FBOFW Wraps Up Last Week In Current Incarnation; Heads Into New Waters



Lynn Johnston's mega-popular For Better Or For Worse will reportedly make its shift over the holiday weekend from its current "new storylines interrupted at times by older storylines that may or may have not been tweaked a bit" version to its new incarnation as new but using older storylines. (I think.) It's been about two full years since the strip's ultimate fate has been a part of almost monthly tweaking and constant speculation, and the final fate of the strip was actually kept under wraps until I think the cartoonist's appearance at the Doug Wright Awards and a subsequent scramble by the syndicate to disseminate information as to exactly what was going to happen starting next week. I think it's been handled kind of poorly, to be honest, which is a shame because it was a really good strip for a really long time, Johnston's been a class act since basically forever, and newspapers don't really need to have such odd and frequently incomplete information out there on a tent-pole attraction. I'm sure there will be some tough decisions regarding the strip over the next few weeks.

For today, though, and through the weekend, I'd suggest we put aside thing like our feelings on the way various storylines turned out (although this nearly-perfect on-line rant is always worth a re-read, even more so given how things developed) and appreciate the cartoonist's achievement. I can't think of too many North American art form where for even a brief period of time its generally most successful and well-liked practitioner was a woman, and I think the obvious affection with which people regard her strip -- enough to kvetch about it -- is to her work's credit. Our congratulations to Lynn Johnston on finishing one part of her life and moving into another.
 
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