldin, a solid fellow best known as frontman for Sugar And The Raw and Big Boots and more recently a skilled airplane pilot, passed away yesterday in a terrible accident. Thoughts and love going out to all those affected, and all the intertwined friends in our community. You are sorely missed, Mason!

Here 's a clip from KTHV news on Mason and the LR music scene's reaction to his loss.

And here's a clip of Big Boots playing in 2007:

The Silence Of Our Friends review at Kleefeld On Comics

Here's a new and personal review/reflection on The Silence Of Our Friends at Kleefeld On Comics.