Millions of readers share a daily relationship with Johnston and her cartoon family, the Pattersons, in the strip "For Better or for Worse." That long association is honored through this one-of-a-kind collection featuring Johnston's musings and comments about her real life.

Struggling to adjust to their new lives, Mike and Deanna discover that an unexpected baby is on the way, while Grandpa Jim and Iris elope to England, and Elizabeth dumps her unfaithful boyfriend, in cartoons from the comic strip.

A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of "For Better or for Worse". A look back, in scrapbook format, over some of the Patterson family's most memorable moments, with individual chapters for Elly, John, Michael, Elizabeth, and April. Creator Johnston's commentary adds a behind-the-scenes element, as she describes some of her thoughts about the strip over the years.

A Better or Worse collection.

Spring has finally arrived and Farley can't remember where he buried his bone last fall, so he digs under Elly's flower beds, John's model train set, and in Lizzie's sandbox until he remembers the special place where he left it.

In her touchingly funny daily strip, Lynn Johnston gives her fans realistic characters who humorously deal with both the good and bad that life gives them. Every day, Johnston demonstrates--through hormonal children and parents who aren't always right--that life goes on For Better or For Worse. In Middle Age Spread, parents John and Elly have started to notice their own aging process: the increasing need for glasses, exercise, and computer skills....