Brian Crane is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Pickles. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2001[1] for his work on the strip. Mr. Crane is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and sometimes draws LDS temples or periodicals as background props in the Pickles comic strip.[2] Crane lives in Sparks, Nevada.
Crane received a bachelors degree from BYU in 1973.