Nate Powell
@natepowell.bsky.social
I make comics: Fall Through/ Lies My Teacher Told Me/ Save It For Later/ March/ Run/ Come Again. DIANA out in 2026.
orders/info/etc here: linktr.ee/natepowell
orders/info/etc here: linktr.ee/natepowell
Teenage Jody in an Oklahoma ice storm, 1978.
Putting the finishing touches on Jody & Diana’s quantum-displaced misadventures.
Putting the finishing touches on Jody & Diana’s quantum-displaced misadventures.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Teenage Jody in an Oklahoma ice storm, 1978.
Putting the finishing touches on Jody & Diana’s quantum-displaced misadventures.
Putting the finishing touches on Jody & Diana’s quantum-displaced misadventures.
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When explaining fantasy the other day I had to say "I can't really tell you when fantasy started, because probably the first human thought in the world was about magic." Humans have been fantastical thinkers from day one.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When explaining fantasy the other day I had to say "I can't really tell you when fantasy started, because probably the first human thought in the world was about magic." Humans have been fantastical thinkers from day one.
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
My debut graphic novel made it into the WaPo crossword puzzles! 🤯
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My debut graphic novel made it into the WaPo crossword puzzles! 🤯
Twilight Zoning in progress. 👹
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Twilight Zoning in progress. 👹
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Comics are like chess. There are a lot of moving parts w/deceptively simple rules that need to mesh w/o visible seams for everything to come together properly.
Balloon order, panel order, leading the reader around the page, perspective, character vs. environment focus, and Actually Telling A Story.
Balloon order, panel order, leading the reader around the page, perspective, character vs. environment focus, and Actually Telling A Story.
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Comics are like chess. There are a lot of moving parts w/deceptively simple rules that need to mesh w/o visible seams for everything to come together properly.
Balloon order, panel order, leading the reader around the page, perspective, character vs. environment focus, and Actually Telling A Story.
Balloon order, panel order, leading the reader around the page, perspective, character vs. environment focus, and Actually Telling A Story.
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Banned Book Club's been on many prestigious lists, but none more exciting than today.
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Banned Book Club's been on many prestigious lists, but none more exciting than today.
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
@freedomreadproject.bsky.social has it on a list ofways to help talk to your kids about banned books. We're helping!
And a school newspaper included it in a list of PUNK BOOKS! The youths think we're PUNK!
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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“About Face” by @natepowell.bsky.social Same writer-artist who did the “March” biographical series of civil rights leader John Lewis. A must-read for creators and citizens engaged in military- and war-writing.
popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
About Face
Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.
popula.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“About Face” by @natepowell.bsky.social Same writer-artist who did the “March” biographical series of civil rights leader John Lewis. A must-read for creators and citizens engaged in military- and war-writing.
popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
popula.com/2019/02/24/a...
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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For the third of our four days on Swallow Me Whole by @natepowell.bsky.social, I brought in Margaret Fink, the director of our Disability Cultural Center to talk about Mad Studies and the communities of Psychiatric Survivors (people who survived terrible treatment for mental health conditions).
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For the third of our four days on Swallow Me Whole by @natepowell.bsky.social, I brought in Margaret Fink, the director of our Disability Cultural Center to talk about Mad Studies and the communities of Psychiatric Survivors (people who survived terrible treatment for mental health conditions).
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Ha. I predicted something like this in Gendocybin. Sadly when it comes to terrible things, I'm too often right.
A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric surveillance program.
New DHS Proposal Expands Biometric Surveillance Program to Include DNA Sex Test
Experts and civil rights advocates are denouncing Trump’s biometric power grab.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ha. I predicted something like this in Gendocybin. Sadly when it comes to terrible things, I'm too often right.
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Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
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Feels like a good time to revisit @natepowell.bsky.social 's About Face
Those Punisher masks are on display a whole lot in Chicago these days...
Those Punisher masks are on display a whole lot in Chicago these days...
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Feels like a good time to revisit @natepowell.bsky.social 's About Face
Those Punisher masks are on display a whole lot in Chicago these days...
Those Punisher masks are on display a whole lot in Chicago these days...
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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'Democracy doesn’t get redrawn': Indiana Black Legislative Caucus leads rally against new maps
'Democracy doesn’t get redrawn': Indiana Black Legislative Caucus leads rally against new maps • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus hosted a Statehouse rally to oppose GOP efforts to reopen Indiana’s congressional maps ahead of schedule.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
'Democracy doesn’t get redrawn': Indiana Black Legislative Caucus leads rally against new maps
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
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Here’s the cover for my official Twilight Zone story, coming in issue 4– out from IDW on February 4, 2026! I’m just over halfway done with the art for the issue, and it’s coming together really nicely.
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here’s the cover for my official Twilight Zone story, coming in issue 4– out from IDW on February 4, 2026! I’m just over halfway done with the art for the issue, and it’s coming together really nicely.
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
Here’s the cover for my official Twilight Zone story, coming in issue 4– out from IDW on February 4, 2026! I’m just over halfway done with the art for the issue, and it’s coming together really nicely.
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here’s the cover for my official Twilight Zone story, coming in issue 4– out from IDW on February 4, 2026! I’m just over halfway done with the art for the issue, and it’s coming together really nicely.
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
Please place orders with your local comics shop by December 15th & spread the word— thank you!
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
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Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year.
We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year.
We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
Evil.
Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard.
There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.
There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Evil.