Brian Crane
Brian Crane is the creator and cartoonist of the Pickles syndicated comic strip. Crane is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also called the Mormon Church. He graduated with an art degree from Brigham Young University in 1973. For the next 17 years he worked as an illustrator, designer and art director in advertising and publishing, but yearned to develop his own comic strip. He created Pickles in 1990, but was rejected by three syndicates.
With the encouragement of his wife, Diana, he submitted it to the Washington Post’s Writers Group and it was accepted. Pickles became one of the Post's favorite strips. Now Pickles appears in over 500 newspapers worldwide. Crane and his wife have seven children and seven grandchildren and live in Nevada.
