- Big Nate
Infobox comic strip
title= Big Nate
author=Lincoln Peirce
url= http://www.comics.com/comics/bignate/
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status= Ongoing
first = 1991
syndicate = Newspaper Enterprise Association
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comic strip written and illustrated byLincoln Peirce . The strip revolves around Nate Wright, a rebellious sixth-grader, and his classmates and teachers. Most of the strips are set in P.S. 38, the middle school where Nate is a student. Nate is portrayed as an intelligent boy with little interest in studies or conforming to standards. Because of this, he often ends up in detention. Some of the staff at the school include Mrs. Godfrey (Nate'ssocial studies teacher and chief faculty nemesis), art teacher Mr. Rosa, Principal Nichols, Mrs. Shipulski, and Mrs. Czerwicki.Big Nate's best friends include Francis Pope and Teddy Ortiz. In recent strips they formed a
garage band named Enslave the Mollusk.Characters
*Nate Wright - Hero of the strip. "Nate Wright" is his full name.
*Dad - Nate's middle-aged, single father. Plays golf, albeit very poorly, and will not let Nate have a dog, despite Nate's incessant requests.
*Ellen - Nate's fifteen-year-old sister. Self absorbed and constantly at odds with Nate about, well, almost everything.
*Mrs. Godfrey - Nate's ultimate nemesis, his social studies teacher.
*Francis Pope - One of Nate's best friends and part of his music band. Francis is a cat person, and often expresses the superiority of cats to dogs, much to Nate's chagrin.
*Teddy Ortiz - Another of Nate's best friends and part of his band. He isAfrican-American .
*Jenny - Nate's classmate since grade one. She is his biggest crush. She, however, does not have any interest in Nate.
*Artur - A very intelligent and very well liked exchange student in Nate's class. Jenny's liking for Artur, and Artur's ability to beat Nate at chess, makes him arch rival to Nate. Artur speaks somewhat broken English as a second language, and is very innocent, gentle, and disingenuous. He regards Nate as a friend, and is generally unaware of Nate's dislike of him.
*Mr. Rosa - Nate's art teacher. Mr. Rosa is a soft spoken, optimistic, and mild-mannered man. As a result, Nate enjoys a lot of freedom in art class. He also enjoys to sketch pictures of his teachers.
*School Picture Guy - Not only showing up every year as the school picture photographer, this character often shows up in unexpected places doing odd jobs such as a birthday clown or a school board meeting reporter. School Picture Guy often has some amusing nuggets of wisdom about the job he is doing, or a nugget of wisdom for whatever is on Nate's mind at the moment.Enslave the Mollusk
Enslave the Mollusk (EtM) is a
garage band featured in "Big Nate". It features Big Nate, as vocalist anddrummer , with best friends Francis on electricguitar , and Teddy onkeyboards andlyricist . EtM appears to be arock music band although they only have two original songs, "Hot Cross Buns" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep." They do play cover music though.About the Author
Lincoln Peirce is a cartoon artist from Portland,
Maine . He lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. He also made a book called "Add More Babes!" which has his works.Notes
*Big Nate is a soon-to-be island on
Poptropica .
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