In the spirit of the classic "Take Me Back" zine/compilation, this new work collected by Nate Powell showcases the same intentions towards grassroots communication and expression of the punk scene outside of just music. Features Erin Tobey, Travis Fristoe, Al Burian, Nate Powell, Mike Taylor, Emil Heiple, Farel Dalrymple, and Meredith Gaydosh. Themes explored include rejection, reading science fiction books, the one-sided conversation next to you on an airline, psychic powers, and and heartbreak. Beautiful. The compilation features 24 tracks from bands associated with Nate's Harlan Records as well as several Plan-it X bands as well.

Nate Powell's newest book opens with snow falling:

A few large white dots against a background of black. The drawings close in on a house, well-banked by snow, a boy sitting on a couch. The boy begins a journey, his hand placed on a doorknob. After he leaves the house he begins to grow older. In the mountains one night the smoke from his fire announces "you're here." The smoke chases and catches him. A cartoon animal emerges from the gloom. "It's really not safe here," it says. The boy travels with the animal. It has many things to say. "I have a friend who only reads periodicals. He subscribes to 28 titles each month and hasn't read a book in three years. He feels so overwhelmed by the allure of modernity, like he'll miss what's just happening right now. And now. And now." A rhapsody on memory and the anticipation of the future dissolving into the receding waters of the past, Powell's graphic novel traces a journey of self-discovery and the uneasy realization that everything, eventually, disappears. However, underlying this realization is an almost cosmic hope that human interaction and history can transcend the corrosive effects of time.

New comics from Nate! In Please Release, Nate examines his job working with developmentally disabled adults, in a touching, non-clinical way. It's not technical, but tangible. As always, he links his personal life to the punk subculture that's shaped him. Scenes of sing-a-longs give way to a desire for something...more? These are stories of growing up, and finding meaning.

The highlight of the collection being a short comic detailing his weekend stint leading workshops on comics for six to fourteen year olds in the Gainesville Public Library. My favorite panel depicts a little boy holding up a picture he's drawn of a monster. The boy's word bubble reads, "It's actually a cyborg with a hydra inside it's mouth." Priceless.

That's what Nate does best; capture people in their most human moments. Here he succeeds, yet again.

OUT NOW!!! Nate Powell's (Soophie Nun Squad, Walkie Talkie, Conditions, Wonderful Broken Thing, Schwa Sound, Playground Messiah) intricate black & white art focuses on the terrors and pleasures of growing up. Poignantly plumbing the existential angst of youth, he invokes great coming-of-age novels with only a few dozen words. This book collects his self published zines and comics dating back to 1992, his first two graphic novels (Tiny Giants and It Disappears), and new work. These stories build vignette by vignette into a rich tableau of lofty dreams and Deep South disappointment, car crashes and love letters, first kisses and four-tracks. Powell's work is a reminder of the persistence of wonder against all odds. ISBN 0-9770557-9-5

This book is printed imperfectly so it's $8 instead of $18 with a coupon for a correct copy for an additional $10. We have scanned a few pages from both the originals and misprinted book.

Page 151: Original - Misprint ~ Page 173: Original - Misprint ~ Page 188: Original - Misprint

FINALLY REPRINTED CORRECTLY!!! Nate Powell's (Soophie Nun Squad, Boomfancy, Tiny Giants, It Disappears, Walkie Talkie, Conditions, Wonderful Broken Thing, Schwa Sound, Playground Messiah) intricate black & white art focuses on the terrors and pleasures of growing up. Poignantly plumbing the existential angst of youth, he invokes great coming-of-age novels with only a few dozen words. This book collects his self published zines and comics dating back to 1992, his first two graphic novels (Tiny Giants and It Disappears), and new work. These stories build vignette by vignette into a rich tableau of lofty dreams and Deep South disappointment, car crashes and love letters, first kisses and four-tracks. Powell's work is a reminder of the persistence of wonder against all odds. ISBN 978-1-934620-79-3

Read a great interview with Nate in Comics Reporter!

