Thunder Bay Art Gallery Event

For Better or Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Jhnston

January 15 – March 6, 2016
Organized by the Art Gallery of Sudbury

For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston looks at the career of popular comic artist Lynn Johnston. The exhibition explores influences on her early work and the way her drawing style changes over time in the popular comic strip For Better or For Worse.

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.

Throughout her career Johnston consistently draws from her own life and experiences. The exhibition charts the ways that she drew from her personal experiences from an early age, and her continuous habit of including those experiences in her artwork eventually developing the much-loved characters of For Better or For Worse.