Cartoonist lynn johnston biography
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Lynn Johnston
Canadian cartoonist
For other people named Lynn Johnston, see Lynn Johnston (disambiguation).
| Lynn Franks Johnston | |
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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 notably as an uncredited cel colorist on The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show,[1] she married in and moved back to Ontario, where she worked as a medical artist at McMaster University for five years. Johnston's illustrations are in storage in McMaster's medical archive. They include depicti
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I was born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, and I 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 make 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 student 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, I got a job as a medical artist at McMaster University. It was a wonderful five years of learning. I gained a reverence for life and the human body that only one in a hospital environment can achieve.
Image: At McMaster, Lynn created many medical-themed illustrations, which professors used to help students remember important concepts.
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About the Artist
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