Big Nate and Friends

Big Nate: Comics #3

by Lincoln Peirce

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon!

Join Nate in this collection of his funniest moments, as he confronts the pressures and concerns of sixth grade with his classic hilarity.

Sixth-grader Nate Wright is on top of the world . . . with a little help from his friends! His best buddies, Francis and Teddy, stick with Nate through thick and thin—usually thin. They've seen it all. Nate's disastrous love life, his chess tournament trash talking, even his misguided attempt to be a "bad boy." Along the way, Nate and his pals are joined by Artur, the gentle exchange student who's popular with almost everyone. And don't forget Gina, the teacher's pet who gets an "A" for annoying. They're all here in this collection of cartoons, featuring highlights from Nate's most hilarious adventures.

Now in full-color!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Humor, Childrens, Middle Grade, Young Adult

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2011

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. Peirce writes the comic strip "Big Nate". Peirce's comic strip, Big Nate, is featured as an island on the famous children's website, Poptropica. Big Nate appears as the first cartoon on The Maine Sunday Telegram in the comics section.

He studied art at Colby College in Maine were he began cartooning. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before teaching art and coaching basketball at a New York highschool for 3 years. He currently plays hockey with "an old men's league" and describes it as his best sport as a child. In an interview with the Washington Post, Peirce stated that his last name is pronounced "purse" and is not a misspelling of "pierce."

Lincoln Peirce was a member of the "Surviving as a Print Cartoonist" Panel at the Maine Comics Art Festival with fellow cartoonists Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuri (Retail, Gill) and with Mike Lynch moderating. On the panel Lincoln revealed he is currently working with some animation and licensing projects including the addition of a Big Nate island to the online game Poptropica.

Reviews

[Nolan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my fifth time reading this book and this is a great book heres why. I think this is a great book because its funny and it was very well written. Why I rated it five stares. I rated it five stares because I love comics and because theres funny jokes like Hi butthead! says francis Hi ugly says! Nate Hi pizza face! says Francis Hi pencil neck! says Nate Hi fish breath! says Francis Hi pea brain! says Nate Hi geek boy! says francis and so on.

[Lance Janik · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked how nate always trys to be famous and he is funny because of that. Like seriusly he thinks he's the noogie king

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think the Big Nate books are very interesting and fun to read if you like the diary of a wimpy kid books you will like this book,join Nate and his crazy friends in middle school.

[Liam Robbins · Rating 4 out of 5]

if you like funny comic books this is the book for you.

[Mas5thgrade2012 · Rating 4 out of 5]

as usual, THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME!-Lazyman117

[Kenneth Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clever choices of comics.

[Sue Roraback · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wicked good book💩💩💩👪👪💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

[Brennan · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a great book and I've always liked the big Nate books but this was honestly my favorite it was so funny and classic and didn't seem like any of the other books.

[Samuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still good, but a little weaker than the first two books imo. Also, I swear there’s some repeat comic strips towards the end, but maybe I’m wrong idk.

[Alexander]

The book B​ig Nate And Friends​was a good book. Nate Wright is a 6th grader who is always getting into mischief. Between him and his two friends Teddy and Francis they have a good time a lot and pick on each other all the time. Francis is the smart friend of his who doesn’t like to take risk like Nate and Teddy. Also there is Gina who is the all “A” student and is a teacher’s pet and is always wanting to get Nate in trouble.
Then there is Artur the foreign exchange student who is better at everything than Nate. Nate is very jealous of Artur because he got the girl who Nate likes. Not to mention he is popular. I really like this book and for anybody that has a good sense of humor I recommend this book. It made me laugh because it was funny. There were many surprises in this book. It may be a tweens book but I liked it.
It was very funny but also interesting because Nate’s history teacher Mrs. Godfrey is always yelling at Nate. He is the funniest character in this book because of everything he does. If I had to rate this book on a scale of 1­10 I would rate it a 10. So I recommend this book to anyone in any grade in school to read this. If this kid were real I would want to be friend with him. He is funny and not the smartest but he is a good artist. I think not just kids and teenagers would like this book but adults also. If you think it is funny when a kid gets in trouble for doing funny stuff then you would like it. So if you want to read a funny book read this book it is funny, exciting and just plain hysterical. I recommend this book to anybody and groups of all ages.

[Pooja Banga · Rating 3 out of 5]

Join Nate in this collection of his funniest moments, as he confronts the pressures and concerns of sixth grade with his classic hilarity.

