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Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, the daily and Sunday comic strip distributed by NEA since 1991. Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his family and teachers with his sarcasm.
To draw Big Nate, Peirce relies on memories of his own childhood and the experiences he collected teaching art at a New York City high school. Peirce occasionally turns his pen over to his creation, and readers get to see life through Nate's eyes as he doodles his adventures in his notebook. The Big Nate book collections include Add More Babes! from Topper Books (1992) and three e-books from ipicturebooks.com: Big Nate Makes a Splash (the Sunday Strips), Pray for a Firedrill and Dibs on This Chair. More than 60 kids participated in the first-ever Big Nate Chess Tournament in 2000 in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Chess Center.
Born in Iowa, Peirce grew up in New Hampshire and began creating his own comic strips in the sixth grade. Peirce is the creator of an animated cartoon pilot for the Cartoon Network called "For the Love of Monkeys." Peirce holds an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and a B.A. in Art from Colby College, where he created a comic called "Third Floor." He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Plus Licens represents United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association for syndication rights to Big Nate in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
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