Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Fall Through, Come Again, Save It For Later, Swallow Me Whole, civil rights icon John Lewis's March trilogy and its follow-up Run, a comics adaptation of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, and more. Powell's work has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He fell into the hardcore punk community in 1991, playing hundreds of shows in underground legends Soophie Nun Squad and other bands, and managed do-it-yourself label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.