Lincoln Peirce

Lincoln Peirce is an American cartoonist who writes the comic strip Big Nate. Peirce is from Portland, Maine, lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating.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 baseball 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.