Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for October 19, 2012
Transcript:
Listen, shutterbug, you were supposed to be done by now! So sorry, coach! Just trying to get a smile out of this young man! Well, than, get on with it, kid! Just flash those pearly whites and look happy! ...Like this! Good heavens. How 'bout I just use last year's picture?
I still include Nate’s comics like “Doctor Cesspool,” “Moe Mentum,” etc. in the Big Nate chapter books. But I stopped putting them in the comic strip a number of years ago, mostly because I got a lot of feedback from people that they were difficult to read. Newspapers shrink comics to such a small size nowadays, the “lined paper” look of those strips could make them almost illegible.