For Better or For Worse®: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston looks at the career of popular comic artist, Lynn Johnston. Throughout her career, Johnston consistently drew from her own life and personal experiences. This exhibition charts the ways that her experiences made their way into her work, culminating in an exploration of the much loved characters and stories of For Better or For Worse®.
For old fans and new, For Better or For Worse®: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston shows selections from the comic’s 29-year history, highlighting the characters that readers know and love, and including fan responses to the comic strip.
Publication
For Better or For Worse® the Comic Art of Lynn Johnston
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 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.
About The Artist
Lynn Johnston
Lynn Johnston is most widely known as the creator of the popular comic For Better or For Worse®. Johnston lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She was the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society in 1986. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, has received the Order of Canada, and claims a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame.
