The Nib magazine Power issue

As multiple crises unfold, from a pandemic and recession to police repression and a power-mad president, The Nib takes a look at power in all its forms.

The Nib’s long-awaited Power issue is now on sale. With a cover by Richie Pope and contributions from more than 30 cartoonists on power dynamics from the personal to the systemic.

In this issue:

• An illustrated interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates on racism and representation in storytelling.

• Inequity in the time of pandemic — profiles on four very different people affected by this crisis.

• Dispatches on the protests in Puerto Rico, a cop convention, and the power of gender fluidity.

• A feature on how the power company itself must be reformed.

• Read the adventures of Black Power Man and watch Trump meet a gruesome end that we would like to emphasize is legally protected satire!

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The full lineup for the magazine is one of our strongest yet. The Features for this issue are as follows:

• Pecking Order by Nate Powell on Nazi cosplay.

• Roots to Fruits by Mariah-Rose Marie on what a DNA test can and cannot reveal about your racial heritage. 

• In/Vulnerable by Thi Bui and the reporting team at Reveal on inequity in the pandemic.

• Re-Organize by Sophie Yanow on the history and reemergence of unionizing.

• Powerless by Vreni Stollberger, Sarah Mirk, and Joyce Rice on the literal power company that controls the electric grid.

With Dispatches, Strips, and other contributions from:

• For The Response: Alyssa Andrews, Taylor Crockett, Max Loh, and Ally Shwed on feeling powerless.

• Power stats by Xulin Wang, Archive editorial cartoons curated by Warren Bernard, and The Nib interview illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels.

• Dispatches from Rosa Colón Guerra, Andy Warner, Luke Healy, Trinidad Escobar, Bianca Xunise, Dorian Alexander with Robin Tess, and Mathew Francis with Maki Naro.

• Strips by Gemma Correll, Joey Alison Sayers, Charis JB, Matt Bors, Michael DeForge, Kasia Babis, Matt Lubchansky, Ben Passmore, and Eric Haven.

• With illustrations by Tom Scioli, Colleen Tighe, Chelsea Saunders, and Mark Kaufman.