(Baby Blues) (Pickles) The question of real vs. artificial Christmas trees seems like one of those issues in which either argument makes sense and it comes down to what you want to believe and what you prefer to do. However, you aren’t hurting the forests by buying a real tree or saving them by purchasing […]
Jimmy Johnson has a dedicated following, but it was still ballsy of him to produce a comic using only Arlo & Janis’s former hairstyles as an indicator that it’s set in the past. I’m just pointing it out, not criticizing it, and he’s crafted a cartoon that stands up even if you didn’t realize it […]
Dogs of C Kennel raises several existential questions, though it doesn’t actually touch on the question of when “existential” became a thing. All of a sudden, I’m seeing all sorts of people cite such-and-such as an existential threat to their existence, which reminds me of when the Watergate hearings got everyone saying “at that point […]
Fantastic news for Pickles creator Brian Crane. Washington Post Writers Group has announced that Pickles has crossed the 800 paper milestone earlier this month. It was first launched in 1990. From the WPWG: Crane began the strip 22 years ago, while he was working full time at an advertising agency. He would drive home, have […]
Pickles creator Brian Crane was featured in BYU Magazine. The site appears to be down for the moment, but luckily YouTube isn’t. Here’s a video “The Art of Making Pickles” which includes some very early versions of his characters.
The Deseret News interviewed Pickles creator Brian Crane when he came through a couple of weeks ago for a book signing. Article covers how Brian got into comics, how the strip was originally perceived to be a 50 paper comic (now runs in over 700). Crane also originally envisioned Earl and Opal as “more cranky, […]
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) profiles Pickles creator Brian Crane who will be visiting Salt Lake City this Saturday for a book signing promoting his fifth comic collection, “How Come I Always Get Blamed For the Things I Do? A Pickles Collection” The book also comes as Brian crosses the 20 year milestone […]