Johnston, Lynn
Personal
Born May 28, , in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada; daughter of Mervyn (a jeweler) and Ursula (an artisan; maiden name, Bainbridge) Ridgway; married first husband (a cameraman), c. (divorced); married John Roderick Johnston (a dentist and pilot), February 15, ; children: (first marriage) Aaron Michael; (second marriage) Katherine Elizabeth. Education: Attended Vancouver School of Arts, Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, doll collecting, playing the accordion, co-piloting and navigating aircraft.
Addresses
Home—Corbeil, Ontario, Canada. Office—c/o Andrews & McMeel Publishing, Main St., Kansas City, MO
Career
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, worked as a medical artist, ; freelance commercial artist and writer, —; author and illustrator of "For Better or for Worse" cartoon strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, —. President, Lynn Johnston Productions, Inc.
Member
National Cartoonists Society (president, ).
Awards, Honors
Reuben Award, National Cartoonists Society, , for outstanding cartoonist of the year, and , for best newspaper comic strip; Gemini Award, , for television speci
Lynn Johnston (Born in ) is the Canadian creator of the comic strip, For Better or For Worse®. This family-based series has been syndicated since and was named Best Syndicated Comic Strip in At its peak, For Better or For Worse® appeared in more than 2, newspapers in 23 countries, and was translated into 8 languages for a devoted readership of more than million.
Johnston was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and grew up in British Columbia. After living in Manitoba and Ontario for many years, she now calls North Vancouver, BC home once again. Johnston was the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society in She has also received the Order of Canada and claims a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. In , Johnston retired from For Better or For Worse®, at which time the comic strip was republished from the beginning and is now in its 16th year of reruns.
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Which &#;hood are you in?
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
For Better or For Worse lives on, while cartoonist Lynn Johnston pursues new creative endeavours
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For nearly 30 years, Lynn Johnston wrote and drew For Better or For Worse, a comic strip that at its height ran in over 2, newspapers. Raised in North Vancouver, the cartoonist spent most of her cartooning career out east. She moved back to her hometown in , several years after retiring the strip.
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We caught up with Johnson to find out what she’s been up to:
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Q: Do you have any original comic art up on your walls?
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A: Oh yes. I have lots — by Will Eisner and Charles Schulz and Sergio Aragones, among others.
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About Lynn Johnston
Lynn's First Book
In , when Lynn discovered that she was expecting her first child, she left McMaster to start a freelance art business from home. During her pregnancy, Lynn’s obstetrician challenged her to draw cartoons for the ceilings above his examining tables. Before her baby was born, Lynn had presented Dr. Enkin with more than eighty pregnancy-related cartoons. These were to be displayed one at a time until her next visit when she would bring a new cartoon to replace the previous one—little did she know that he was carefully collecting them all. Dr. Enkin helped Lynn find a publisher for her collection. These cartoons were published in a book called David, We're Pregnant. Published in , this book sold over , copies! Lynn’s son Aaron was born in The following year, Lynn was divorced.
Second Book, Commercial Artist
In , Hi Mom, Hi Dad was published, a sequel to David, We're Pregnant. She continued to work for herself as a freelance, commercial artist out of a small, backyard greenhouse she had turned into a studio. With bills looming, Lynn took on whatever design jobs she could—if she could use her drawing skills, she would! She took on a
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