Brian crane cartoonist biography graphic organizer

American cartoonist

Brian Crane is an American cartoonist who created Pickles, a comic strip featuring a retired couple, Earl and Opal Pickles, their family, and their family pets, Muffin (cat) and Roscoe (dog).

Crane was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, but was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.^[2] According to his mother, Crane began drawing at an young age and had hopes to become a comic strip artist when he was older.^[3] Crane served a church mission in Uruguay and in 1973 he graduated with a BA degree from Brigham Young University with an emphasis on design and illustration.^[4]

As Crane got older, he felt that he lacked the talent and sense of humor needed to write material for a successful daily comic strip, so he pursued a career in graphic design and art direction and for a time was employed with art studios, publishing companies, and advertising agencies.

As Crane neared the age of forty, he became disillusioned and grew tir