Nate Powell (b. 1978, Little Rock, Arkansas) is a graphic novelist, publisher, and musician. He owns DIY punk record label Harlan Records, has performed in several punk bands (including Universe, Divorce Chord, WAIT, Soophie Nun Squad, Boomfancy, and Gioteens), and occasionally performed hip hop as Featherweight MC. From 1997 to 2002 he was an actor and skit writer for North Little Rock sketch comedy show Fun And Games. Powell currently lives in Bloomington, IN.From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a caregiver for adults with developmental disabilities.

His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut, as well as the 2009 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. On March 2, 2009, it was named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Fiction category. It received the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, and was also nominated for Best Writer/Artist and Best Lettering.

Powell is currently drawing Any Empire (forthcoming on Top Shelf Productions in 2011) and drawing the graphic novel The Silence Of Our Friends (forthcoming on First Second Books in 2012), written by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos.

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with Soophie Nun Squad (1992-2007)

"We Ate Slayer" demo tape (5/94, Food Chain Records)
"We Rule The World" demo tape (8/94, Food Chain)
"Vs. the USA" 7" (3/95, Food Chain)
"The Dogtown Chronicles" comp tape (5/95, Food Chain...also vocalist for the bands Mob and Dentistry on this comp)
"Dino" 7" (4/97, Harlan Records [formerly Food Chain])
Don't Let Them Take You Alive CD (3/98, Harlan)
"Heartbreakers and Rumpshakers" comp 7" (8/98, Harlan)
The Devil, The Metal, The Big Booty Beats LP/CD (1/00, Harlan/Plan-it-X/Phyte)
"A Compilation for Heroes" comp CD (5/00, Streetcar Music)
"Defeated Food Not Bombs Benefit" comp CD (5/00, Defeated)
"Listen to What I'm Made Of" comp 2xCD (7/01, File 13 Records)
split LP/CD with Abe Froman (4/03, Harlan/ Plan-it-X)
Passion Slays The Dragon LP/CD (9/03, Harlan/ Plan-it-X/ Narshardaa Records)
"Rootbeer and Molotovs" comp CD (11/04, Ten Fingers Collective)
"Plan-it-X Fest 2004" comp DVD (6/05, Plan-it-X)
"If it Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk" comp CD (12/05, Plan-it-X)
"All The Days Are Numbered So" comp CD (3/06, Harlan)

with Boomfancy (2000-2001)

7-song 7" (1/01, Harlan)

with Gioteens (1999-2001)

8-song demo (7/00, Harlan)

with W A I T (2005-2007)

(listed as Nate Powell)All The Days Are Numbered So" comp CD (3/06, Harlan)

Say It, Come True CD (10/06, Harlan)

with Divorce Chord (2007-2008)

demo CDR (4/08, Harlan)
"lose your illusion II" demo CDR (2/09, Harlan)

with Universe (2008-present)

demo CDR (4/09, Harlan)
Passenger CD (6/10, Harlan)

other appearances

co-lyricist, Tem Eyos Ki "Kids Kill Kids" from split 7" with Hundred Years War (8/00, Harlan)
co-lyricist, Tem Eyos Ki "Stop Action" from tour CDR (5/01, self-released)
voice and percussion, Abe Froman "Walking Distance", from Abe Froman/ Soophie Nun Squad split LP/CD (4/03, Harlan/Plan-it-X)
coconuts, tap dancing, flavishorn, backing vocals, Spoonboy I Love You, This is a Robbery (3/05, Plan-it-X)
backing vocals of "doo do do doo" only, Matty Pop Chart track on "If it Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk" comp CD (12/05, Plan-it-X)
vocals with Lisa Bennett Merva, All The Days Are Numbered So comp CD (3/06, Harlan)

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