Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for September 11, 2011

very good you three.

Thank you, Lincoln.

I have no idea where I was or what I was doing. To be totally honest, the calendar says it’s been 10 years, but it feels to me like that attack happened on Sept. 11, 1901, it’s been so long. I really only barely remember it.

It actually took me about two minutes to realize that it was the Twin Towers. I initially thought Nate had put a rod in one of them, which would result in a foot injury if Randy tried to knock it over, hence fulfilling his prediction.

I was in the V.A. hospital in Little Rock,Ar.. I just woke up from3 bypasses and realized that my problems and worrieswhere small. I greaved for our lost of peace.

Nice

Slept in. My mother called me and said “Watch the news. Some poor pilot’s run into the big tower in New York.” I stood there watching with her, over coffee, and while we watched, the other plane struck. We both about hit our knees. This was no poor pilot’s accident. This was a terrorist act. Yes, we were selfish. “Why, Lord, after what happened in our own hometown, only 6 years ago?!!! (OKC bombing, April 1995) Why will you continue to let innocent babies and others die for a madman’s insanity?!!!” At least now, McVeigh and Bin Ladin are down in the flames in front of their Master. “And the smoke from their torment will rise forever…”

I was getting ready to go to work – didn’t have to be in quite so early that day – and my husband called to tell me that some pilot had hit one of the towers. I turned on the TV and was talking with him, relaying what the Today Show commentators were saying, and saw the 2nd plane gliding in. I remember telling him that it was going to hit the 2nd tower, and a split second later, it did. Terrible.

im not trying to be rude or anything but it wouldve been creepy if a boy with a remote control airplane flew the airplane into the sand casttle

stop bothering him he deleted it just end the conversation dont try and make him look bad

He BETTER not knock that over.

Never forget

Awesome. Alot of respect for Nate.

I was working in my office when I heard on my radio that a plane had hit the WTC. I thought at first that it was just an accident (during WWII, an Army bomber accidentally ran into the Empire State Building when on a training flight). Then my boss came into my office and told me a SECOND plane had hit…

Out of curiosity how did they get the sand to stay straight up and down like that?

I was on my way to work in Edmonton. It was 6:45-ish. The radio personalities I was listening to had CNN on. By the time I got to work, they had reported seeing a second plane striking the twin towers. By then I knew the U.S. was under attack.

Nice tribute by the way.

When this happened, I was 2, there is no way I remember where I was.

Good one.Thank you, Lincoln.

I can not forget that horrible day!! It took me months to stop crying for those selfless hereos. It still rocks me to this day and most of the comics I have read have had some beautiful tributes to those hereos!!

I was in bed, recovering from pneumonia. Got bored with the book I was reading and turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit. Later that day I got a call from my mother that my cousin, who worked at the Pentagon, hadn’t been heard from. It was 2 days before we learned he was safe and unharmed.

I used to live in NY City. However, I was visiting Japan when 9/11 happened.

Thank you, Mr. Peirce!

Ooooh the dilemma for Mr. Bully :D

Because of those sand towers.

Did anyone else notice Randy looks like he’s wearing underpants?

Wonderful

How very touching.

Thanks for the tribute Lincoln!

That day, I have no idea where I was or what was I doing, since I was only 3.

BTW, is there any other comic strip with a 9-11 tribute?

I was at my desk about a mile from the Pentagon, with a clear view of National Airport. I must have turned off my car radio about the time the first plane struck. By the time my boss told me the news, the second had struck too. I joined everyone watching TV, trying to comprehend that this had been a deliberate attack, when someone rushed in saying another plane had hit the Pentagon, and we could see the smoke from the windows on one side. After a while, we were told to get back to work. While watching people stream out of the airport on foot, I tried to reach my brother in NYC, because I knew his wife worked for a financial firm, but I couldn’t reach him. I finally reached my parents, who said she didn’t work there but cousins did. One never came home. I had lunch with a stranded stranger. I will never forget the emptiness of the airport for weeks, the impromptu memorials along a fence not far from the Pentagon, the fighter planes overhead, the fear and the sadness balanced by the sense of community and mutual support.

New Sizeman comics starting September 14 :DAnd @buddytoe the best ones I’ve seen so far are Big Nate and Over The Hedge.

If Randy throws a paper plane at that…GOD!!!

Beautiful comic today.

Was at work (medical office with no TV), trying to get news from radio and intermet. Remember calling home and telling my mom to turn on the TV. The local paper put out an Extra edition. First I can ever remember.

Fanatics don’t need a point.

Lovely Lincoln!

I was at work and on my breaks and lunch I’d run upstairs to watch a tv. We also rounded up all the radios we could find so everyone could listen as they worked.

