He graduated in 2000 after receiving the Outstanding Cartooning Student award and the Shakespeare & Company Books Self-Publishing Grant, with which he funded the first issue of Walkie Talkie. Beginning in 2005, while at SVA, he would send Chris Staros and Brett Warnock, the founders of Top Shelf Productions, copies of every book he made. He transferred to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City, where he majored in Cartooning. He graduated from 1996, and briefly attended George Washington University in Washington, DC. That same year he founded the punk rock band Soophie Nun Squad with high school friends. Powell attended North Little Rock High School and began self-publishing comics in 1992. The child of an Air Force officer, Powell's family moved often, living in Montana and Alabama before returning to Little Rock. Powell was born Jin Little Rock, Arkansas. Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, which received the 2016 National Book Award, making Powell the first cartoonist to receive the award. He illustrated the March trilogy, an autobiographical series written by U.S. His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won an Ignatz Award and Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel. Nathan Lee Powell (born 1978) is an American graphic novelist and musician.
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