By: E&P Staff The United Media strip "Big Nate" has set sail for the interactive world -- and is currently enjoying its own island at Poptropica.
For the uninitiated, Poptropica is a virtual world for kids that features interactive islands to explore, and boasts more than 13 million visitors each month from around the globe. At the site, kids select their age, create a user name and password, and build an avatar that will allow them to romp through 10 online virtual islands. They can select from numerous characters, hairstyles and colors, eyes, lips and clothing to create their own unique character.
Created by cartoonist Lincoln Peirce, ?Big Nate? was launched in 1991 and is published in more than 200 newspapers. It stars a wisecracking kid who holds the all-time record for detentions at his school. On ?Big Nate? island, Poptropica visitors are greeted by characters from the comic strip and embark on a mission to find a long-lost time capsule, which, if found, will save his school from demolition. But the only way to complete their quest is with help from Nate and his friends.
In the week following its launch, Big Nate Island was visited by more than 2.2 million different kids, each of whom spent an average of 23 minutes each time they logged on, according to a release from United Media.
?Big Nate Island gives comics fans a great new opportunity to interact with a character they?ve come to love in print,? said Lisa Klem Wilson, senior vice president and general manager of United Media?s syndication division. ?And, it?s a very exciting way to introduce Big Nate to a whole new audience of kids on the Web.?
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