"For Better or For Worse" Part 2

Yesterday, I wrote about this great comic strip that ended Sunday with a wrap up, but we are really happy to know that it will go back to the beginning in 1979 and run the strips.

Yesterday, the Tribune ran a viewpoint article by Pam Becker titled "Cartoonist makes best of the worst."

"On Sunday, a journey that started on newspaper comics pages nearly thirty years ago ended as it began--with its maverick creator, Lyn Johnston, bucking comic strip tradition."

She has been promising to end it for several years now and she wrapped up a lot of loose ends. And then Monday, it started over again and will also have new ones with further observation done up in her drawing style of the time. I just hope that they will indicate when the strip is a new one.

Liz and I didn't start following it until the Chicago Tribune picked it up and we think that was sometime in the mid 1980s.


PERSONAL LIFE

Lyn Johnston has had a rocky life and, after her first marriage failed, found herself as a single mom raising a child. Then, she married dentist Rod Johnston in 1975 and things got better.

The strip debuted September 9, 1979, and was based on her life together as John and Elly Patterson. It is one of the most-popular comic strips ever with a distribution in around 2,000 newspapers worldwide.

She would write down the little stories of day-to-day life and that became the basis of her work.

Unfortunately, Rod left her in April 2006, but that did not come into play in the final episodes.

Looking forward to catching up on the "lost" episodes.

Sure Glad We Didn't Lose "For Better or For Worse." --RoadDog

"For Better or For Worse" Over, But Not Over

We've known it was coming and sure weren't looking forward to it, but this past Saturday was the last new strip of Liz and my favorite comic strip, For Better or For Worse. It ended with just-married Elizabeth and Anthony (something we were all pulling for) visiting Grandpa Jim and wife Iris in the hos[ital, with the very last words being "For Better or For Worse."

The following day, in the Sunday strip, we got to see a look into the future of all the main characters. It ended with us being told that the strip will enter a new era. What could that mean?

This past Monday, we saw that the strip was going to run again from its beginning, ala "Peanuts." Now, that is good news.

Long Live For Better or For Worse!!! --RoadDog