In 1991, Big Nate launched as a comic strip. Unlike the perfectly polished heroes of most children's books, Nate was messy, loud, convinced of his own genius, and regularly in detention. Readers fell in love with him anyway. Over the years, Peirce expanded Nate's world into over 40 novels, activity books, and a hit musical adaptation.
Peirce draws every strip by hand first, then inks and colors it digitally. His studio is filled with vintage arcade posters and stacks of rejected gags. When asked how he keeps Nate fresh after three decades, he shrugs. "Nate never grows up," he says. "But neither does the kid inside any of us who thinks, just once, everything might go his way." big nate author
Lincoln Peirce has been drawing comics since he was a kid doodling in the margins of his notebooks. Growing up in New Hampshire, he never imagined those scribbles would one day turn into a bestselling series. After college, he tried his hand at political cartoons, but his true voice emerged when he created a rebellious, self-confident sixth-grader named Nate Wright. In 1991, Big Nate launched as a comic strip