L Nathan Butler

Nate Butler
Born	L Nathan (Nate) Butler Meriden, Connecticut, US
Known for	Comics, Cartooning, Publishing

Nate Butler (born February 1, 1954) is an American cartoonist and writer/illustrator of comics who is internationally recognized and acknowledged for his long career and contributions to both mainstream and Christian-themed comics. His full name is L Nathan Butler, with no period after the "L" (which is not an initial for a name, just as with Harry S Truman), although the name itself is a variation of the Hebrew name Elnathan, which was also the name of a multiple-greats grandfather of Butler.

Nate Butler was born in Meriden, Connecticut, and grew up in Cromwell, Connecticut. His early inspirations for writing and drawing were Dick Tracy, Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), and Tom Terrific. Butler made his first sale of a written article to the Middletown Press at the age of 17, in 1971. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975.

Butler began his full-time professional career at the Albuquerque News/Modern Press organization in 1975, starting in the production department and finishing as Advertising Art Director. He won an E.H. Shaffer award from the New Mexico Press Association (named in honor of former Albuquerque Journal editor, E.H. Shaffer) and was awarded the Master Printers of America Certificate of Craftsmanship for his work during that time. He self-published two tabloid-size Desperate Planet comic books in 1976 and 1977. In 1979 Butler opened his own studio and began freelancing.

Butler experienced a spiritual conversion to Christianity in late 1979. Soon after he met and married his wife Susan, and began to raise two step-daughters with her in 1981.

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