Nate Powell

It’s my birthday!

I’d like world peace, a functioning democracy, and to continue being a working writer!

So my big wish is that you BUY, BORROW OR BOOST one of my books today!

Happy birthday Cecil!! 💖

My color palette for the cover of DIANA, which you’ll get to see soon enough. It’s a banger.

Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance Graphic novelist Ben Passmore joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new graphic novel Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. Passmore explains the…

NEW EPISODE: Graphic novelist @benpassmore.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new graphic novel Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance.
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Good hair alert.

Click through and read @natepowell.bsky.social's comics essay ABOUT FACE.

Well, it’s time to ink & paint this *official* Twilight Zone story— it’s been very challenging but fun to write.

So much respect for creators who mostly work on single-issue stories & serialized monthly issues— I’m learning a lot along the way!

Make it crystal clear for everyone in your life.

While we’re at it: from my 2018 comics essay “About Face,” laying out the normalization of fascist presence via pop culture & consumer goods. It’s also the central chapter of SAVE IT FOR LATER. popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

Even more relevant today than when this scene was drawn in 2019– losing the living memories of those who survived the Holocaust & participated in the civil rights movement is directly related to all this bullshit.

From my Eisner-nominated book SAVE IT FOR LATER: www.abramsbooks.com/product/save...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

Well, it’s time to ink & paint this *official* Twilight Zone story— it’s been very challenging but fun to write.

So much respect for creators who mostly work on single-issue stories & serialized monthly issues— I’m learning a lot along the way!

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

A new Magik commission for shadow season!

I’d happily draw Illyana every day (*cough cough*, would love to draw a deeply psychological miniseries about trust and connection in her life).

A new Magik commission for shadow season!

I’d happily draw Illyana every day (*cough cough*, would love to draw a deeply psychological miniseries about trust and connection in her life).

Thanks Farel!

The Supreme Court v. Democracy The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

@elienyc.bsky.social in @thenation.com: "American democracy cannot survive the Supreme Court’s attacks on the Voting Rights Act, because American democracy did not really exist before the Voting Rights Act. White rule existed. And that is what this court wants to return us to with this case."

Iron Giant commission! This was a joy to make, conjuring vivid memories of many New England autumns in my young adulthood. 🍂

Antifa

Benjamin West's "American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain, 1783-1784, London, England." It is an unfinished oil painting featuring John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. It is conspicuously incomplete.

One more American Revolutionary Era thing before I forget, cuz it's funny as hell:

The UK didn't recognize American independence until 1783, via The Treaty of Paris.

A painting was commissioned to commemorate the occasion, but the British delegates refused to pose for it.

Salty bitch behavior. 🧂

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Excellent turnout here in Bloomington— definitely the biggest we’ve had in the past five years. All four corners of the square were fortified with people as well— I’d estimate about 2,000 people!

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

Timothy Snyder standing with Cookie Monster, next to an American flag

#NoKings Cincinnati

#NoKings Miami!

Find a protest near you today, right now— and SHOW UP: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=5...

Need to understand the history and importance of the Voting Rights Act? Start here:

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."