Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for December 06, 2012
December 05, 2012
December 07, 2012
Transcript:
...And the cinematography is... Sir? This is a non-smoking building. I'm not smoking, young man! This pipe is merely a prop to lend realism to my costume! Chuckle! And it obviously worked since you mistook me for an actual wizard! Kid, tell him I'm not a wizard. Yeah. Not even close.
Well, that’s sort of a long story, but here goes: When I started the strip, I was living in New York City. In New York, many of the public schools have numbers, which I thought was kind of cool. So I gave Nate’s school a number for a name, not really realizing that NYC is really the only place in the US with school names like that. So by naming Nate’s school P.S. 38, I probably created some confusion. Some people might think that means Nate lives in NYC, which of course he doesn’t. If I were doing it all over again, I’d give his school a “real” name. Incidentally, I chose the number 38 because it was my street address growing up: 38 Coe Drive in Durham, New Hampshire.