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The artist of the National Book Award-winning March series will talk about the craft of making comics on Wednesday, July 1st, 5pm-6pm PST/8pm-9pm EST.
The artist of the National Book Award-winning March series and the acclaimed graphic essay collection Save It For Later will talk about his approach to making nonfiction comics. Nate started self-publishing comics as a teenager in Arkansas and toured the country in a punk band for many years before he became a celebrated graphic novelist. In this one-hour conversation with Crucial publisher Shay Mirk, he’ll discuss his craft and what he’s learned in his three decades of making comics.
Date: Wednesday, July 1st, 5pm-6pm PST/8pm-9pm EST
About Nate Powell:
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.
About the Artist Talk series:
In 2026, Crucial Comix is hosting a series of talks by cartoonists about their art-making process. These one-hour sessions are open to the public and all sliding scale. Artists previously featured in the series were Lee Lai, Thi Bui, and Mattie Lubchansky
To make them affordable, all of our classes and workshops are offered at a sliding scale cost.
Supporter - This payment level pitches in a little extra toward the teacher’s income and helps pay artists to create new comics at Crucial. Thanks for your support!
Standard - This is the basic rate for the class, which covers our costs.
Discount - We want people of all income levels in our classes, so choose this rate if you paying the standard rate is a stretch for you.
We set aside three spots in each class to be offered for free to people who would find it a hardship to pay the discount rate for any reason. These free spots are first-come, first-serve. If you would like to take a class for free, please send us a short email about yourself, what class you would like to take, and why. If a free spot is still available, we’ll send you a discount code to register for free! Email: editors@crucialcomix.com
