Lynn Johnston is a Canadian cartoonist and author, best known for her newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.
Johnston at her induction into The Giants of the North: the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame in August 2008
Johnston's star on Canada's Walk of Fame
For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran originally from 1979 to 2008 chronicling the lives of the Patterson family and their friends, in the town of Milborough, a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario. Now running as reruns, For Better or For Worse is still seen in over 2,000 newspapers throughout Canada, the U.S., Mexico and around twenty other countries.
The Patterson family, the centre focus of For Better or For Worse
Panel excerpt of April and her friends commenting on sixth grade students and their fashion choices. Johnston received praise for her ability to take real world events and incorporate them into her story.