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How Pickles Cartoonist's Wife Sparked His Journey of Faith (with Brian Crane)

Brian Crane spent 17 years in advertising, sure he did not have the talent to draw a comic strip. His wife kept asking him to try, so at 40 he mailed in the strip he expected to be rejected. The Washington Post Syndicate said yes. More than 35 years later, Brian is the creator of Pickles, the beloved strip about Earl and Opal that appears in nearly a thousand newspapers, and the winner of the Reuben Award, cartooning's highest honor. He is also a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has spent his career tucking temples, Church magazines, and the words of…

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