I live on the Vancouver North Shore on the same street where I grew up. I continue to work in my studio here and am producing new material all the time.
What do you do?
I have been a cartoonist ever since I was three (according to relatives) and have made my living working in animation, as a medical artist, a graphic artist and as a comic strip creator. For nearly 30 years, I created the syndicated comic strip, “For Better or For Worse.” I retired from the comic strip in 2008, but have continued to create fabric patterns, paint and work on new projects.
Thanks to Mina Kerr-Lazenby for this article in North Shore News:
In the first few weeks of 2024, eagle eyed Lynn Johnston fans will likely have spotted hints of something new and exciting to come from the famous cartoonist. On Johnston’s website and social media pages were drawings, but not of John, Elly, Farley and the rest of the For Better or For Worse gang.
Instead they were of Johnston herself. One saw the artist slumped over her studio desk, daydreaming of a light blue robot and his mechanical canine friend. Another depicted Johnston wandering a nature trail, sketchpad and pencil in hand, drawing the sea of colourful robotic characters that surrounded her.
The sketches served as the first introduction to Alottabotz, the robotic world at the centre of a new series of children’s picture books written and illustrated by the artist.