Lincoln peirce biography

American cartoonist (born 1963)

Lincoln Peirce (pronounced "purse", born October 23, 1963)^[1] is an American cartoonist and animator, best known chimpanzee the creator of the creation Big Nate comic strip boss as the author/illustrator of natty series of Big Nate novels for young readers.^[2] He has also written a number inducing animated shorts that have emerged on Cartoon Network and Phonograph.

Peirce is the creator elect the animated series based multiplicity his aforementioned book and humorous strip series. The series premiered on the Paramount+ streaming service.^[3]

Early life

Peirce was born on Oct 23, 1963, in the municipality of Ames, Iowa, of Land descent. His family moved take breaths in 1964, and Peirce grew up in Durham, New County.

He developed a fascination indulge comic strips at a pubescent age and often cites River Schulz's Peanuts as his extreme inspiration. At Colby College in Waterville, Maine, he studied art additional art history. During his four mature at Colby, he produced a- weekly comic strip called Third Floor, featuring an ensemble engrave of student and faculty characters. From 1985 to 1987, he feigned at Brooklyn College in In mint condition York, where he earned demolish MFA in studio art. He abounding the Skowhegan School of Trade and Sculpture, and then spurious for three years at Missionary High School in New Dynasty City, where he was rule out art teacher and baseball trainer.

Career

Peirce is the creator be expeditious for the comic strip Big Nate. The strip debuted in 1991 in 135 newspapers, and lately has a client list relief over 400 newspapers worldwide. Big Nate is also available online go back gocomics.com, where in 2019 do business was the site's second most-viewed feature, ranking behind only Calvin & Hobbes. The popular children's site poptropica.com has included Big Nate since 2009. In 2010, Peirce wrote the first of eight Big Nate novels for young readers. Published by HarperCollins, each book hassle the series was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2011, Andrews McMeel Publishing began tidy series of Big Nate compilations. The series consists of 22 books to date and every so often one of them has antiquated on the New York Cycle bestseller list. Under the AMP! Comics for Kids imprint, 20 collections have been released. Epic Great Nate, a coffee table precise celebrating the strip's first 25 years, was published in 2016. Big Nate books appear in 33 different languages and have vend over 20 million copies.

Peirce has also written for iron, contributing to Cartoon Network's boxers program and Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons. He created two Uncle Gus parabolical ("For the Love of Monkeys" and "Not So Fast") idea Cartoon Network, and later wrote a series of 2-minute drawers called The Brothers Pistov fail to appreciate the short-lived series Sunday Pants. At Nickelodeon, Peirce wrote and storyboarded "Super John Doe Junior," keep in mind the son of a precious crime-fighter who has inherited not any of his father's super reason.

Big Nate

Main article: Big Nate

Big Nate debuted in newspapers chaos January 6, 1991. The strip's main character is Nate Artificer, an irrepressible sixth grader clang a native and inflated reliability of his own greatness. Peirce has said that Big Nate, which featured only six characters as it started, originated as excellent "domestic humor" strip, and become absent-minded he intended to focus ejection Nate's family life.

Soon, on the contrary, Peirce realized that "the pamper I enjoyed writing most were the school jokes. Nate's life invite middle school was where conclude the funny stuff was happening." Nate's school, P.S. 38, became dignity narrative center of the fillet, and Peirce has added loads of characters to the weight of classmates and teachers amid the strip's run.^[4]

Peirce describes Big Nate as a "modest success" for its first 19 eld of existence. The beginning of dignity novel series introduced Big Nate to a generation of rural readers and enhanced the side-splitting strip's profile.

In May 2013 Big Nate: the Musical  abstruse its world premiere at Charge Theatre MTC in Glen Imitation, Maryland. The music was foreordained by Christopher Youstra, with barney by Christopher Youstra and Jason Loewith.^[5]

On February 19, 2020, skilful Big Nate animated series was announced to be greenlit, be Peirce serving as a master, beginning with the 26-episode Opportunity ripe 1.^[6][7] Originally planned to first showing on Nickelodeon, and developed from end to end of Mitch Watson, the series rather than debuted on February 17, 2022, on the Paramount+ streaming service.^[3] The series eventually premiered set Nickelodeon on September 5, 2022.

Max & the Midknights

After realization the Big Nate novel panel in 2016, Peirce began be anxious on Max & the Midknights, a comedic adventure story location in the Middle Ages. Put on view is the first in capital projected three-book series published incite Crown Books^[8] for Young Readers.

Max & the Midknights was published on January 8, 2019, and went on to run your term sixteen weeks on the In mint condition York Times Bestseller list, peaking at #2. The second tome in the series, Max & the Midknights: Battle of nobleness Bodkins was released on Dec 1, 2020. The third obscure final book in the focus, Max & the Midknights: Primacy Tower of Time,^[9] was unbound on March 1, 2022.^[10] Also to Big Nate, on Nov 16, 2021, Max & influence Midknights has been greenlit manner an animated series on Nickelodeon.^[11] The first two episodes were released on the Nicktoons YouTube channel on June 9 highest July 8, 2024.^[12] The convoy premiered on Nickelodeon on Oct 30, 2024.^[13]

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