Sounds of Your Name collects Nate Powell's zines and comics, including his first two books, Tiny Giants and It Disappears. His intricate, sometimes chaotic drawings examine the complications that come with passing from childhood into adulthood. Renderings of friends and family scattered across the country paint tender, sweaty, and memory-soaked portraits of small town life and beyond. Nate addresses the uneasy existential inquiries that bloom in youth and invokes all the elements of great coming of age novels with only a few dozen words.

He captures that most elusive thing that disappears with age: wonder. If most people spend their entire lives longing for past episodes from their youth, then Nate addresses that longing, covering his pages with lost wonder, and offering it, wholeheartedly, back to us. His work offers the hope we might never grow old, and that even if we do, our dreams are always within reach. The power of his work is a reminder of the persistance of joy.

"In between the great adventures of life, the huge days when lives end, begin, or change forever; there are all the small days. The tiny moments of life, those make up our consciousness. You have spent hours picking at foul food or staring into a mirror to look at a deformity of yours (real or imagined) or even staring into the darkness of your bedroom trying to make out a shape just outside the light. Nate Powell takes all those moments and slams them into one book called Tiny Giants and you should be buying this book, right now . . .
If you're trying to get someone new into graphic novels this book may be just the thing you need. Someone who reads McSweeney's or subscribes to Harper's but has no graphic literature in their life will be bowled over by the beauty and grace of Powell's style. There are simply too few superlatives for this book." -Bookslut
"This Nate Powell wittily, even surgically, cuts to the bone. Observant, intimate cartooning, anchored with a nice, punchy use of black. Good comics." -Frank Miller, creator of Sin City