Our dental equipment company had sent a team, including one of my friends, to New York to install equipment and they were staying maybe a dozen blocks from the World Trade Center. They had even planned to go visit there before starting work that morning but had stayed out late the night before so didn’t go!

Anyway, it was tough waiting to hear from them- they were too scared to fly home, when planes were finally back in the air, so they drove all the way back to Oregon in a rental car!

Well done, Nate.

I read a news story about all the 9/11 comics being put onto one site – does anyone know what the url is?

i was 2 playing in the living room why my mom watched it.

hmmmmmmmm where is sparkbell and carl

by the way this is johphan but i changed my name to alan valdes

I was at work at the phone company, and just checked the stock market. It was closed, and I wondered why. When I found out, I went to the break room in time to see the second plane hit. We had restricted access rules the rest of the day.

hey spark bell could i have the url for your comics i lost it. btw this is johpan but i changed my name. btw x2 im 12 too!

Nice, sally.

Cool tribute comic strip Lincoln

ghostkeeper: Thanks. It is also the anniversary of the CIA-led massacre of a church in Haiti, the death-squad murder of an anthropologist in Guatemala, the end of the protest and the beginning of the torture at Attica State Prison in New York. And just so it isn’t all doom and gloom, the founding in 1906 of the satyagraha nonviolent protest movement by Mohandas Gandhi.

I was right here in my bedroom. I awoke shortly after the first plane hit. I learned that after I had turned the TV on.

ethier those kiddies are small or castle is big!

Well done.It was one of the brightest clearest beautiful days you hear about, it was the first day of school for NYC kids I was at work in the school. It was a few days after we had burried my dad, who had spent his life working in downtown Manhattan. We heard the news around the floor that a plane had hit the tower. Like everyone we thought it was an accident, then another we heard I couldn’t believe it. We put a little radio on & heard about the pentagon this just didn’t feel real. I looked across the room at the other teacher with the " k" kids n I said/mouthed we are being attacked! We are at war! Then we went on lock down all morning lines of parents running to get their kids n staff members leaving n wondering if their loved ones where anywhere near what we now call ground zero. It was needless to say surreal tragic heartbreaking and angry day. I and everyone will never forget.

Nice comic strip Mr. Pierce!!!! You managed to mix the blackletter day of 2001 with your wonderful idea,Nate!!!Well done!!!

75th comment… if randy knocked it over i would hate him

You know thats not what they’re comemmorating in the comic strip, plus that was much longer ago PLUS 38 isn’t a round number like 10

The reason for no rememberance of the Chileans is because the U.S is a superpowerand will do what it wants and will depend onthe mainstream media to not cover the attrocities the country is doing. Yes 9/11 in theU.S is a tragedy but the reason it happened isbecause of the U.S going into other countriesand killing their citizens. It was not unprovoced

great comic!

Man, I remember playing in the garage with my brother when I found out what happened. That whole day I felt just sick. Even a few days after.

i still cant beleve that 2,996 people died on that day. :’(

Even Randy, the resident scuzzball, wouldn’t dare to knock over a sandcastle shaped like the twin towers.

i now have more respect for nate

I’m glad there is tribute to that horrible day

What’s frustrating is this is the first time yes ever down it.

chileans are also humans not just americans

May God Almighty Rest Their Souls In Peace.

Randy, if you knock that sand sculpture over… do NOT knock that over.

Excuse me, but 9/11 is more than a sad event. It brought the USA together, and helped us create safety measures for any possible terrorist attacks in the future. Having a comic be a tribute to 9/11 is just a way of showing our thanks to those heroes who saved people in the twin towers, steered the plane away from the capital, and helped people out of the rubble. It is also important to keep it in our minds that this sort of thing can and will happen, so that we do not become ignorant.

WOW! That’s taller than all four of them are!

Great strip, Lincoln… Yes, it was a sad time and I’m happy that Ted, Nate and Francis made that sancastle to remember.

What’s with the Throwaway Art? I realize it’s also supposed to be the Twin Towers, but pencils have nothing to do with this strip. And why’s it in color?

When this appeared in “Welcome to My World” they left the date on it

That was a sad day… Please don’t knock that over, Randy.

This comic marks the 10th anniversary! R.I.P ;(

RIP

Never Forget 9/11

He won’t knock it over.

God bless everyone who died that day.

one of the worst incidents of terrorism ever

9/11/01: We will always remember.

If Randy goes for it, he’ll be pinned a teriest.

