User blog:Ethanimation/Lincoln Peirce

Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire, where he attended Oyster River High School. When the time came for him to move up to college, he attended Colby College in Maine, where he created a weekly comic strip called "Third Floor" for the school newspaper. He later earned a graduate degree from Brooklyn College and also studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He taught art and coached baseball at Xavier High School, a boys high school in New York City, for three years before moving to Maine in 1992 and started writing Big Nate.

Peirce is the creator of the comic strip Big Nate, which debuted in 1991 and appears in 200 newspapers in the US and online daily at GoComics and Poptropica. In the Netherlands his books called Niek de Groot. He has also written several animated shorts for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. A fan and collector of classic country music, Peirce also hosts a local radio show devoted to honky tonk and western swing on WMPG.

In addition to the Big Nate comic strip, Peirce is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Big Nate novel series. His Big Nate books have been featured on Good Morning America and in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.