For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979. The strip is set in the fictitious Toronto-area suburb town of Milborough, Ontario; it chronicles the lives of a Canadian family and their friends. It is seen in over 2,000 newspapers throughout Canada, the United States and about 20 other countries, and is translated into eight languages from its native English. The title is a reference to the marriage service in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: A "signature element" of FBorFW during the first 28 years of the strip's existence was that the characters aged in "real time", except for the initial two years. The strip will end the real-time aspect sometime in 2008. Beginning on September 3, 2007, For Better or For Worse changed to a format featuring a mixture of new, old and retouched work, which allowed Johnston to "keep alive her partly autobiographical comic while not having to devote as much time to it." Johnston's work on the comic strip...