For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse
The Patterson family, the centre focus of For Better or For Worse
Author(s)	Lynn Johnston
Website	www.fborfw.com
Current status/schedule	Concluded; reruns
Launch date	September 9, 1979
End date	August 31, 2008 (original) July 11, 2010 (new "reruns")
Syndicate(s)	Universal Press Syndicate (1979–1997,[1] 2004–present) United Feature Syndicate (1997–2004)
Publisher(s)	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s)	Humour Family Drama Slice of Life

For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran originally from 1979 to 2008 chronicling the lives of the Patterson family and their friends, in the town of Milborough, a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario. Now running as reruns, For Better or For Worse is still seen in over 2,000 newspapers^[2] throughout Canada, the U.S., Mexico and around twenty other countries.