Nate Powell

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.

Creating both fiction and nonfiction, his work includes Fall Through, Save It For Later, Come Again, civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy and its follow-up Run, Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire, James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, and stints on The Twilight Zone, Sweet Tooth, and Black Hammer.

He has published comics and writing for The Washington Post, The Nib, Popula, LitHub, Booklist, In These Times, Scholastic, CNN, and The Weather Channel.

Powell’s work has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, the Jack & Roz Kirby Award for Independence, the CXC Transformative Work Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

His next graphic novel, Diana, will be released October 6, 2026 by Abrams ComicArts.

Visit www.nate-powell.com for more information.