Tuesday, January 09, 2007
FBOFW to Stay
:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/09/2007 05:22:00 AM The big news in the Canadian and International comic strip world is that Lynn Johnston has decided to keep producing new For Better or for Worse strips after the previously announced date for the strip to end.
As reported in Editor and Publisher (link courtesy of Tom Spurgeon) yesterday, the strip will remain in papers as a hybrid, a combination of new framing sequences and classic strips from the past 28 years.
Johnston had previously complained of the grind of researching and drawing a daily strip for over a quarter century and had announced she would be ending the strip over the next year after winding up her current continuity with the intention of working on other projects and taking a few trips (and maybe returning to the characters off and on in other formats).
According to E&P:
In the hybrid, many previously published "FBorFW" strips and scenes will be reprinted. The jumping-off point for those comics (which could include some redrawn and recolorized content) might be Michael looking at old photos or scrapbooks.
Johnston will also offer a certain amount of new material about Michael; his sisters, Elizabeth and April; his parents, Elly and John; and various other major and supporting characters. But one of the signature elements of "FBorFW" — the gradual aging of its cast — will come to a halt. "What I'd like to do is freeze the characters at the ages they are now," said Johnston, who turns 60 this May. "No people will grow older. No dogs will grow older and pass away."
While the move may please many longtime fans, many other young cartoonists who may had been anticipating the massive hole in the daily comics page worldwide, with an eye towards greater syndication for their own strips, will now be disappointed. Blog reactions to this "rerun" news have been slow in coming out but Sequential will keep you posted.Labels: links, news, people
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