In Big Nate, Nate has decided to cash in on the market for romance novels by writing a bodice-ripper set in the War of 1812.By coincidence, yesterday I got to see the printer’s dummy for my historical novel, aimed at middle-school kids like Nate, which is also set in the War of 1812. And I […]
I suspect that the kids who had Lincoln Peirce as an art teacher or coach in high school had a pretty good time. He seems to have a good sense of their lives.Big Nate is immensely popular with middle-school kids, and I suspect it’s because Peirce remembers what it was like, but, rather than totally […]
Having proposed a new mural for the school, Big Nate is now getting a lesson on art and the real world. Nate, the lesson you are learning will follow you for life. Kind of like “Groundhog Day,” only, while it keeps happening over and over, you’ll keep getting older as it does. Much older much […]
A quick return to “Big Nate,” because, having escaped with his life from Junior Lifesaving training, Nate has now joined the summer book club down at the library. He’s there for the snacks, but, as you see, he’s about to read a book.Or pretend to. We’ll see.At some point, perhaps in just a few weeks, […]
Big Nate offers a reminder of what middle school was really like, for those of us who didn’t actually go to middle school but remember junior high. Or, in my case, college, where there was a 7-to-1 ratio of men to women and freshman year was essentially futile. And very much like middle school.But I […]
Lincoln Peirce, the cartoonist behind Big Nate, recently sat on a panel at the Maine Comics Arts Festival with Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) and Corey Pandolph (Bark Eater Lake/The Elderberries). The subject discussed was around the subject â??Surviving as a Print Cartoonistâ? which you read more about on Mike Petersonâ??s â??Nellie Blogâ??.Iâ??m a fan of […]