For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston
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About For Better or For Worse
Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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SAMROMBAOA said, about 1 year ago
I really miss the other FBFW strips. I can relate to so many of their life stories.
danac44 said, about 1 year ago
Me too. I don’t know whether I am going to be able to adjust to this. I wanted to see the story continue. But I’m trying.
Nugget0 said, about 1 year ago
I was Mom to a boy that had a pet goldfish named Mr. Ed and the fish lived for a year in a small bowl like the one in the strip. I changed his water every day and talked to him. One day I bought him an aquarium. When I transferred him from the bowl to the aquarium, he didn’t move for about ten minutes - then he discovered he could swim and he zipped all over the place! I loved Mr. Ed
cfortunato
said,
about 1 year ago
Anybody who keeps a goldfish alive in a bowl for a year is gifted. Of course, it helped that you were one of the few with the sense to change the water every day. In an aquarium, once a week is enough.
I’m reading the new-old strips. They’re fine. This one bothers me though because fish shouldn’t be kept in bowls, and I’m worried about what they’re going to do to that poor fish.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago
Yeah that sucks. Do people have pets like this for their own morbid pleasure ? It cant be that much fun living in such a restricted environment. It reminds me of the little dog chained to the tree in MUTTS.
IGoPogo2 said, about 1 year ago
I was SO excited about the rebirthing of the strip. I read off and on over the years and look forward to filling in the gaps. Fortunately I can come here to do so.
In a display of editorial wisdom The Washington Post saw fit to drop FBOFW after last Sunday and replace it with yet another talking animal strip.
How novel.
JmcaRice said, about 1 year ago
and the newspapers wonder why their readership is declining by the day. They blame it on technology or anything else but their own stupid decisions. The mandarins in the ivory tower run their little fiefdoms for their own pleasure.
George P Webster said, about 1 year ago
I’m sorry Lynn Johnston had so much difficulty coping with her divorce, and that she did not carry the story line of the strip forward into her new reality. She’s limiting her art and life to her “motherhood’ period She should’ve given Elly a makeover and had her take up with a younger man. I hope Lynn does the same. John could’ve messed around with a new dental assistant, who becomes disenchanted with the old fuddy duddy with the trains. My daughter’s the same age as April, and I’m disappointed that the storyline as ended. I don’t want to watch Farley die again, anymore than I want us to replay the deaths of our own dogs. As far as we really know, life only goes by once.
geeknerd said, about 1 year ago
Wasn’t this strip originally drawn by Lynn and her former husband? If so, I’m glad she got custody of the strip.
Jahosacat said, about 1 year ago
I’m interested enough in the strip to read for a while, but…. I don’t like showing a fish being mistreated - it teaches kids that goldfish can live in small bowls and THEY CAN’T. In reality unless she shows the water being changed every day in a week she had better sow the fish dead and the parents explaining to the kids about death.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago
Good point jahosacat. This fishy business should be turned into a lesson which I think it will as Lynn raised her own babies and has no doubt seen her share of senseless stupidity and ignorant displays of brutality by small children.
summerdog said, about 1 year ago
Don’t worry, George Webster. According to everything I have read about the new strips, Farley will not die again. Lynn is keeping the family from aging this time around. They will remain the same…a young couple with two little kids…and a forever Farley.
WickedCrazy said, about 1 year ago
Summerdog Iread that somewhere also,but I thought it was going to be with Michael and his family.
JosePeterson said, about 1 year ago
It was actually 29 years ago today that this strip premiered.
JosePeterson said, about 1 year ago
Actually also on 9/3/79 Nermal made his debut in “Garfield”
gimmickgenius
said,
about 1 year ago
Huh. I remember when Lawrence was a white kid.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago
The one world, one people concept makes its debut - 9/3/08.
TheWildSow said, about 1 year ago
gimmickgenius – in my B&W newspaper, he still is!
lleekard said, about 1 year ago
The Sprinfield, MA Rupublican droped FBOFW BEFORE last Sunday and replaced it with yet another talking animal strip.
Boring.