Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for November 12, 2019

Because it’s a comic strip lolol

Ooh! Self-deprecation!

Another reason: It’s a cartoon!

And that’s how cartoon characters roll.

I wonder if they’re going to break the fourth wall. They seem to be getting really close to figuring out the sad reality of being a cartoon character.

Was Francis making fun of himself and Nate or of Lincoln?

Francis is right.

Tradition?, like a fiddler on the roof

I’m hoping Nate and Francis don’t change their shirts too. And just for the record, I used to call Nate’s shirt yellow with a big blue stripe at the top

A tradition of laziness.

Sisters hog the washing machine!

If this leads to them finding out that they are cartoon characters, I hope that it won’t lead to the end of the strip.

Teddy, just change the shirt. A combination of Purple and green just looks ugly.

Otherwise the colorist gets all confused.

Francis wears the same shirt every day and now calling Teddy and Nate lazy!?

The fourth wall: exists

This arc: I’m about to end this mans whole career

Wearing the same clothes make for stinky cartoon characters

Big Nate: Choose Your Own Story!

You decide to play a prank on Gina. She walks into the library, and finds a spot at a table. She looks around for a book. You and Nate go up to her chair, and Nate places an ice cream sandwich on it. “It’s a waste of good food, but worth it!” Gina was coming back, and you and Nate run fast. As soon as Gina sits on the chair, SPLURCH! “WHAT’S GOING ON!” she yells. She looks around for you and Nate, and spots you. She runs toward you. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING! you have no meaning in time and space!”

Do you,

(a) insult her

(b) roast her

© run!

Nate: Tradition!

Francis: Laziness.

Us: Comic logic!

All of you arguing about the “fourth wall”… Francis already broke it when he said the word “laziness”. He’s referring to the cartoonist’s laziness, of course

Tradition you say, then Teddy’s breaking tradition!

Nate is soo picky

Laziness… Hah! That’s a really good reason

Bro, imagine having clothes to wear…

what?

I think the technical term may be ‘continuity.’

It could just be because they’re…..cartoons. Geeze-Louise, next thing you know, they’ll finally be in seventh grade…..

No one told the colorist?

Charlie Brown has you all beat – he’s been wearing the same zig-zag stripe shirt for decades!

have u noticed that big nate has a lighter blue shirt on weekends then weekdays?

I’d like to see Mrs. Godfrey wearing the shirt Nate has (but her size.) Lol!

Comic logic!

in the snow strips they wear different clothes

has anyone noticed how Francis’s face is weird in the last panel?

Laziness because it is easier for the cartoonist? If so, that is excellent self deprecating satire by Lincoln,

That’s right Francis. Laziness on the creators part.

because the artist would run out of ideas for their shirts

I always thought the F on Francis’s shirt was just a wrinkle

Teddy: wears something different

Nate: wait that’s illegal

Francis is like Deadpool, he knows they are not real

The answer is tropes.