Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for August 21, 2011

I’m overqualified, too!Or so I like to think I am.

You sure you wanna be the resident? :)

what do you mean nate you are already good enough because you did all these comics.

Do you consider yourself overqualified, Lincoln?

but nate is good at drawing comics

I’D still go for cartooning.

I CAN SEE IT NOW………… nate wright for president! His slogan is : nate! is great!

I think the point is that a great cartoonist needs only be a good artist and a good writer. A great artist won’t make a cartoonist if he’s not at least a good writer, and a great writer won’t make a cartoonist if he’s not at least a good artist. The bar for each skill is set pretty low in cartooning, but it’s the combination that’s key.

For instance, Vincent van Gogh was a great artist (even better than Bill Watterson), but he couldn’t write a talking-dog joke to save his life. And James Joyce’s stick-figure “Ulysses” graphic novel was just embarrassing.

Nate already became school president two years ago but I don’t know why he got it?

“The quote comes from Charles Schulz, who was always very modest about his skills as a writer AND an artist.”

I might have recognized the source. However, from what I’ve read (second-hand, of course; I never met him personally, whereas you certainly might have) is that, while Schulz never felt cartooning was a particularly worthwhile art form, he was nonetheless very meticulous and very proud (and protective) of his achievements in it. It’s true that Schulz would never be Andrew Wyeth or Scott Fitzgerald, but on their best days Scott Fitzgerald and Andrew Wyeth couldn’t have teamed up to produce “Peanuts.”

The way I look at it is that cartooning calls for a very particular sort of art and writing (and I fully agree that good writing can salvage poor art better than good art can salvage poor writing). A great cartoonist is one who produces great cartoons.

I wouldn’t want a sneak peek. I like seeing them daily.

2 new Sizeman comics will come out next week since there was no new one last week.

i’m more than over qualified

Just finished a new Sizeman comic!

Sizeman vs Heatman and another comic will come out on August 30, guys. By the way I think I am getting my own website name soon. I hope it will be www.comicsbyme.com but I might change the name.When will Nate start worrying about school? It’s getting closer and closer.

Me? i want to be a writer and an illustrator one day. I have some stories I’m writing and some drawings in mind. Just, I’m still thinking about the future.

Great artist Great writerNot so great thinker

ummmmmm……….self centered much??

oh and thank GOODNESS for that fig leaf in the first panel

Uuuuum… Nates drawing xD

Great writer? Tell that to Mrs. Godfrey on your written reports.

i am too! (in my dreams but we do not speak of that)

That’s bad news for me too, I don’t think I’m overqualified, the opposite actually

I’ve been thinking about this comic for a while and the quote it mentioned. Does this mean that Bill Watterson is overqualified?

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/04/13

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/18

no

Nate’s over qualified for something?