So this post broke containment and lost a little of the context when it did but Bikini Kill are the ones donating to TCP, not Bandcamp. We generally choose a different org or mutual aid fund to support on Bandcamp Fridays and this is what we chose this month.
It would be great to see someone campaigning on the single issue of holding all of these fuckers accountable for war crimes
Bernard Lafayette crossed over yesterday at age 85– one of young John Lewis’s closest college friends, entering the sit-in movement & first arrested together, working in SNCC & SCLC, a Freedom Rider imprisoned at Parchman Farm, a voter registration organizer instrumental to the Selma movement. 🖤
More info & preorder links for DIANA are here: bsky.app/profile/nate...
Proofs arrived for the interior of DIANA and paperback printing of FALL THROUGH— it’s getting real. They look fantastic.
Out in the world on Oct. 6th, and debuting at SPX in September!
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
Reminder. This upcoming Tuesday at 7pm in the Wex Center auditorium at Ohio State University, I'll be giving what is likely my final public presentation on my book KENT STATE.
A slideshow presentation, with a Q&A and a signing to follow. Books will be available from the Wex bookstore.
I'm very excited to be working as a editor on a nonfiction comics series on censorship with @xtramagazine.com !
Thank you Chris!!
It was deeply meaningful to receive the inaugural Kirby Award for Independence!
Here’s more info on the Kirby Awards:
A lovely Morticia sketch I did while at OAX.
I wrote about how the 2000 indie bookstores known as comics shops have won over the book publishing industry and more thoughts on #comicspro26
The cover to THE TWILIGHT ZONE #4, "False Bottom." A woman is under water, fear on her face as she sinks, light pouring down on her from an open square above her, what appears to be a doorway. Black, wraithlike hands reach through the doorway towards her. Around her the water is an inky black, and black tendrils come up from the bottom of the image to reach for her. Artwork by Nate Powell.
Also picked up @natepowell.bsky.social's issue of THE TWILIGHT ZONE this weekend. Really great story, evocative of the best episodes of the series, and the art is, as always, gorgeous.
Wow, thank you so much!
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
Thank you Eric!
Here’s a bit more info on DIANA— preorders are open now: bsky.app/profile/nate...
Very much missing the near-daily drawing of Diana and Jody over the past 6 years, slowly experiencing an evolution in their looks, personalities, backstories and motivations.
Here’s a panel from DIANA— out October 6th from Abrams!
John Lewis’s warnings have been on my mind today, as we see the direct vulnerabilities of downplaying civil rights as “activism lite”:
Kansas fascists negating many trans citizens’ licenses serves both genocidal aims (erasure from society) AND voter suppression (immediate disenfranchisement).
A tabby cat laying on a floor vent under a chair, belly up, slightly curled, paws tucked, his handsome white chin looking towards the camera, eyes tightly closed
Imagine the perfect life
a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses
Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!
I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
acefoundationict.org
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back.
It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.
“Discussion of gender is not sexualization… [nor making] books available to students that represent the diversity of their experiences. Such an interpretation says far more about the adults and the perspectives they’re applying to books than it does about the books or their intended audiences.”
Trans rights are human rights and if one of is ain’t free then none of us are.
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
