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.

His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run, viral comics essay About Face, and graphic novels Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole. He has published nonfiction comics and writing for The Washington Post, The Nib, 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, and the CXC Transformative Work Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Free Speech TV.

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 is currently drawing Diana, a character-centered prequel to Fall Through to be released in 2026. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.