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This is the first anthology of work by well-known underground comic artist Nate Powell. With intricate, sometimes chaotic drawings, Powell examines the complications that come with passing from childhood into adulthood. His comics manage to recreate and capture the most elusive thing that begins to disppear as we grow older: wonder. His work offers us the dream that we might never grow old, and even if we do, youth is always within reach. The stories in Tiny Giants (spanning 1998-2002) weave in and out of each other, just as scenes do within the stories themselves; many of the stories were created in conjunction with each other and Tiny Giants serves as testament to that creative process. It?s personal, understated, and impressionistic, with clean stark blacks and whites and a penchant for the dignity of more "traditional" layout as a vehicle for narrative. Tiny Giants builds itself, vignette by vignette, into one interwoven family of lofty dreams and deep-south disappointment, car crashes and love letters, tear gas and four-tracks, faith and hope.

Amazing comics from Nate Powell! The comics by Nate are wonderfully drawn and take a few reads to really understand and appreciate, but their depth and beauty come out in these readings. His stories are funny, heartfelt, and cryptic. The art is detailed and alluring, while the stories are more cryptic and difficult. He captures the moods of the characters so well, without even having them speak, or have a narrative. Issue three is a beautiful, complex, layed piece of work. It's the first part of a two part series (ending with #4). His growth as a story teller and artist is completely apparent here, as he speaks of the loneliness and awkwardness of growing up in and outside of the punk community. The moment I finished this for the first time I flipped to the first page again to read for a second time. Hands down one of the best pieces of art I've seen from the punk community. The stories run the gamut of interesting to making you laugh out loud. Nate is an excellent penciller and tells a good story. (Christupher)

Amazing comics from Nate Powell! The comics by Nate are wonderfully drawn and take a few reads to really understand and appreciate, but their depth and beauty come out in these readings. His stories are funny, heartfelt, and cryptic. The art is detailed and alluring, while the stories are more cryptic and difficult. He captures the moods of the characters so well, without even having them speak, or have a narrative. Issue three is a beautiful, complex, layed piece of work. It's the first part of a two part series (ending with #4). His growth as a story teller and artist is completely apparent here, as he speaks of the loneliness and awkwardness of growing up in and outside of the punk community. The moment I finished this for the first time I flipped to the first page again to read for a second time. Hands down one of the best pieces of art I've seen from the punk community. The stories run the gamut of interesting to making you laugh out loud. Nate is an excellent penciller and tells a good story. (Christupher)

Amazing comics from Nate Powell! The comics by Nate are wonderfully drawn and take a few reads to really understand and appreciate, but their depth and beauty come out in these readings. His stories are funny, heartfelt, and cryptic. The art is detailed and alluring, while the stories are more cryptic and difficult. He captures the moods of the characters so well, without even having them speak, or have a narrative. Issue three is a beautiful, complex, layed piece of work. It's the first part of a two part series (ending with #4). His growth as a story teller and artist is completely apparent here, as he speaks of the loneliness and awkwardness of growing up in and outside of the punk community. The moment I finished this for the first time I flipped to the first page again to read for a second time. Hands down one of the best pieces of art I've seen from the punk community. The stories run the gamut of interesting to making you laugh out loud. Nate is an excellent penciller and tells a good story. (Christupher)

Amazing comics from Nate Powell! The comics by Nate are wonderfully drawn and take a few reads to really understand and appreciate, but their depth and beauty come out in these readings. His stories are funny, heartfelt, and cryptic. The art is detailed and alluring, while the stories are more cryptic and difficult.

Issue Four concludes--if rather inconclusively--the "Satellite Worlds" arc Powell began in Issue Three. The intertwined threads of narrative take alternate turns of surreality, apocalyptic fear, wry humor, and poignant immediacy. A young cartoonist sees death, and later finds his body temporarily evaporated as he hammers at a typewriter. Dysfunctional lovebirds fight over millet. A boy in a cape catches fish by holding out his hand. Gorgeous, delicate, this comic works its way into your muscles. (Rosemary)