Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman


1140 Lynn Johnston, cartoonist, "For Better or For Worse" 2019

October 03, 2019

2019: On any given day, “For Better or For Worse” could be funny, sweet, bittersweet or hauntingly dramatic – just like life in my own family or yours. Perhaps nothing about the strip was more shocking than the day in 2008 that cartoonist Lynn Johnston announced she would no longer be producing new strips but would be re-releasing the original from day one, with occasional fixes to continuity and timeliness. Would that even work? It has and it does--the strip appears in 2,000 newspapers in 23 countrie