Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for November 14, 2013
November 13, 2013
November 15, 2013
Transcript:
TEDDY: Heh heh! There goes your stomach again! NATEL Yeah yeah. JENNY: It sounds like your stomach's talking! TEDDY: It sounds like it's singing! Hey! Everybody! Come here! I think it's doing the second verse of "Louie Louie!" NATE: I can't take it.
Mr. Peirce, I’ve a question for you. I’ve noticed that most strips have a gag that they use often, with small variations, like one of the characters in “Pearls Before Swine” calling Stephan Pastis (the cartoonist) an idiot. Most cartoonists (that I know of) have something similar to this, which I assume they use when they need to make a strip and don’t have a brilliant idea gnawing their drawing hand. But, unless you count Nate trying to convince Francis that dogs are better than cats (which I don’t), I haven’t noticed a fallback joke in “Big Nate”. So my question is where do all your original ideas come from? Are you a humor mastermind who can just create funny ideas out of nowhere? Do you take ideas from your life? Do you take suggestions (Enslave the Mollusk!)? Something else? I’m curious.