Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for July 19, 2012

Well, one of the truisms of cartooning is that there aren’t really any new ideas. Just about every joke you could ever think of has been told already, so the challenge is finding fresh ways to tell the same jokes. It’s a fun challenge each year to find a new angle on School Picture Day or Christmas or whatever the case may be. So that’s one part of my motivation. The other part, as OldestandWisest said, is keeping my family fed and keeping a roof over our heads. And paying my kids’ college tuition bills.