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For Better or For Worse - The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston (Paperback)
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For Better or For Worse - The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston (Paperback)
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List price R657
Loot Price R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
You Save R109 (17%)
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For thirty years, cartoonist Lynn Johnston made daily additions to
what would become a monumental body of work: her newspaper comic
strip, For Better or For Worse. Chronicling the daily lives of the
middle-class suburbanite Patterson family -- Elly and John and
their children, Michael, Elizabeth, and April -- Johnston's strip
was ground-breaking in its adherence to narrative and emotional
realism, and its refusal to engage in melodrama, superpowers, or
anthropomorphic animals. As the syndicated strips appeared in daily
newspapers throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the
2000s, these characters aged with their readers, and their trials
and tribulations were the same as those of their readers: the daily
struggles of work, family, school, and bureaucracy.Wildly funny and
formally innovative, For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn
Johnston was published to coincide with an international touring
exhibition of Lynn Johnston's work, organized by the Art Gallery of
Sudbury. The book features some of Johnston's most popular
narratives, interspersed with an essay that chronicles the
development of her drawing, her life, influences both personal and
artistic, and the history of her wildly successful comic strip.
This book also gathers together a generous selection of Lynn
Johnston's daily comic strips and Sunday pages, spanning the lives
of the Patterson family.Whether readers are new to Johnston's work
or old fans returning once again, they'll find this book to be a
rich treasury of For Better or For Worse.
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