Lynn Johnston

Lynn Johnston ( born May 28, 1947 in Collingwood, Ontario ) is a Canadian comic book artist. She was the first Canadian and the first woman to win the Reuben Award.

Lynn Ridgeway grew up in the province of British Columbia and attended the Vancouver School of Art in the hope of becoming an artist. After a short period at the cartoon she married in 1969 and moved back to Ontario. For five years she worked as a medical illustrator. When her pregnancy she drew cartoons that were published in 1973 as her first book. Two years after their divorce, she married Rod Johnston. 1978, the Johnstons and their two children have settled in Manitoba, Universal Press Syndicate asked if they would be interested to draw a comic strip. She sent samples of work one entitled The Johnstons, a comic based on her own family. She was awarded the contract and in 1979 was in many newspapers in Canada, the U.S. and many other countries of the strip For Better or For Worse (German: In good and bad ) presented. Johnston drew the strongly autobiographical Strip for nearly 30 years. The special feature of the comic was that the characters aged in real time, so the children grew up in the series and were finally grown up and working. The main plot of the Strip ended on August 30, 2008. Afterwards they began to repeat old episodes in combination with newly drawn parts.

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