Karen, I love Pickles. THere use to be a cartoon in the military paper STARS AND STRIPES that reminded me of Pickles and it might just have been pickles. The grand dad and grand mother are the same and the little girl was Ruthie. She was me up one side and down the other. I wonder if it is the same? But, I wouldn't miss Pickles or the daily paper for anything.....Dennis the Menace, Dagwood, Garfield, but the top of it all is my darling babies in Family Circus! Love my funnies. I use to love Lil Abner and Snuffy Smith and they've removed them. I'm going to go search some sites. thanks for the thought, Blessings, Ruth