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.