representation: Charlie Olsen (charlie@inkwellmanagement.com)

original art inquiries: Athenaeum Comic Art

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

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, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run, Two Dead, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, and stints on The Twilight Zone, Sweet Tooth, and Black Hammer.

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

Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 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.

From 1992 to 2010, he performed and toured in multiple underground punk bands including Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, and managed DIY label Harlan Records.

Powell’s next graphic novel, Diana, will be released October 6, 2026 by Abrams ComicArts.