Editor and Publisher ran a story last Friday that had just about every For Better or For Worse fan in North America doing a spit-take. It seems cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s husband of many years, and the model for John Patterson, left her for another woman this past spring:

But there’s a silver lining of sorts in the breakup of the marriage, which will probably officially end in divorce next April. Johnston, who’s feeling much better about the separation than she did this spring, has been devoting more time to her hybrid comic than initially planned. And she intends to continue doing so — meaning there’ll be more “new” in the new-old “FBorFW” than anyone could have expected.”The sudden change in my life has given me a lot more need to focus on my work,” said Johnston, who noted that one reason she had wanted to stop doing “FBorFW” was to share retirement with Rod, who had ended his career as a dentist.

There’s a lot more interesting information about the new “hybridization” of the strip in the story, but really, my head’s reeling so much with that initial news that I had a little trouble taking it in.

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