A collection of cartoons captures everyday life in the Patterson family, as John and Emily confront middle age, Elizabeth deals with college life and independence, Michael secretly marries Deanna, and April learns about bullies.
Michael travels to Winnipeg to work on his Aunt and Uncle's farm for the summer and takes his driving test, Elizabeth is discovering boys, makeup and designer clothes while struggling to fit in with the "In Crowd", and April starts teething ...
This is the magic of For Better of For Worse: it is real life at its most realistic. Like real life, it is unpredictable, enlightening, heartwarming, honest, sometimes sad, and often very funny.
Cartoons take a humorous look at family life, including Elly's unexpected pregnancy, the adolescent traumas of Michael, and of course Elly's never-ending housework woes.
Farley gracefully exits the strip in Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection as he saves young April from the Sharon River, and is remembered as a hero.
Cartoons look at family life, the death of a grandparent, college, adolescence, middle age, and other events in the life of the Patterson family
Plus, Uncle Phil begins a new relationship and the Enjo family moves next door. Lynn Johnston's signature style becomes more defined and her storylines more complex as we carry on through the eighties.
Leaving Home not only relays how to avoid common pitfalls, but also how to get out after you've landed in them face first! Pearls of wisdom and insightful cartoons make this a must-read for anyone starting life on their own.
Cartoons offer a humorous look at family life, house hunting, adolescence, peer pressure, school, middle age, conventions, latchkey children, Christmas shopping, skiing, the flu, and dating.
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Humorous and touching, Graduation: Just the Beginning! celebrates the many passages children make-from kindergarten all the way to college and on to the excitement that life "in the real world" promises.
Collects comics from the early days of the strip about the Patterson household.
Since their debut in 1979, the world has watched the Pattersons grow up in real time--and to many readers, they feel like family.
The strip's creator, Lynn Johnston, has been honored with a Pulitzer nomination, earned the prestigious Reuben Award, is a past president of the National Cartoonists' Society and has been awarded with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Join the Patterson family of For Better or For Worse cartoon strip fame in celebrating all the craziness, joy, love, and true meaning that the Christmas season brings.
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America's favorite cartoonist, (Ladies Home Journal) is the winner of the 1985 National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for best cartoon.
The characters from the comic strip appear in book form to illustrate the ups and downs of life as a family member
The popular family comic strip, syndicated in more than one thousand newspapers, returns with a collection of touching and humorous cartoons. Original.
"In a highly competitive field, Johnston has won fame by culling amusing and sometimes poignant insights of family life from her own experience".--The Wall Street Journal.