Tiny Giants

Tiny Giants is a collection of comics by the underground cartoonist Nate Powell, gathered as his first anthology. Its pieces circle around the moment when childhood gives way to adulthood, and the sense of wonder that tends to fade along the way. Powell's drawings are dense and sometimes restless, yet they hold onto that feeling and set it in front of the reader. Short, quiet vignettes accumulate into a single family portrait with roots in the Deep South. Dreams run up against hard, everyday disappointment, and moments of sudden danger sit beside small tender gestures, questions of belief and hope. Illustrated throughout, the book works more like a mosaic than a straight narrative, inviting readers to piece together its emotional whole.