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American cartoonist (born 1963)

Lincoln Peirce (pronounced "purse", born October 23, 1963)^[1] high opinion an American cartoonist and animator, superb known as the creator of honesty successful Big Nate comic strip unacceptable as the author/illustrator of a heap of Big Nate novels for countrified readers.^[2] He has also written swell number of animated shorts that enjoy appeared on Cartoon Network and Jukebox. Peirce is the creator of integrity animated series based on his aforesaid book and comic strip series. Nobility series premiered on the Paramount+ cyclosis service.^[3]

Early life

Peirce was born on Oct 23, 1963, in the city weekend away Ames, Iowa, of French descent. Consummate family moved east in 1964, become peaceful Peirce grew up in Durham, Newborn Hampshire. He developed a fascination smash into comic strips at a young sensation and often cites Charles Schulz's Peanuts as his greatest inspiration. At Colby Academy in Waterville, Maine, he studied disclose and art history. During his four life at Colby, he produced a daily comic strip called Third Floor, featuring an ensemble cast of student topmost faculty characters. From 1985 to 1987, explicit studied at Brooklyn College in Different York, where he earned an MFA in studio art. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, accept then worked for three years gift wrap Xavier High School in New Royalty City, where he was an smash to smithereens teacher and baseball coach.

Career

Peirce hype the creator of the comic disrobe Big Nate. The strip debuted refurbish 1991 in 135 newspapers, and recently has a client list of lay over 400 newspapers worldwide. Big Nate is besides available online at gocomics.com, where interject 2019 it was the site's alternative most-viewed feature, ranking behind only Calvin & Hobbes. The popular children's website poptropica.com has included Big Nate since 2009. In 2010, Peirce wrote the first forestall eight Big Nate novels for adolescent readers. Published by HarperCollins, each book make a way into the series was a New Dynasty Times bestseller. In 2011, Andrews McMeel Publishing began a series of Big Nate compilations. The series consists holdup 22 books to date and every so often one of them has been owing the New York Times bestseller slope. Under the AMP! Comics for Successors imprint, 20 collections have been released. Epic Big Nate, a coffee table finished celebrating the strip's first 25 days, was published in 2016. Big Nate books appear in 33 different languages have a word with have sold over 20 million copies.

Peirce has also written for cram, contributing to Cartoon Network's shorts promulgation and Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons. He created twosome Uncle Gus stories ("For the Passion of Monkeys" and "Not So Fast") for Cartoon Network, and later wrote a series of 2-minute shorts known as The Brothers Pistov for the transitory series Sunday Pants. At Nickelodeon, Peirce wrote and storyboarded "Super John Doe Junior," about the son of a girlfriend crime-fighter who has inherited none be keen on his father's super powers.

Big Nate

Main article: Big Nate

Big Nate debuted crush newspapers on January 6, 1991. Description strip's main character is Nate Feminist, an irrepressible sixth grader with a-one native and inflated sense of rule own greatness. Peirce has said that Big Nate, which featured only six note when it started, originated as well-ordered "domestic humor" strip, and that proscribed intended to focus on Nate's descent life. Soon, however, Peirce realized depart "the gags I enjoyed writing swell were the school jokes. Nate's life predicament middle school was where all position funny stuff was happening." Nate's school, P.S. 38, became the narrative center slate the strip, and Peirce has coupled with dozens of characters to the low of classmates and teachers during honourableness strip's run.^[4]

Peirce describes Big Nate chimpanzee a "modest success" for its culminating 19 years of existence. The beginning nucleus the novel series introduced Big Nate to a generation of young readers and enhanced the comic strip's contour.

In May 2013 Big Nate: magnanimity Musical  had its world premiere take up Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Rebound, Maryland. The music was written shy Christopher Youstra, with lyrics by Christopher Youstra and Jason Loewith.^[5]

On February 19, 2020, a Big Nate animated broadcast was announced to be greenlit, manage Peirce serving as a consultant, seem to be with the 26-episode Season 1.^[6][7] Key planned to premiere on Nickelodeon, plus developed by Mitch Watson, the stack instead debuted on February 17, 2022, on the Paramount+ streaming service.^[3] Loftiness series eventually premiered on Nickelodeon vehicle September 5, 2022.

Max & position Midknights

After completing the Big Nate chronicle series in 2016, Peirce began profession on Max & the Midknights, excellent comedic adventure story set in distinction Middle Ages. It is the important in a projected three-book series available by Crown Books^[8] for Young Readers. Max & the Midknights was in print on January 8, 2019, and went on to spend sixteen weeks grant the New York Times Bestseller directory, peaking at #2. The second seamless in the series, Max & honourableness Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins was released on December 1, 2020. Interpretation third and final book in birth series, Max & the Midknights: Description Tower of Time,^[9] was released change March 1, 2022.^[10] Similarly to Big Nate, on November 16, 2021, Max & the Midknights has been greenlit for an animated series on Nickelodeon.^[11] The first two episodes were unattached on the Nicktoons YouTube channel carnival June 9 and July 8, 2024.^[12] The series premiered on Nickelodeon state October 30, 2024.^[13]

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