Lynn Johnston to end, then begin again "For Better or For Worse"

[terrya]

I've never heard of a cartoonist doing this, either. It will be interesting to see.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0221johnstonfeb21,0,7128798.story

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I've never heard of such a thing either. (And it's too bad about her marriage. :^( )

[ThomCat]

5. Given that the the parents were modelled after her and her husband

that does sort of change things. :(

They were sort of an ideal couple in the strip.

I read somwhere that everyone except April was modeled after someone real in her family. April was the only fabricated main character.

[terrya]

6. I think Laurence, Michael's friend, was modelled after her brother.

Her brother is gay, apparently. And she modelled Laurence after her brother came out as gay. I appreciated that she drew the storyline of Laurence coming out. I understand she got some ugly hate mail after that, though.

[ThomCat]

7. There were some awesome, progressive plots that really

had good messages. :)

[Blue Diadem]

9. She has written about Lawrence's story on her website.

http://www.fborfw.com/features/lawrence/index.php

I remember that time frame. I must have been totally ignorant..I had no idea she or the papers had received such hate mail.

and you're close..it was a brother-in-law that inspired Lawrence's story.

http://www.fborfw.com/features/research/index.php?page=people

I'm sad to see the strip ending in the way we've known it.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. That's too bad - the starting it up again part, I mean

Never thought it was very entertaining.

[jane_pippin]

3. I learned to read in part because of that strip

The kids were around my age and I liked seeing what they were up to. I even wrote her a letter and sent her one of my favorite strips and she wrote back and sent the strip back, signed.

I agree--it will be interesting to see what she does with it.

[Blue Diadem]

4. I've noticed the flash back strips for a while and wondered

where she was going with that. I hope it all works out for her. In case anyone is interested, she does have a website:

http://www.fborfw.com/index.php

She's also affiliated with The Farley Foundation.

Snip:

The Farley Foundation helps sick and injured pets that belong to low-income seniors and people with disabilities.

http://www.farleyfoundation.org/welcome.html


http://www.farleyfoundation.org/from_lynn.html

[BuelahWitch]

8. Darn, this is one of the few comics I really like

:cry:

[Mad_Dem_X]

10. I *thought* I was seeing older strips

The ones running in my local paper seemed old (the original kids were still children). That explains why.

[Adams Wulff]

11. Huge risk, really...

At the time FBOFW debuted, the timing was right for the strip, and steamrolled into a huge success. Timing is everything in the comics, as it is with most everything.

Should be interesting to see how she pulls this off.