For Better or For Worse is one of few comic strips that progress in real time. It’s one of the pioneers of this genre of comic art and it all begins with a story, recounting the lives and antics of the multi-generational Patterson family.
Think for a moment about how long it takes you to read the daily comic…8-10 seconds? Here you’ll learn about how much time goes into making FBorFW the best it can be.
It may be somewhat simplistic - the victim of writing for the widest possible audience - but this behind the scenes look at the creation of Lynn Johnson’s For Better Or Worse is well worth reading, not least of which for the detail it gives in what is needed to create the newspaper strip…
(Via Drawn).
September 21st, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Boy, there’s some purple prose in this.
Awww.
Still, an interesting look.
September 21st, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Somewhat simplistic sure but at times an important and deep strip.
How many people mourned when Farley died?
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:05 am
I did, and I was pretty young when that happened.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 am
I think “simplistic” was meant to modify the description of how a strip is made, NOT the strip, itself.
I think. Graeme? Explain yourself!
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:07 am
Farley died in what, ‘96? I swear, EVERYONE in school was talking about it that day. And I went to an all-male prep school. And this was my senior year.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:58 am
Augie has it, even if he insists on using smiley faces…
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I love this comic strip, but will forever stop reading it if Liz ends up with horrible Anthony. No one I know can stand him.