25 Years of PICKLES

A Pickles Collection by Brian Crane

Getting old is not for sissies. But as Brian Crane’s crotchety but endearing seniors Earl and Opal Pickles do it, it can be humorous and often touching. For over twenty years, Crane’s comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world. This sixth collection continues the adventures of grandparents Earl and Opal; their precocious grandson, Nelson; quirky family members and friends; and the family’s dog and cat, who offer their own distinctive views of the goings-on. Crane’s view of the foibles of a long-married, often cantankerous couple and their extended family and friends is wry, honest, and always warm-hearted.

Brian Crane’s Pickles appears in over 900 newspapers worldwide. He has been nominated three times and won in 2013 the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society, (read the Washington Post Article) and Pickles has been nominated twice as Best Comic Strip, a prestigious award it won in 2001. Cranes lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and thirteen grandchildren–and a fourteenth on the way.