Nate Powell


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U.S.A

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Award:

  • 2008: Ignatz Award Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Artist for Swallow Me Whole,
  • 2009: Ignatz Award Outstanding Graphic Novel for Swallow Me Whole,
  • 2009: Eisner Award Best Original Graphic Novel for Swallow Me Whole,
  • 2014: Coretta Scott King Award "Author Honor" for March: Book One,
  • 2014: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award "Special Recognition" bust for March: Book One,
  • 2016: The National Book Award for Young People's Literature for March: Book Three

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Biography

Nate Powell (born 1978 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American graphic novelist and musician.Powell began self-publishing comics in 1992 at age 14. He graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1996, and briefly attended George Washington University in Washington, DC. He transferred to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, where he majored in Cartooning. Beginning in 2005, while at SVA, he would send Chris Staros and Brett Warnock, the founders of Top Shelf Productions, copies of every book he made.He graduated in 2000 after receiving the Outstanding Cartooning Student award and the Shakespeare & Company Books Self-Publishing Grant, with which he funded the first issue of Walkie Talkie. Nate Powell owned DIY punk record label Harlan Records and performed in several punk bands including Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, and Soophie Nun Squad. From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a caregiver for adults with developmental disabilities.His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Artist, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Fiction category. It received the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, and was also nominated for Best Writer/Artist and Best Lettering.In the early 2010s, Powell learned that Top Shelf would be publishing March, an autobiographical graphic novel trilogy about the life of civil rights leader and United States Congressman John Lewis, which had already been written by Lewis and his colleague, Andrew Aydin. A few weeks later, Powell was contacted by Chris Staros, who suggested he try out for the assignment. Although he already had other projects lined up, Powell sent some demo pages to Lewis and Aydin, who over the course of their subsequent correspondence realized that Powell would be well-suited for the job. Although Powell had illustrated stories that were "true to life," such as the 2012 graphic Silence of our Friends, this would be the first time he would depict real-life historical figures, 300 of which Powell estimates are rendered in total in the trilogy. The scene in which Lewis meets Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first time was the first page Powell drew for March, and although he found approaching that page difficult, says it made subsequent depictions of real-life people easier. Powell's approach was to develop a visual shorthand for each real person he had to draw, in the form of a "master drawing" to act as a reference template for that person's features, one that emphasized the person's skull structure, in lieu of referring constantly to photo reference in the course of the project, so that the characters would not look "too stale or photo-derived." He employed lifestyle and illustration books from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as Google searches, to depict fashion and automobiles of given time periods accurately. Lewis says he found Powell's renditions of scenes from his early life "very moving."Top Shelf published March Book One in November 2013. Powell has worked on the graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero, while working on his own next book, entitled Cover and the short comics collection You Don't Say. On May 15, 2014, Powell was present at that year's commencement ceremony for his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, when the school presented an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts to Powell's March collaborator, John Lewis. The second volume of March is scheduled for January 2015 release.

Artistic production

Comic Title Role Publisher Year Language
Any empire Author Top Shelf Productions 2011 English
12 reasons to die. Volume 1 Author Black Mask Comics 2015 English
Swallow me whole Author Diamond 2008 English
Sounds of your name Author Soft Skull 2006 English
March Illustrator Top Shelf Productions 0 English
The Silence of Our Friends: The Civil Rights Struggle Was Never Black and White Illustrator First Second 0 English
The lost hero : the graphic novel Author Puffin 2014 English
Sweet Tooth 2 (Deluxe edition) Author Dc Comics 2016 English
It disappears Author Soft Skull 2004 English
Come Again Writer Illustrator Editor Top Shelf Productions 0 English
Portami Via Author Illustrator Rizzoli Lizard 2009 Italian
Nate Powell's omnibox Author Top Shelf Productions 2017 English
Tiny giants Author Soft Skull 2003 English
You don't say : short stories 2004-2013 Author Top Shelf Productions 2015 English
The silence of our friends (1st edition) Author First Second 2012 English
Two Dead Illustrator Gallery 13 2019 English
March - Libro uno Cover Artist Illustrator Mondadori Oscar Ink 2017 Italian
Bedrohte Arten: 18-25 Illustrator Panini Comics 2013 German
Wilde Jagt: 34-40 Illustrator Panini Comics 2014 German

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