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.Pickles has been published since 1990.

Inspired by Crane's in-laws, the strip describes their efforts to enjoy retirement, which instead proves quite imperfect for both. 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, and Clyde, Earl's elderly friend.

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). A 25th anniversary retrospective, 25 Years of Pickles, was released by Baobab Press in 2015.