What has Lynn been up to since she retired? She enjoys painting with acrylics, and we’ve collected some of her art here so you can have a look. We just added a few pieces she recently finished.
We’re looking into ways of offering prints of her art; please let us know if you would be interested in ordering them, if we added prints to our shop!
Sometimes people write to us asking why For Better or For Worse is suddenly gone from their local paper. Every paper’s comics section is managed by that newspaper’s editors, and they make judgement calls about which strips to run, based on comments from readers and different market factors.
We generally aren’t told when a paper drops the strip, but we do know that editors value customer feedback – if you’d like to see FBorFW reinstated, please just write a nice note to your paper’s editors and ask! It often works.
We like to cheer on the underdogs because their fortune is a kind of reassurance that there is, in fact, a way to beat the odds and succeed. The Pattersons encounter a few underdogs and it’s not always obvious who they are. Here are five of the most loved characters who we either didn’t expect to succeed, or whom we didn’t really think of as underdogs right away.
We’re excited to announce that For Better or For Worse t-shirts are now available as an online exclusive from Hot Topic! We’ve got Farley designs as well as ones featuring Mike, Liz, and April and also a couple never-before-seen drawings by Lynn!
Get em while they’re hot!
We’ve been putting together a collection of recipes for foods that have appeared in the comic over the years, or in the calendars we’ve published in years past. You can see the whole series of recipes here. This one is a Johnston family recipe for a from-scratch chocolate cake. Hope you enjoy!
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine cocoa, water, and milk in sauce pan and whisk until smooth. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from stove and add butter (stir until melted). Add sugar, vanilla, and egg. Whisk until smooth.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Add to chocolate mixture and whisk until smooth. Pour batter into a lightly greased 8 inch cake pan and bake for 25 minutes.
To make icing, mix together icing sugar, cocoa, and water until smooth. Carefully spread over HOT cake (fresh from the oven ). Allow cake to cool before serving.
I rarely eat chocolate cake, but this one’s too good to resist.