įrom 1999 to 2009, he worked as a caregiver for adults with developmental disabilities. Powell owned DIY punk record label Harlan Records and performed in several punk bands including Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, and Soophie Nun Squad.

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. 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 transferred to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, where he majored in Cartooning.

He graduated from 1996, and briefly attended George Washington University in Washington, DC. That same year he founded the punk rock band Soophie Nun Squad with high school friends. Powell attended North Little Rock High School and began self-publishing comics in 1992. The child of an Air Force officer, Powell's family moved often, living in Montana and Alabama before returning to Little Rock. Powell was born Jin Little Rock, Arkansas. Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, which received the 2016 National Book Award, making Powell the first cartoonist to receive the award. He illustrated the March trilogy, an autobiographical series written by U.S. His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won an Ignatz Award and Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel. It's a dense and informative work propelled by Powell's fluid layouts and vivid depictions of violence and emotion, as well as a personal passion that helps make this memoir timely and relevant, drawing a straight line between decades to compare the modern iterations of a struggle that still continues.Nathan Lee Powell (born 1978) is an American graphic novelist and musician. The narrative reveals the real work of revolution, focusing not just on the well-known events but the behind-the-scenes decision making, compromises, personal battles, sacrifices, and overall political landscape. moving through the blood-soaked years from 1963 to 1965 and ending with the signing of the Voting Rights Act, Lewis's on-the-ground viewpoint puts many human faces on the historic battles. Beginning with the church bombing at Birmingham, Ala. The final volume of congressman and civil rights crusader Lewis's memoir, produced with cowriter Aydin, gives a perfect balance of clarity and passion, drawing readers into the emotions of civil rights struggles, while carefully providing context and information, as well as empathy, even for the worst of the movement's foes.

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