Nate Powell
American cartoonist, graphic novelist, and illustrator, best known for his graphic novel Swallow Me Whole and for illustrating the civil-rights trilogy March in collaboration with Congressman John Lewis.
Books
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1. Save It For Later
A spare, emotionally rich graphic memoir that follows a young person growing up in small‑town America as they navigate family tensions, the punk and DIY music scenes, and the slow, messy work of coming to terms with queer identity and creative calling; intimate scenes of friendship, dislocation, and artistic obsession are rendered with observational detail and black‑and‑white imagery, showing how memory, music, and making art become tools for survival and self‑understanding.
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2. Swallow Me Whole
A stark, haunting graphic coming-of-age about two isolated siblings in a small town who slowly unravel under the pressure of a fractured home, social cruelty, and deepening psychological distress; the narrative blends spare, shadowy realism with surreal, often nightmarish visual sequences to make inner turmoil visible, exploring identity, loneliness, and the fragile boundary between imagination and illness as each character seeks escape, understanding, or salvation.