The Complete Library, Volume 8 Is Now Available!

The eighth volume of our Complete Library treasury series is out now! Get your copy from your favourite book seller.

The Patterson family drama continues in this penultimate volume in the series. Elizabeth begins her teaching career when she graduates from university and moves to the fictional Indigenous town of Mtigwaki in northern Ontario, Michael’s writing career shifts gears when he goes freelance but finds it isn’t easy to manage when their second child is on the way, and April enters her teenage years, starts high school, and forms a garage band called 4Evah.

Meanwhile, Elly and John begin the process of retiring when Elly sells Lilliputs. For Better or For Worse continues to delight readers of every age in this saga spanning four generations of Pattersons! Collecting every strip from May 4, 2003 to July 29, 2006.

Meet Lynn at Indigo in Burnaby, B.C. on Saturday March 30th

B.C. residents: come and meet Lynn at a book signing in Burnaby! She’ll be signing her new Alottabotz children’s books.

Lynn Johnston holding her three Alottabotz children's books.

Date: March 30th
Time: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm 
Store Location: Indigo at Metrotown
Metropolis at Metrotown, 4700 Kingsway,
Burnaby, BC

We hope to see you there! You can bring any For Better or For Worse® books you’d like signed!

“A Day in the Life” with Vancouver Cartoonist Lynn Johnston

Thanks to Emilea Semancik for this “A Day in the Life” feature in the Vancouver Guardian! Read the full article for more Q and A with Lynn, plus some pictures from her latest project.

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 to relatives) and have made my living working in animation, as a medical artist, a graphic artist and as a comic strip creator. For nearly 30 years, I created the syndicated comic strip, “For Better or For Worse.” I retired from the comic strip in 2008, but have continued to create fabric patterns, paint and work on new projects.

Want to see more? Continue reading here.

For Better or For Worse comic artist Lynn Johnston ventures into kids books

Photo by Paul McGrath

Thanks to Mina Kerr-Lazenby for this article in North Shore News:

In the first few weeks of 2024, eagle eyed Lynn Johnston fans will likely have spotted hints of something new and exciting to come from the famous cartoonist. On Johnston’s website and social media pages were drawings, but not of John, Elly, Farley and the rest of the For Better or For Worse gang.

Instead they were of Johnston herself. One saw the artist slumped over her studio desk, daydreaming of a light blue robot and his mechanical canine friend. Another depicted Johnston wandering a nature trail, sketchpad and pencil in hand, drawing the sea of colourful robotic characters that surrounded her.

The sketches served as the first introduction to Alottabotz, the robotic world at the centre of a new series of children’s picture books written and illustrated by the artist.

Read the rest of the article here: https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/lynn-johnston-alottabotz-8213914