Cartoonist lynn johnston biography
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I was born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, and inom grew up in British Columbia. My father was a jeweler, my mother a calligrapher and bookkeeper—both were musical, artistic and creative people. We were a family that loved to laugh.
Image: a self-portait Lynn drew. Here, she's about six years old.
My brother became a professional musician (trumpet) and I went to the Vancouver School of Art, hoping, somehow, to man a career as an artist.
My main interest was animation, and after two years of Art College, I took a job in an animation studio in Vancouver where I worked in the ink and paint department and began to apprentice as an animator.
Image: some lärling art from Lynn's time at Vancouver School of Art.
I married a television cameraman and in moved to Ontario with my husband where work in the media was more available.
Unable to work in animation in the city of Hamilton, inom got a job as a medical artist at McMaster University. It was a wonderful fem y
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Lynn Beverley Johnston
Award-winning cartoonist Lynn Johnston (born ) took over where Family Circus and Blondie left off with her comic strip, For Better or for Worse, which presents a modern-day view of family life. The strip has apparently struck a chord, as it appears in 87 of the largest papers in the United States and is consistently voted one of the top five comics by readers.
Lynn Beverley Johnston was born May 28, , in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, to Mervyn and Ursula Ridgway. Her father was a jeweler and watchmaker who loved comics and cartoons and instilled in his daughter an enthusiasm for those same things. He also taught her to analyze the value of timing and setting in comedy and cartoons. Johnston's mother was an illustrator and calligrapher whose talents inspired the young Lynn. Johnston's love of drawing and cartooning was a natural outgrowth of her parents' influence, and she developed her skills as a child, using art as an outlet for her emotions.
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Lynn Johnston
Canadian cartoonist
For other people named Lynn Johnston, see Lynn Johnston (disambiguation).
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Johnston at her induction into The Giants of the North: the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame in August | |
| Born | Lynn Ridgway () May 28, (age&#;77) Collingwood, Ontario, Canada |
Notable works | For Better or For Worse |
Lynn JohnstonCM OM (born May 28, ) is a Canadian cartoonist and author, best known for her newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.
Early life
[edit]Born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, she was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she was a close childhood friend of comedians Paul K. Willis and Michael Boncoeur. She attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) with hopes of making a living as an artist. After working briefly in animation, most not