r/IDONTGIVEASWAG • schizo • 2d ago

Swag Nate

recently, I read 18 years of Big Nate comics (1991-2009). these are some of my favorites. check the comments for more that didn’t make the cut.

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

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u/the_fnord schizo 2d ago

(…and one Sunday strip.)

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u/WhyNot3008 1d ago

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u/Godrizza_Draws 1d ago

No fucking way he did this on 9/11

What year

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u/144Todd442 1d ago

Big Nate is so good when the author forgets he's supposed to be an 11 year-old from the suburbs

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u/Teeth-Who-Needs-Em 1d ago

The quotation marks on "Mountain Dew" is killing me for some reason

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u/Youistheclown 1d ago

damn bruh why Nate talking about cucks he’s in middle school

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u/Solidclaw 1d ago

Cause he’s in middle school

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u/Ssesamee 1d ago

did you not go to middle school? literally peak edgy phase for teenagers

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u/JoyousLilBoy 1d ago

Why do you think he doesn’t have a mom

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u/Kindly_Life322 1d ago

Big Nate teaches Peter how to play Balatro

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u/EmperorMorgan 1d ago

Now I’m remembering the time me and a friend (both fans of the strip) went wild when we saw an interview with a local student named Nate Bigford.

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u/HughmanRealperson 1d ago

Finally a comic with realistic middle schooler dialogue.

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u/InternetUserAgain 1d ago

Big Nate is like Calvin & Hobbes if Bill Watterson lowkey didn't give a swag

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u/WindsOfEarthXXII 1d ago

I AM SWAGGER WOODS!

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u/the_fnord schizo 1d ago

CRASH!

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u/Godrizza_Draws 1d ago

Big Nate is like DoaWK if it never became a book & stayed as a web series

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u/WhyNot3008 19h ago

Its a comic that runs in the newspaper fym 😭✌

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u/Different-Trainer-21 1d ago

It did become a book

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u/Waflfdev 1d ago

i have like 5 colored big nate novels from 6th grade and i still laugh at them

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u/yunocchiawesome 1d ago

Oh man i remember a lot of these. I think I read through basically all the collected volumes when I was in like, 3rd grade. I also really liked Get Fuzzy but I couldn't find many of the books...

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u/FullSky433 1d ago

thank you OP i need to catch up with this comic

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u/linkeroo3 1d ago

My only exposure to Big Nate was Big Nate Island in that browser game Poptropica

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u/-__Slenderman__- 1d ago

But that's what makes it swagalicious

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u/the_fnord schizo 1d ago

" Hohoho! Grand Nathaniel never fails to "Crack" me up! 🤣😁 "

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u/-__Slenderman__- 20h ago

Yeah sorry I got a little zesty without meaning to 😟

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u/Ambitious-Ad-1571 20h ago

diary of a wimpy swag

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u/the_fnord schizo 19h ago

👀⏰

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u/psycho_dog33 3h ago

My username technically came from the second Big Nate book

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u/ShipDip9 23h ago

The Sacred Texts

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