Game On!

Big Nate: Comics #6

by Lincoln Peirce

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon!

Big Nate is big news! Follow Nate and his friends’ mostly hapless sports encounters through not-always-highlight-reel moments in the full-color Big Nate: Game On . 

To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky ’tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Humor, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Sports

224 pages, Paperback

Published April 16, 2013

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

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[Matthew L · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Big Nate series is definitely one of my favorite series, along side Diary of a Wimpy kid, and the Middle School series. All these are very similar series, I recommend them all! Just so you know, the Big Nate books don't have chapters, there are different stories every 5 pages. This book is about Nate, and his friends playing sports. In my opinion, I thought it was ok. There were a couple of stories from other Big Nate books in it.

[Kearden · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good short read book you could read in a day if you really wanted to. it is a combination of many short stories. they are all very interesting book it can get repetitive and very annoying at times but if you push thought it you have read three or four short stories.

[Kelly DeLeon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short quirky comic book that would be perfect to kill time. The even though the art style is plain it is charming at the same time. The book is about Nate playing three sports, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Although what makes Nate's sports life different from anybody else is how he takes the sport on. He has ways to make the ordinary sports games into something more funny or fun. There are many other books about Nate and I would want to continue to read them. Even if there isn't much of a plot or drive to the story it is very entertaining. I would recommend this to friends and family if they would want to kill some time on a cheeky book like this.

[Corey Butler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not something I would typically read but I needed to read another graphic novel so I picked this one. It does have some funny parts, but, no, just no I don't recommend this to anyone older than 8.

[Jatin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a really good book to read

[Jessie Peng · Rating 5 out of 5]

it's so creative, all the tactics nate finds himself in.
all that imagination is awesome

[Kelly Argyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny

It is was so funny my son told me some of it and it was hilarious! So buy it because it is so funny

[Nathan Jaskiewicz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought his book was very funny. It is a good book for people who like comedy and comics. i would recommend this book to anyone.

[JafetM · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good book because I love graphic novels and it has a lot of sense of humor.

[Annie Risher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book because I am on a soccer team. Also I think Nate is funny.

[Adam D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

BIG NATE – Game On
I recently read another Big Nate book called Game On. It was pretty much just as good as the other ones in the series. It was funny as usual. The thing that was different about this one is that it was like three books in one. It was about sports and was divided into three parts: basketball, baseball, and soccer. I thought it was funny because the author had the main character do hilarious things while he was playing the sports. This book was also different because if wasn’t mostly set at school. Instead it was about playing sports. I could relate to this book because I love playing sports too. I would recommend it to people who like the Big Nate series, people who like sports, and people who like to laugh.

[Thaddeus · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first four basketball seasons Nate joined all of them. He trash talks to distract the other players, and he shoots the hoop when they are distracted. Then one game the coach said,"Nate you keep your mouth shut out there today." Nate says,"Huh?" Coach says,"No trash talking." Nate panics because he can't trash talk. He says,"If I can't trash talk i'm going to lose my edge!" Coach says,"Sorry son no trash talking." The coach is not Nate's dad though. Then baseball seasons come there are three of them. Nate joins the team. The team name is "Chez Linda." Nate is freaking out! Then soccer season comes. Nate is the goalie,and he gets hit in the face with the soccer ball a lot. Then at the end of the season he went home with a concussion.

[Emily Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book I chose for my graphic novel is Game On! Big Nate. This book would be good for any grade to read but I think since it is so long 4th or 5th graders would enjoy it most. This book is all about sports so I think the curriculum connection is social skills because he is learning to play with a team. Reading it I did not see any content concern. In a way this book has three chapters one about basketball, one about baseball and the last is about soccer. Nate learns more about these sports and he gets to play with his friends.

[Cristian Hernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious! Nate is going on a adventure to be good at sports! From losing his trash-talking ability in basketball to getting repeatedly hit in the face with a soccer ball, this book is hands-down amazing. One of Lincoln Pierce's best books ever!

[omar barakat · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's really funny.

I loved the book and the series im try to read the my whole collection at least 2 times this year.

[Preston M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

lol this was a very very funny book. Nate is a Red Sox fan which is great!!! This was a very much needed quick read.

[Miranda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Big Nate, Game On!, is a book where it puts in all of the moments where Nate does sports such as, Basket Ball and Soccer. Its funny because he usually fails a lot and he makes a bunch of mistakes. He usually gets hit by something like Soccer Balls and other sorts material. Some of the stuff he gets injured by can be so ridiculous that it made me laugh.


This kind of book is a comedy and fiction kind. It is comedy because it has many hilarious moments like I have said in the introduction. Its fiction because the graphics are more like comics, like the book is and the characters are probably not real because it's so funny! This book is an easy read because its made of comics! The books very long but, its easy and fun to read! Sometimes ryou can zoom right through it because mostly they say simple words! But also, you ca go slowly by paying attention to the panels and spot the box with the word, Peirce!


