The books that stuck with me most as a child were ‘A Wrinkle In Time’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Hatchet’, ‘Bunnicula’, ‘White Fang’, and this YA/kids’ book called ‘Nobody’s Fault’ where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch. Nate Powell Read Quote
Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence. Nate Powell Read Quote
The truth is, I don’t sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself. Nate Powell Read Quote
Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America. Nate Powell Read Quote
I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers. Nate Powell Read Quote
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you’re not being redundant between images and text. Nate Powell Read Quote
There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun. Nate Powell Read Quote
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something’s farther away, it’ll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing. Nate Powell Read Quote
My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In ‘March,’ everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters. Nate Powell Read Quote
I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that’s being told. Nate Powell Read Quote
