Big Nate Goes Sunday Only, But No Daily Reruns

D. D. Degg Published: April 20, 2026 Updated: April 21, 2026 1 minute 5 comments

Lincoln Peirce has announced that beginning June 14, 2026 the Big Nate comic strip will run Sunday only.

*_{Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce – June 13, 2026}*

Here’s part of the final Big Nate daily comic strip, which will run on June 13th. No more Nate on Monday thru Saturday, but there’s still going to be a Sunday page. Thanks for reading, everybody!

This is not an unexpected development. Five months ago Lincoln discussed Big Nate with Travis Lazarczyk at Colby News. The interview ended with this:

Peirce said he can see a day coming when he’ll semi-retire the Big Nate strip, making just a Sunday feature. After almost 35 years, it’s harder to keep the series fresh.

“I still feel like I have a lot of stories to tell. I just think as far as Big Nate goes, you can only tell so many jokes about sixth grade,” Peirce said. “There are things I return to over and over again, and the challenge is to find fresh ways. Ok, how am I going to make him getting his school picture taken funny this year?”

Props for not syndicating daily reruns. That should open up a number of daily comics page spots for others.

Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce

Sundays: January 6, 1991 – ongoing

Dailies: January 7, 1991 – June 13, 2026

*Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce – January 7, 1991 (the first daily)*

Big Nate comic strips have been collected in 40 print volumes and 18 ebook editions, plus more!

This item has been updated with the Colby News interview.

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Mike Peterson (admin)

Good man. My local paper now runs a dozen strips. Six are zombie strips, five are reruns. Pearls is the only strip featuring new material by the original artist. Shameful.

Grant

Big Nate probably runs in about 350 newspapers. Assuming about half of those are weekday spaces, that’s 125 spaces open. A lot of them are going to be from Advance, look out for what happens there.

Atanwat

Peirce can afford to be magnanimous, Big Nate has a long list of successful derivative products that probably generate more income than publishing rerun strips would.

Christine Lehman

Not sure what you’re on about. Lots of zombie strips with “a long line of successful derivative products” keep running for decades, generating income, and taking up space. So yeah, it actually is pretty “magnanimous”.

Apr 21,2026
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Stacy Curtis

Thank you for sharing “Big Nate” with us. You’ve done a tremendous job.
And THANK YOU for not running reruns. That means a lot. The comics pages need to be fresh and we need to see new comic strips. You rock for stepping out and giving another cartoonist an opportunity to be a part of the comics pages.

Mike Peterson (admin)

Good man. My local paper now runs a dozen strips. Six are zombie strips, five are reruns. Pearls is the only strip featuring new material by the original artist. Shameful.

Apr 20,2026
Grant

Big Nate probably runs in about 350 newspapers. Assuming about half of those are weekday spaces, that’s 125 spaces open. A lot of them are going to be from Advance, look out for what happens there.

Apr 20,2026
Atanwat

Peirce can afford to be magnanimous, Big Nate has a long list of successful derivative products that probably generate more income than publishing rerun strips would.

Apr 20,2026
1. Christine Lehman
  
  Not sure what you’re on about. Lots of zombie strips with “a long line of successful derivative products” keep running for decades, generating income, and taking up space. So yeah, it actually is pretty “magnanimous”.
  
  Apr 21,2026
Stacy Curtis

Thank you for sharing “Big Nate” with us. You’ve done a tremendous job.
And THANK YOU for not running reruns. That means a lot. The comics pages need to be fresh and we need to see new comic strips. You rock for stepping out and giving another cartoonist an opportunity to be a part of the comics pages.

Apr 21,2026

Big Nate Goes Sunday Only, But No Daily Reruns

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