Lincoln Peirce

Lincoln Peirce is an American cartoonist, animator and author best known for creating the Big Nate comic strip. He also wrote and illustrated the Big Nate novels for young readers, starting with Big Nate: In a Class by Himself and continuing with Big Nate Strikes Again. Born in 1963, Peirce has written animated shorts for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, and created the animated series based on Big Nate, which premiered on Paramount+.