found: Wikipedia, Nov. 19, 2014(Lincoln Peirce is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Big Nate comic strip. Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire. He taught art and coached baseball at Xavier High School, a boys' high school in New York City, for three years before moving to Maine in 1992 and started writing. He has also written several animated shorts for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He also hosts a local radio show devoted to honky tonk and western swing on WMPG. Peirce is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Big Nate novel series.)