Exhibit | ASTRAY: Nate Powell's Sorcerer Punks and US History Myths

When

Wednesday May 29, 2024: 10:00am to Tuesday July 9, 2024: 8:00pm

Where

Downtown Library: Lower Level Display Cases

Description

Nate Powell showcases different approaches to fiction and nonfiction in comics storytelling to tackle common themes of myth-making, memory, freedom, and the power of expression in the new graphic novels Fall Through and Lies My Teacher Told Me.  

Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a new comics adaptation of James Loewen’s influential Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy, Come Again, Two Dead and more.

Powell’s work has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions, the CXC Transformative Work Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, and CNN.