Meet Earl and Opal Pickles. They’ve been married for more than 50 years and after all these years of togetherness, their daily conversations go like this: Opal: Didn’t you wear those sa… ...

And so, in a recent poll to find a comic strip to replace "Cathy," Hart was emphatic about her choice. She voted for "Pickles," the overwhelming winner with 41 percent of the vote.

I was going to give up, but my wife believed in it, she wore me down and I gave in,'' said Crane, the author of the enormously popular “Pickles” comic strip. Millions of fans are glad he did.