An Interview with Lincoln Peirce
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Lincoln Peirce, the cartoonist behind Big Nate, recently sat on a panel at the Maine Comics Arts Festival with Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) and Corey Pandolph (Bark Eater Lake/The Elderberries). The subject discussed was around the subject â??Surviving as a Print Cartoonistâ? which you read more about on Mike Petersonâ??s â??Nellie Blogâ??.
Iâ??m a fan of all of these cartoonistsâ?? work, and was interested to find out more â?? particularly about Lincoln Peirce who keeps a fairly low profile.
Here is an excerpt from a short interview with him, in which I ask him for some insight into the impact of the internet on the smaller cartoonists:
In large part, I think the internet reinforces the pecking order that has already been established by syndication. In other words, the potential impact of the internet is largely dependent upon a stripâ??s pre-existing popularity. Strips that are well-known because people read them in newspapers or compilation books are the ones that sites like comics.com or gocomics are going to feature more prominently. Those are the strips that more people blog about, those are the strips that are linked to more frequently, and so on. For those of us whose strips ARENâ??T among the 10 or 12 most popular, the challenge is finding ways to make people aware of your creation, devising methods of driving people to sites that feature your work.
You can read the full interview on my blog, Comic Insight.
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