"For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston"

"For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston" looks at the career of popular comic artist Lynn Johnston, exploring influences on her early work and and how her drawing style changed over time. "For Better or For Worse" underwent many changes, taking the comic from a glimpse into the everyday home life of the Patterson family, to a comic with three-dimensional characters that seemed like real people. Seeing Elly Patterson and her family go through familiar situations added to the overwhelming success of the strip. Lynn Johnston lives in Corbeil, in eastern Ontario, and is the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society in 1985. She has a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, and she has been inducted into the National Cartoon Museum Hall of Fame and the Canadian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame. “For Better or For Worse” appears in more than 2,000 newspapers in Canada, the United States and 23 other countries. The Art Gallery of Sudbury organized and circulated the exhibit. The traveling exhibition also inspired the Thunder Bay Art Gallery to organize a concurrent exhibition of illustrative art by local artists called "Unconstrained: Comic Art by Five Emerging Artists."