Please join us as we welcome Lincoln Peirce when he appears next September at the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning running from Thursday, September 25th through Saturday, September 27th of 2014.
“Some people call it a kids’ strip,” says Lincoln Peirce of Big Nate, the comic feature he created
in 1991, “and some don’t. To me,
the labels aren’t important. What
really matters is that it’s funny.”
Big Nate follows
the adventures of Nate Wright, an
energetic sixth-grade boy whose larger-than-life personality often lands him in
hot water with his classmates and teachers. “Nate’s school life is at the center of the strip,” Lincoln
says. “And schools can be
hilarious places.” Big Nate currently appears in over 300
newspapers, and in 2013 ranked among the ten most-read features on gocomics.com
In 2010, Lincoln’s
characters reached a whole new audience when he began writing and illustrating Big Nate novels for children. Each of the six titles has been a New York Times Bestseller; the seventh
book in the series, Big Nate Lives It Up,
will be published by Harper Collins in March of 2015. There have also been numerous compilations from Andrews
McMeel, including Big Nate: I Can’t Take It! And Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike.
When he isn’t cartooning, Lincoln hosts a weekly radio show
devoted to vintage country music. He
also plays ice hockey, enjoys cryptic crossword puzzles, and doesn’t understand
his computer. He and his
wife Jessica live in the great little city of Portland, Maine, and have two
children.
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