Sixth-grader Nate Wright is on top of the world . . . with a little help from his friends! His best buddies, Francis and Teddy, stick with Nate through thick and thin—usually thin. They've seen it all. Nate's disastrous love life, his chess tournament trash talking, even his misguided attempt to be a "bad boy." Along the way, Nate and his pals are joined by Artur, the gentle exchange student who's popular with almost everyone. And don't forget Gina, the teacher's pet who gets an "A" for annoying. They're all here in this collection of cartoons, featuring highlights from Nate's most hilarious adventures.

[Jerrica · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book's set up hard to read because I'm not really into comics. I find it easier to read when it's the traditional reading horizontally left to right. I don't want to critique if people prefer reading graphic novels.

What I liked about this book was that it showed that if you pick the right friends, then they will be by your side through thick and thin. Before I opened the book, I didnt expect for the illustrations to be in all black and white because the cover was in full color. The end pages were very boring and plain jane because they were just blank white. Over all I didnt really appreciate this book and I wouldnt waste my time reading it again.

[Carmen · Rating 1 out of 5]

A poor imitation of Calvin and Hobbes. Get the real thing, skip this.

[Emi French 💜 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Third Nate book, I enjoyed this one probably more then the other ones to be fair 😊 keeping an eye out for others

[Gianluca Raimondo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had a lot of big ideas. Looking to read book 4

[Saleh · Rating 4 out of 5]

he and his friends are silly and love to do a lot of stuff together this book gives a lot of comedy and every page I read I laugh

[Liliana Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Anna Chang 8E · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's really funny and the characters are amazing. I would recommend this book to others.

[Alex Klaas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it.

[Bella · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was the most epic waste of my time. First of all, it was really boring, every time I flipped a page of that horrid book I felt my life dragging by every second. Second of all, it was stupid. Like Nate trying to be better than his friends absolutely stupid. Last of all, no voice at all.

[Stephanie Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

My students are obsessed with Big Nate. We can't keep the books on the shelves! I try to read some of what they're reading to understand the hype. I'll definitely read more--takes an hour or so and it was cute, especially if you have kids in your life.

[Joseph Ryan-Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story's about a young boy called Nate who loves to write comics and one of the comics are called DR Cesspool. My favorite character is Nate because he's always energetic and funny.

Yes I would recommend this story.

[Luke Ivers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was awesome! I slight summary of a main event is this. Nate is with his best friend Teddy when he sees a "Sold" sign in front of their hated teacher, Mrs Godfrey's house. The immediately start celebrating that they will never have to see their evil teacher again. They walk into school the next day saying everything seems brighter and happier, and they can't wait to go to class without Mrs Godfrey. When they finally walk into their classroom they are hugely surprised! See what happens in this awesome book!

Nate is the main character in this book along with his best friends Teddy and Francis. Nate has never had a grade better than a B, and can't stand one one thing about it. Francis is the total opposite with perfect grades, super tidy, and yet they are still best friends. Then there is Teddy; he's about right in the middle with it all. Nate starts pretty shallow, as his friends say. Will he humble himself or continue to be "self-worshipping".

This book was phenomenal! It was cracking me up the whole time! One thing I disliked about the book is that it didn't have one specific main plot. I loved everything else about it, though. I loved how some of the events turned out, I thought they were super clever. It ended up being hilarious after every conversation. I loved this book and I would recommend this to anyone who wants something funny to read.

[Lesli Diaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was about Nate and his friends they had a party at school and they had fun during the winter break. I liked this book because it was very interesting for me, the pictures had lots of details and color and also because the characters were saying their words like if they were right here talking to me. I would recommend this book to my 2nd-grade cousin because he likes to read these kind of books that have lots of pictures.

[Chris Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about Big Nate. Big Nate likes to play basketball. He goes to play a basketball game against another school and they win. I like this book because it's fun to read about basketball. I would recommend this book to Jordan because he likes Big Nate books.

[Nate Porter]

Big Nate and Friends is a great book to read over the summer or have any free time. The book is all about a boy named Nate (of course) and he thinks every thing is all about him. his best friends are Francis & Teddy they are all in the same classes ever since preschool.

[Carston H · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like this book because it had a lot of humor and is an entertaining book.I really like Nate because I think he is funny and he adds a lot to the book.I would recommend this book for anyone he likes funny and entertaining books or anyone from the age 10-14

[Zach]

cool

[Kyle Pasquel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really really really funny!

[Liza · Rating 5 out of 5]

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