Pickles (comic strip)
| Pickles | |
|---|---|
 The main cast of Pickles | |
| Author(s) | Brian Crane |
| Website | gocomics.com/pickles |
| Current status / schedule | Running |
| Launch date | 1990 |
| Syndicate(s) | The Washington Post Writers Group |
| Publisher(s) | Baobab Press |
| Genre(s) | Humor |
Pickles is a daily and Sunday comic strip by Brian Crane focusing on a retired couple in their seventies, Earl and Opal Pickles.[1][2] Pickles has been published since 1990.[3]
Cast
Inspired by Crane's in-laws,[4] the strip describes their efforts to enjoy retirement, which instead proves quite imperfect for both.[3] Earl Pickles is characterized as having a bald head, glasses, and a bushy white mustache, and wears suspenders. Opal Pickles is characterized as somewhat chubby, bespectacled, and is often seen wearing purple polka-dotted dresses and white sneakers. When sitting, she is usually seen with her pet cat in her lap. Both characters were drawn with their eye pupils visible through their glasses during the strip's early years, but their glasses were later whitened so that they are opaque to readers.
The cast includes their dog Roscoe and their cat Muffin; their grandson Nelson Wolfe and his parents—their daughter Sylvia and her husband Dan, a wildlife photographer.[2]
Awards and honors
- In 2001, Pickles was named best newspaper comic strip of the year by the National Cartoonists Society.[5]
- In 2013, Brian Crane shared the Reuben Award with Rick Kirkman.[6]
Bibliography
The strips have been collected in book form in Pickles (1998), Pickles, Too: The Older I Get, The Better I Was (1999), Still Pickled After All These Years (2002), Let's Get Pickled! (2006), How Come I Always Get Blamed for the Things I Do? (2010), and Oh Sure! Blame it on the Dog! (2013).[2] A 25th anniversary retrospective, 25 Years of Pickles, was released by Baobab Press in 2015.[3]
References
- ↑ Wadley, Carma (February 20, 2011). "A cartoon family: Popular 'Pickles' captures humanity of humans". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Publishing Company. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Pickles". The Washington Post Writers Group. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- 1 2 3 Kitchen, Rebecca (October 23, 2015). "Creating 25 Years of Laughs: 'Pickles' Comic Turns 25". Reno, NV: KOLO-TV. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ↑ "The Art of Making Pickles". BYU Magazine. Summer 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Division Awards: Newspaper Strips". National Cartoonists Society. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Parkin, JK (May 26, 2013). "National Cartoonist Society announces Reuben, divisional awards". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
External links
- Pickles comic strip at GoComics.com
- Pickles comic strip at Arcamax.com