For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston by Lynn Johnston and Katherine Hadway is published by Goose Lane Editions to coincide with this exhibition. The book features some of Johnston’s most popular narratives, interspersed with an essay that chronicles the development of her drawing, her life, influences both personal and artistic, and the history of her wildly successful comic strip. This book also gathers together a generous selection of Lynn Johnston’s daily comic strips and Sunday pages, spanning the lives of the Patterson family. Whether readers are new to Johnston’s work or old fans returning to it once again, they’ll find this book to be a rich treasure of Johnston’s artistic work.
Lynn Johnston is most widely known as the creator of the
popular comic For Better or For Worse. Johnston lives in Corbeil, Ontario. She was the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society in 1985. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has
received the Order of Canada, and claims a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston by Lynn Johnston and Katherine Hadway will be published by Goose Lane Editions to coincide with this exhibition. The book features some of Johnston’s most popular narratives, interspersed with an essay that chronicles the development of her drawing, her life, influences both personal and artistic, and the history of her wildly successful comic strip. This book also gathers together a generous selection of Lynn Johnston’s daily comic strips and Sunday pages, spanning the lives of the Patterson family. Whether readers are new to Johnston’s work or old fans returning to it once again, they’ll find this book to be a rich treasury of Johnston’s artistic work.
Lynn Johnston is most widely known as the creator of the popular comic For Better or For Worse. Johnston lives in Corbeil, Ontario. She was the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society in 1985. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has received the Order of Canada, and claims a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.