Random House Children’s Books has announced plans to publish a new standalone illustrated middle grade novel by author Lincoln Peirce, creator of the bestselling Big Nate series. The new book, Max and ...

Lincoln Peirce and HarperCollins Children's Books have officially broken the Guinness World Records title for the world's longest cartoon strip by a team. The record was broken live on TODAY show in ...

IT WAS the potshot heard ’round the syndication world. This week, as you may know, an Indiana 8-year-old called his local paper to rant about his favorite missing Sunday funnies. The boy, Mac, was ...

Yes, a kid’s obsession with comics really can lead to big things. Lincoln Peirce is a case in point. His Big Nate character, a high-energy sixth-grader who serves up big laughs and gets lots of ...

Big Nate is joining the ranks of Peanuts, Little Orphan Annie, and The Amazing Spider-Man. A musical based on Lincoln Peirce’s comic strip premiered this month at Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo ...

DURHAM — Lincoln Peirce grew up in Durham dreaming of becoming a cartoonist and getting his comic strip printed in Foster's Daily Democrat. Peirce returned to his hometown and shared his journey of ...

If there’s a common thread among bestselling books for elementary school boys, it’s the merry mischief maker traipsing through a comics-laden landscape. It is now a common literary trajectory that ...

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PLAINVILLE -- When Lincoln Peirce comes to Jeff Kinney’s downtown bookstore, An Unlikely Story, Thursday night, it will not only be a convergence of two prominent figures in children’s literature and ...