Brian Crane's Pickles is syndicated in over 900 newspapers worldwide. He has been nominated three times for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2013. As of the printing of the first edition of Pickles Tails: Volume One, Pickles is once again in the running for the National Cartoonist Society's Best Comic Strip of the Year, a prestigious award that the strip has been nominated for twice before, and that it won in 2001, and again in 2019. Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada, with his wife and family, which consists of seven children and twenty-one grandchildren.
Praise for Pickles: Pickles is going to be around for a long time, and I am glad we have this collection to look at over and over and over. - Charles M. Schulz on Pickles: I Paints 'Em As I Sees 'Em