35 Years of Pickles - by Brian Crane (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"Pickles is going to be around for a long time, and I am glad we have this collection to look at over and over and over," wrote Charles M. Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang about Brian Crane. After thirty-five years, we can now say Mr. Schulz was one-hundred percent correct. 35 Years of Pickles celebrates the amazing thirty-five-year career of Brian Crane and his work with Earl, Opal, Nelson, and the rest of the Pickles gang. Including full-color strips never published in a collected format, 35 Years of Pickles is sure to delight the lifetime fans continuing their journeys with this award-winning strip, as well as new fans the Pickles family is eager to welcome into their home and hearts. 35 Years makes a unique addition to any Pickles library.

• All strips in 35 Years of Pickles, including Sunday strips, have never been published in a collected format before
• full-color, including updated strips from black and white originals
• Strips from each year from 1990 through 2025
• Crane has hand drwan the strip daily for the past 35 years
• Pickles appears in over 900 newspapers nationwide

Review Quotes

Praise for PICKLES:

"Pickles is going to be around for a long time, and I am glad we have this collection to look at over and over and over." --Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts

"The logic of Earl. That's my favorite part of Pickles. Or maybe it's the straight talk of Opal. OR the naivete of Nelson. Hard to choose. It's certainly not the fact that the older I get, the more I recognize myself in Pickles." --Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues

"Pickles is one of my all-time favorite comic strips, and Brian Crane is one of my all-time favorite cartoonists. Pickles is original, funny, fresh . . . nice without being corny, warm without being sappy. I don't know how he does it day after day. There is something for everyone here . . . I don't know anyone, of any age, who doesn't love Pickles. It's an honor to share the funny pages with such a great strip." --Jan Eliot, creator of the comic strip Stone Soup

"Pickles creator, Brian Crane, entertains us with recognizable and sympathetic characters we all can relate to. We all have an 'Earl and Opal' in our extended families, and Brian brings out the humor of their relationship without resorting to the trite and obvious. And I love it when the dog gets the last word . . . life as it should be."

--Jean Schulz, founder of the Charles M. Schulz Museum

About the Author

Brian Crane's Pickles is syndicated in over 900 newspapers worldwide. Crane has been nominated three times for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2013. In 2001, and again in 2019, Pickles won the prestigious National Cartoonist Society's Best Comic Strip of the Year. It has also been nominated for that award on three separate occasions. Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and twenty-one grandchildren.