"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 drawn the strip daily for the past 35 years
Pickles appears in over 900 newspapers nationwide
Author Biography
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.