Brian Crane (1) (1949–)
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- Crane, Raymond Brian
- Geburtstag
- 1949
- Geschlecht
- male
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- USA
- Geburtsort
- Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
- Wohnorte
- Bay Area, California, USA
Sparks, Nevada, USA - Ausbildung
- Brigham Young University (Art|1973)
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- comic strip writer-artist
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Brian Crane was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began drawing at an early age, according to accounts by his mother, and hoped to grow up to be a comic strip artist. But as he got older he didn’t think he had the writing talent or sense of humor to be able to come up with material for a daily comic strip, so he became an graphic designer and art director instead, working for publishing companies, art studios and advertising agencies.
Along the way he graduated with a BA degree from Brigham Young University in 1973, married his college sweetheart, Diana Long, and they had seven children. When he got near the age of forty he began reminiscing about his childhood dream of doing a newspaper comic strip, so he created “Pickles,” a strip about an elderly couple and their daughter, grandson and pets.
It became syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group in 1990, and today appears in around 1000 newspapers around the world. In 2001 it was awarded the prize for Best Comic Strip by the National Cartoonist Society. In 2005 and 2011 he was a nominee for Cartoonist of the Year by the same group. In 2013 he won the Reuben award for cartoonist of the year from the National Cartoonist Society. Crane creates “Pickles” from a studio in his home in Sparks, NV. His daughter Emily colors the daily and Sunday strips for him. Brian and his wife Diana recently celebrated their forty fifth wedding anniversary and are looking forward to the birth of their 18th grandchild in October.
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Pickles von Brian Crane
Gently amusing jokes about quietly neurotic people. I’m not sure I’ll bother reading David’s other cartoon books, but I think this was okay. Pretty good; maybe I’ll read other cartoon books, you know. It’s not that I’d want people to talk to me like this, but they actually have said much worse things to me than this in my life, which in terms of the mind and the imagination and the negativity bias of the same, is pretty good, you know. And unlike a lot of Serious Big Education Scary Cosmic Moral Truth people, I didn’t walk away thinking that I had to make excuses for David, you know. Some people are just so clever, they just don’t need to be polite, because they’re just so damn important. Well, but this is what I meant—you ask the mind to think; it starts to go off the tracks. Maybe that’s why that Indian guy what was his name, Sadhguru, he said he reads those Ancient Gaul comic books, and not the scriptures…. A husband and wife who don’t get along that well is a very minor catastrophe, very minor. And they’re different—they’re old. And—I mean, I never walked away with a big a-ha knowing, you know, but: I mean, it’s clever, how he can kinda take apart ordinary unconsciousness and carelessly uttered phrases, you know. So, it’s fine. And unlike some times when I say that, that’s not an excuse.… (mehr)
I've become quite a fan of this funny strip about an older couple who have a dog, a cat, and (I think) a divorced daughter with a young son who has boomeranged home. After 20 years Brian Crane has his humor, pacing and characters down pat; the strip won the 2013 Reuben Award. It's a delicate balancing act to portray Earl and Opal as Crane does, always lightly bickering and getting on each others' nerves, but with an obvious hidden core of solid affection that I think has only come out explicitly once or twice. The strip is never mean, always funny (sometimes hilariously so), never sentimental, and never contrived. I can't think of another more deserving candidate for the Reuben except for Cul de Sac, which won the previous year.… (mehr)
The first collection of a gently funny comic strip about an older married couple and their live-in daughter and grandson. I don't know another strip like this, with the constant banter and put-downs between Earl and Opal, but the underlying current is one of loving acceptance of each other. Very good debut for a strip that has only gotten better.
This strip deserves more notice than it's gotten; it's really a good, quietly funny (occasionally hilarious) strip about an older married couple who enjoy needling each other, but it never comes off as mean-spirited, and occasionally there's a strip that shows the rarely-expressed affection and esteem they hold for each other.And the supporting players are all very good, with distinctive and believable personalities.
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