Fall Through: A Graphic Novel
By (Author) Nate Powell
Illustrated by Nate Powell
Abrams
Abrams ComicArts
8th February 2024
United States
General
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Science fiction
Popular music
741.5973
Hardback
192
Width 241mm, Height 165mm, Spine 23mm
324g
At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guidedlargely against their willby vocalist Dianas powerful spell embedded into their song Fall Through.
Nate Powells Fall Through captures the feeling of ephemera. Like notes reverberating in the air, Powell illustrates the intangible. He showcases the stunning power of art to make sense of a fleeting movement. The fleeting nature of love and loss, life and death. * Irene Velentzas, Comics Journal *
Nate Powell has been one of our finest cartoonists for a while, and with Fall Through, he delivers an emotional and visceral tour de force. Youll fall in love with these characters and feel like youre on the road and on stage with them, feeling what they feel. Youll feel more alive. Its cathartic, powerful. An absolute masterpiece. * Jeff Lemire, creator of Sweet Tooth and Essex County *
Fall Through is magical. It somehow conjures the fever dream of memories I have of my years spent playing in punk basements, sleeping on floors, driving for hours to play for a few minutes, falling in love with music and people, turning into someone new along the way. Careening in a ride you created but can barely control. * Hrishikesh Hirway, host of the Song Exploder podcast *
Nate Powell is a National Book Awardwinning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Save It for Later; civil rights icon John Lewiss Run: Book One, Come Again, Two Dead, and its follow-up Any Empire; and Swallow Me Whole.
Powells work has received four Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and multiple ALA and YALSA distinctions. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS, and CNN. As for his music career, Powell was introduced to the hardcore punk community in 1991, played over 500 shows across North America and Europe in various bands, including underground legends Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, and managed the do-it-yourself label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.