I don’t know what exactly happened, I was born in 2006

I don’t know why it took me so long to get that they made the twin towers from sand. And I don’t know where I was on that day. I was born a year before this happened. I’m sorry for the people who lost their family members on this day.

I just realized what the last panel meant

Wow, look at Nate’s serious face in the last panel!

Wait, i dont get it, whats the joke?

really nice tribute to 9/11

I, fortunately, wasn’t born during 9/11.

Best strip of all time.

sniffle sniffle IT’S BEAUTIFUL

tbh though this is one of my favorite comic strips of all time, glad mr.pierce (however you spell it) was able to take the time to draw this.

Thank you for writing this. Thank you.

This is the comic that restores all my faith in big nate…. The one that assures me that no matter how many bone-headed things he does, He and his friends will always remember and respect the men and women who experienced that day, Those who went in to help people… and did not come out, are the greatest heroes I can think of. (can I get an “Amen?”)

Anyone reading this…..Never forget.

As much as a jerk randy can be, at lease he respects 9/11.

9/11 reference and R.I.P. the people who died

Is this a tribute to 9/11? If so then that’s beautiful great job Peirce

Great tribute.

The ten-year anniversary.

The sketch for this strip was unique. It had pencils!

Thank you Lincoln.

Randy’s such a terrorist

Never forget

Never Forget.

Never forget

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Thank you

My dads best friend who had gotten married two weeks before 9/11 saved five people and died as a hero my best friend met the family of the people who over powered the pilots and crashed in a field I’m am so sad that they are gone but happy they died helping others

Nate, this makes up for the time you dumped Kelly, this is the most wholesome thing you ever did

whats with the pole in it?

how did i just realize right now that those were the twin tower

it took me 2 years to realize that that were the twin towers. I literally realized today when i looked at the comments…

Amen nate

We will never forget this terrible happening. A salute to all those fallen heroes

I’ve never seen nate so serious

I don’t get it

in memory of the twin towers

may all of those people who tragically died rest in peace . so sad :(

2,977 people died, 25,000 were injured. why did this even happen? it is so sad :(

is that a pencil?

it is 2021 and it has now been almost 20 years

Never forget. Never forget.

Its the twin towers

GASP!

Great work Peirce!!

I heard of 9/11 when I was reading a history book. There was a timeline for events of 20th/21st century and noticed the the date – September 11, 2001. My parents explained what happened. The sad day was mentioned in “A Year To Remember” too.

I didn’t get the comic till I read the comments. Now that I get it, it makes me sad, because my uncle lived in NYC during 9/11 and he died in the attack.

Yeah 9/11 happened before I was born.

I’m not very old yet and this occurrence happened way before I was born. I first saw this comic in the books since they were my only way of reading Big Nate. I’m Canadian so this really just confused me. It was only today that I learned about the tragedies that befell America during that horrific day. I had heard of its occurrence and knew that it was a terrorist attack but I didn’t think much of it since it was over and didn’t affect me in any sort of way. After I learnt that the structures Nate Francis and Teddy made were the twin towers led me to learn about what happened during that day. Honestly, this gave me a newfound appreciation and respect for the trio for commemorating the victims during the victims of 9/11. Never forget… We salute you

until now i never noticed that that is what it was

This is sad :( but trust me, there is no need to be mean to Muslims, it’s not any of our faults, these terrorist attacks-the people won’t die in vain. :’(

Rest in peace Twin Towers. We should be grateful for all those first responders that helped people on 9/11

Not gonna lie, this is probably my favorite comic ever. And I’m not nicest just cause it’s about me.

Less than 6 hours, 4 planes, 3 important landmarks destroyed, 3000 fatalities, 25,000 injured.

Rest in piece 9-11 :(

R.I.P people of 9/11. Thank you for creating this Lincoln Pierce.

Thank you Mr. Peirce. Thank you for shining a light on something so many people forget. :)

Probably one of the most beautiful Big Nate strips

Rest In Peace to everyone who died during the 9/11 attacks.

Wha-? How-?

I wasn’t alive when this tragedy occurred, but my heart goes out to the victims and survivors

i always read this one in the book, and i never thought it was on th 10th aniversiry of 9/11. never forget

Great comic, but why are they at the beach in September?

Being the bully that he is, he’d probably not even realize what that’s even supposed to represent and crash it all down.

beautiful. just… beautiful.

21 years ago…

Written 9/11/2022

one of the only serious strips.

RIP 9/11

Best tribute ever

Absolutely beautiful… Huge respect to Lincoln, especially since this day was the 10 year anniversary

You wouldn’t do it again will you?

o7

you guys should check out Over the Hedge 9/11 2011

if randy knocked down those towers I bet nate would beat him silly

oh hell nah