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Big Nate follows the adventures and misadventures of Nate Wright, an incompetent, spirited, and rebellious sixth-grader. He has three best friends, Francis, Teddy, and Dee Dee who occasionally get in trouble with him. Other characters include a variety of teachers and students at Nate’s school, Public School 38. Nate hates social studies teacher Mr...
Nate Wright: The comic strip's main character. Nate is a C-grade student in sixth grade and 11-and-a-half years old, a talented cartoonist, drummer, and chess player. He also believes he is a natur...Martin Earl "Marty" Wright: Nate's father, a bald, overweight divorcé who lost his job in the eighth novel of the series (eventually getting another one). Like his son, he is somewhat clueless abou...Ellen Wright: Nate's fifteen-year-old sister who is older by four years. Unlike Nate, Ellen is responsible and hardworking and loves cats and figure-skating, and egg salad. Nate is always compared...Francis Butthurst Pope: Nate's #1 friend, Francis is very intelligent, and this upsets his friends from time to time. He has a gap between his teeth and lets people bully him often. Nate and Franci...Enslave the Mollusk
Enslave the Mollusk (ETM) is a garage band featured in Big Nate. It features Nate as backing vocalist and drummer, with best friends Francis on electric guitar and Teddy on keyboard, as well as Artur as lead vocalist. Chad is the band's roadie. Enslave the Mollusk had a big role in Big Nate the Musical. They performed 3 times: twice during the In The Zone novel when P.S 38 was starting a fitness zone but the first time Artur wasn't there because he quit the band, but eventually rejoined by th...
Femme Fatality
Femme Fatality is Nate's favorite super-hero comic. The images are never shown, but there were a few appearances of the eponymous character, as a life-size cardboard cut-out in a 2002 comic and as a cosplay actor visiting Klassic Komix in 2004. The character is highly suggestive, judging from the reaction of Nate and most of the other male characters (including adults). One comic claimed that she was wearing a skin tight tube top and leathermini-shorts. Some of the girls show exasperation ove...
P.S. 38
P.S. 38 is the middle school Nate and his friends attend and is where most of the comics take place. The school is noted to be over 100 years old and is considerably run down, but was remodeled in Big Nate: Lives It Upafter a painting by local folk artist Granny Peppers was found to be worth a lot of money.
Video game
Since February 12, 2009, the online role-playing video game Poptropica by Jeff Kinney has featured a "Big Nate Island" as one of the game's "islands", in which the player must problem-solve through game quest scenarios, centering on a problem that the player must resolve by going through multiple obstacles, collecting and using items, talking to various characters, and completing goals, written and illustrated by a returning Lincoln Peirce.
Musical
In May 2013, a stage musical adaptation of the comic strip debuted at the Adventure Theatre MTC in Maryland. The production's story centers on Nate, who tries to enter his school's Battle of the Bands competition but must try to avoid getting anymore detentions, as too many would disqualify his band from competing. Critical reception for the musical has been positive.
Television series adaptation
On February 19, 2020, it was announced that Big Nate would receive a 26-episode animated TV adaptation, which was slated to air on Nickelodeon in September 2021 but was delayed to 2022. In December 2021, the voice cast was announced, as was that the series would instead be for Paramount+.It would eventually air on Nickelodeon on September 5, 2022.
Big Nate is an American animated television series developed by Mitch Watson and based on the comic strip and book series of the same name by Lincoln Peirce. It follows the adventures of the titular protagonist, alongside his friends, in sixth grade. The executive producers are Mitch Watson and John Cohen.
No. OverallNo. In SeasonTitle [13] [14] [15]Directed By11"The Legend of the Gunting"Kimberly Jo Mills & Jim Mortensen22"Go Nate, It's Your Birthday"Jeff DeGrandis & Jim Mortensen33"Valentine's Day of Horror"Kyle Neswald44"CATastrophe"Jeff DeGrandis & Jim MortensenBig Nate is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce and distributed by NEA since January 7, 1991. The strip revolves around an eleven-year-old named Nate Wright, a radical rebel in the sixth grade, his school friends, teachers, and his enemies.
Big Nate: Created by Mitch Watson. With Ben Giroux, Daniel Mk Cohen, Arnie Pantoja, Bryce Charles. Follows the adventures of titular protagonist, alongside his friends, in sixth grade.
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Big Nate (Series) Lincoln Peirce Author Jean-François Ménard Translator (2017)
Apr 4, 2021 · View the comic strip for Big Nate by cartoonist Lincoln Peirce created April 04, 2021 available on GoComics.com.
