Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

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From Nate Powell, the National Book Awardwinning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protestnow in paperback with sixteen pages of new materialIn seven interwoven comics essays, author and illustrator Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls "necessary protest." Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powells reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real-time while illustrating the award-winning trilogy Marchby Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generations preeminent historical account of nonviolent revolution in the civil rights movement. Powell highlights both the danger of normalized paramilitary symbols in consumer pop culture and the roles we play individually as we interact with our communities, families, and society at large. Each essay tracks Powells journey from the night of the electionpromising his four-year-old daughter that Trump will never win to the reality of the authoritarian presidency, protesting the administrations policies, and navigating the complications of teaching his children how to raise their own voices in a world that is becoming increasingly dangerous and more and more polarized. While six of the seven essays are new, unpublished work, Powell has also included "About Face," a comics essay first published by Popula Online that swiftly went viral and inspired him to write Save It for Later. The seventh and final essay was written after the 2020 presidential election, and examines the outcome of that contest in relation to the events of the last four years, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and global protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The updated paperback comes out just in time for the 2022 midterm elections and includes bonus content featuring a conversation between Powell and Derf Backderf, the New York Timesbestselling author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State, where they discuss the militarization of civilian spaces and the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection. As Powell moves between subjective and objective experiences raising his childrendepicted in their childhood innocence as imaginary anthropomorphic animalshe reveals the electrifying sense of trust and connection with neighbors and strangers in protest. He also explores how to equip young people with tools to best make their own noise as they grow up and help shape the direction and future of this country.

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"Save It For Later explores the space where political life intersects with the personal."--The Beat
"...much of this work feels like visual poetry...A virtuoso work of artistry with important content that might alienate some but powerfully stir others."--Booklist STARRED Review
"Save it for Later confronts this political era."--The Arkansas Times Magazine
"[Powell] asks readers not to forget, not to look away, but to remember what we can achieve when we come together. Save it for Later argues for solidarity in family, community, and across the nation now and for the future."

--PopMatters

"This is a gorgeously drawn, well articulated and powerful new work that you should all go read as soon as you can."--Comic Book Resources
"This sincere volume carries off parenting inspiration with gravitas."--Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
"Urgent and grittily rendered..."

--The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"While many graphic biographies and historical memoirs can feel inert, his dynamic line and talent for using the grammar of comics to shape drama and emotion, as well as action, are a standout... an absorbing reflection on intergenerational inheritance."

--The New York Times

Author Bio

Nate Powell is a National Book Awardwinning cartoonist whose work includes civil rights icon John Lewis historic March trilogy, Run: Book One, Come Again, Two Dead, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, and The Silence of Our Friends.Powell has also received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, two Ignatz Awards, and the Walter Dean Myers Award. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, CNN, and Free Speech TV. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana. You can visit him online at seemybrotherdance.org.