The theme of the book is about nates sport activitys. How he mostly has funny mess ups all the time. He always gets hit by unexpected, various, and upcoming balls. He sometimes makes a few saves when in some games but, he usually fails a lot. They also get picked bad names for example, Chez Linda, a beauty parlor. Its always funny when they get funny names, so thats the theme!


The setting of the book is mostly sports fields and sometimes school and home. Its that setting because this is about sports and other things but, mostly sports. Its home because sometimes he gets back from a game. It can also be school because he participates in school sports.


This book is extremely funny and hilarious. It makes me laugh all the time! Nate makes funny face expressions and some people are sarcastic. It will probably make YOU laugh too! You should buy this book or check it out! I reccomend this book to ages 5-13! I give it 5 stars. Keep reading!

[Caden · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was about Nate. In the book he was always causing trouble. There was not one point were he wasn't. There was 3 parts in the book. The first part was basketball season. He had to be at least the best player, but he lost his smack talk. He didn't know what to say smack talk was his game. He was very good at smack talking, not only could he not smack talk his coach even yelled at him . So here and there he would lose the ball or get it stolen by the other team and they would score easy. He also got made fun of a lot be b cause he thought he was the best. Well now its baseball season, which he also thinks he the bast at. Well they were a great team until the lost there best hitter, pitcher, and many other people. They had all the bad non good people. Nate always complained nothing happened it right field, well when he got it hit there he was up on-top of the fence because there was a cat on the ground and he is really scared of cats. Well thank anybody baseball season is over, its time for soccer. Its the first day of practice and just like last year he is the goalie, not the best one but not balls get past him. Every time he blocks the ball he falls down of loses his shoes cause it gets kicked so hard. But he was good, the thing is he lost his lucky socks so he's mad. Then someone said just get new lucky socks. SO that problem got over they had a great season and, at the end of the book. Another kid want to be be goalie. Pages, 224, Genre, Tall Tale.

[David Natiuk · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun, entertaining, and humorous look at life through the eyes of a boy whose traits and sports experiences might just mirror a few of our own.

This was my first introduction to "Big Nate" and I enjoyed it. Game On is all about sports and competition, and the crazy, kookie things that come along with it: like smack talk, "bulking up", bad coaches, mismatched sponsorships, and more.

The main "star" of our program - Big Nate - reminds me of one of my sons, and probably will remind you of your kids (or even yourself?) -- trying hard, but flawed... as we all are. It's the reality of the world trying to break down the idealistic views we have of ourselves and our endeavors. But Big Nate reminds us that life is life, and its best to smile and laugh along than to fight the things we can't change.

[Vlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I look into the Barnes N' Noble shelves, I see the glorious sky blue book glistening in the light. Glorious, you must say. Indeed.

One of Lincoln's best books, and those are hard to find. The story is about Nate, a middle grade student, who participates in many sports. However, his team has a streak of losing. He takes in his trash-talking skills on the basketball court and his cocky tone in the soccer goal. Does he have what it takes to make him stand out?
Apparently not.

One of my favorite comic books, apart from The Amulet series. I love a good killer book to kill time. It's entertaining and enjoyable, so get it.

*Horrible grammar and spelling, as if you can't tell ;)
*Suited for children or up who can handle minor cuss words and some inappropriate scenes, nothing major.

[Trevor Bosse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big Nate (Game On) is a well written book with very funny characters. I got a got laugh out of this book and Nate is hilarious. At the begging of this book being all so funny didn't help though and his basketball team wasn't good. While Nate was on the court he would either get distracted or try some fancy move that usually didn't work all because he wanted to be funny so to say. I rate this book a four star.

[Bunny · Rating 4 out of 5]

My library's OverDrive selection leaves MUCH to be desired. But I couldn't sleep (as ever) last night, needed something to read, and downloaded a buttload of Big Nate books.

And I don't feel ashamed. These books are adorable, and this is basically a comic strip collection. No different than my life for Garfield. Love it.

[Andrew Kiley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a funny book in comic book style. Nate is a goofball on sports teams trying to be funny and trash talk the other teams. He does baseball, soccer, and basketball. he is not the greatest at the sports so it makes it so much funnier. This is a humorous book and you like it in comic style i think you should pick it up.

[GuggleIt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, we get a doze of Nate's ego, Francis's Book Of Facts, and Teddy puns. This comic collection contain's all of the Big Nate sport comics ever printed! (As of the release of this book.) The only problem is, you get sick of it fast, and they aren't exactly Nate's best comics ever... But still OK book.

[Radhika (rads) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was hilarious! This is definitely a book a kid would enjoy. Going from basketball trash talk to soccer stress will make you want laugh. This is an awesome book and i guarentee you will love it!

[Dini Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the cutest characters (again)! Never read US comic-strip book like this before, and hell yeah, was it entertaining!

[Piper Merrill · Rating 5 out of 5]

very good boook

[stephanie f biddle · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Keann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was an ok book. It was funny and boring at some parts. If you want to read a fast graphic novel I would suggest this book.