Nate Powell Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

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#8. Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

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#9. In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next.

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#10. There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

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#11. There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

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#12. The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.

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#13. Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

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#14. Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!

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#15. 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.

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