News Article in the Kansas City Star: Lynn Johnston's "For Better or for Worse" will continue in flashback form
Posted: September 7, 2007 | News Bites Home

Lynn Johnston’s ‘For Better or For Worse’ will continue in flashback form
By BRIAN McTAVISH
The Kansas City Star

Lynn Johnston’s nearly 30-year-old comic strip, “For Better or for Worse,� was supposed to end this month upon her long-planned retirement. But the 60-year-old Canadian cartoonist’s plans have changed.

“At one point I used to say: ‘September, September, September,’ said. “But you can’t end a 30-year-long story like that. It’s too complicated. There are too many (characters) involved, and there are too many unfinished episodes.�

So the popular strip chronicling the ups and downs of the Patterson family in more than 2,000 newspapers, including The Star, will now wind up its current storyline sometime in 2008, partly using reprint material framed as flashbacks.

After that, “For Better or for Worse� will restart three decades in the past and continue indefinitely as a hybrid of mostly classic strips with only occasional new work from Johnston.

Johnston talked this week from her studio just outside North Bay, Ontario.

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