It was very sad for me to see this particular comic strip come to an end in its current form yesterday. I've been following it for about 25 years now. It follows the story of the Patterson family - husband John, wife Elly, and their three children, Mike, Elizabeth, and April. The thing I liked about the strip was that, unlike other family strips such as "Family Circus" (which I also love), the strip ran in "real time," meaning the family aged as time went by. You got to see the kids actually grow up, moving through grade school, high school, and college, and we got to see Mike get married and have two children of his own.
I know a lot of readers thought the strip had gone on for too long, and had declined in quality over the past few years, but I personally enjoyed reading it right up to the end. I also loved the quality of the artwork - the children grew so subtly that you couldn't really notice the changes in how they were being drawn until you would go back and look at a strip from six months or a year ago, and see that they, like real children, looked different, and you hadn't noticed the changes! THAT is talented artwork! I wish I had the talent to draw like that!
So thank you for all the years of enjoyment, Lynn Johnston, and I will continue to read the strip in its new form as you go "back in time" and begin telling the story of the Pattersons over again.
Geri Ann
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