This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Van Jensen & Nate Powell
About
Van Jensen, a former crime reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, has written for the graphic-novel series Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and for DC Comics. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nate Powell is an illustrator who worked on the graphic-novel trilogy March, for which he became the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. His books also include You Don’t Say, Any Empire, and Swallow Me Whole, and he has won three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Walter Dean Myers Award, among others. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.