'For Better or For Worse' to end, begin again
By Pam Becker | [Chicago]TRIBUNE REPORTER
February 21, 2008
Comic strip artist Lynn Johnston relishes a challenge, and she isn't afraid to break tradition. These traits are front and center as the creator of "For Better or For Worse" negotiates an unprecedented path toward what she calls semi-retirement.
Johnston says she will end the current plotlines of her 29-year-old strip by September. Then she will do something unheard of in the comic strip world: start from the beginning again, rerunning the old strips -- but tinkering with some to "augment" or "fix some of the stuff," she says in a phone interview from her home in Corbeil, Ontario. She also will have to redraw a number of strips for which original images are missing, she says.
Comics expert Lucy Shelton Caswell says, "I am not aware of anybody doing [this] before." Caswell, interviewed by phone, is professor and curator of the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0221johnstonfeb21,0,7128798.story
February 21, 2008
Comic strip artist Lynn Johnston relishes a challenge, and she isn't afraid to break tradition. These traits are front and center as the creator of "For Better or For Worse" negotiates an unprecedented path toward what she calls semi-retirement.
Johnston says she will end the current plotlines of her 29-year-old strip by September. Then she will do something unheard of in the comic strip world: start from the beginning again, rerunning the old strips -- but tinkering with some to "augment" or "fix some of the stuff," she says in a phone interview from her home in Corbeil, Ontario. She also will have to redraw a number of strips for which original images are missing, she says.
Comics expert Lucy Shelton Caswell says, "I am not aware of anybody doing [this] before." Caswell, interviewed by phone, is professor and curator of the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0221johnstonfeb21,0,7128798.story