A collection of cartoons captures everyday life in the Patterson family, as John and Emily confront middle age, Elizabeth deals with college life and independence, Michael secretly marries Deanna, and April learns about bullies.

Struggling to adjust to their new lives, Mike and Deanna discover that an unexpected baby is on the way, while Grandpa Jim and Iris elope to England, and Elizabeth dumps her unfaithful boyfriend, in cartoons from the comic strip.

Follows a year in the lives of the comic strip characters, from Michael and Deanna's elopement and her mother's insistence upon an elaborate wedding, to Grandpa Jim's courtship of Iris, to Elizabeth's turbulent relationships with Eric and Anthony.

Millions of readers share a daily relationship with Johnston and her cartoon family, the Pattersons, in the strip "For Better or for Worse." That long association is honored through this one-of-a-kind collection featuring Johnston's musings and comments about her real life.

In her touchingly funny daily strip, Lynn Johnston gives her fans realistic characters who humorously deal with both the good and bad that life gives them. Every day, Johnston demonstrates--through hormonal children and parents who aren't always right--that life goes on For Better or For Worse. In Middle Age Spread, parents John and Elly have started to notice their own aging process: the increasing need for glasses, exercise, and computer skills....

Lynn Johnston's award-winning "For Better or For Worse" comic strip is the world's most popular strip in which characters evolve through age and experience, rather than remaining frozen in time. Fans appreciate that the daily doings of the Patterson family often closely resemble their own. Featuring more than 43 weeks of strips, with Sundays in color, this collection features Elizabeth's developing teaching skills working in a northern First Nation's...

Lucy B. Parker's life is turned upside down with the announcement of her mom's wedding, which is happening in only a month.