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We | hope it will help you and your family to stretch those allâ€"important food | By TERESA PITMAN buying dollars. Here are this week‘s best buys: | Special to the Beaver AP For Better or For Worse cartoonist 1 in town for booksigning Wednesday Those cartoons became a book, and ""I wanted another baby myself, but couldn‘t have one," Johnston explains. ""So I did the next best thing â€" I had a baby in the comic strip." Johnston feels she has more flexibiliâ€" ty with April because she isn‘t based on that became three books, and then the strip evolved out of that," Johnston explains. The adventures of the Patterson famâ€" ily are loosely based on Johnston‘s own family life, but while the Johnstons have a son and a daughter, the Pattersons had a new addition â€" baby April â€" in 1991. Lynn Johnston Combating that isolation is one reaâ€" son Johnston looks forward to the proâ€" motional tours, such as the one planned for next week. She values the experiâ€" ence of meeting her readers and hearing the reactions to her work. "It‘s like invitâ€" ing other people into your fantasy," she says. ‘TI‘ve created this family, these stoâ€" ries, and it‘s amazing to me how many people say it‘s just like their family, or that the same thing happened to them." "Some people said issues like child abuse don‘t belong in a comic strip, that it wasn‘t funny," Johnston says. "But I‘ve never been out just for laughs â€" this is about real life, the hard times as well as the fun." Writing the strip each week is someâ€" times a challenge, especially as the charâ€" acters grow older. "It might have been easier if I‘d kept them at the same age," Johnston suggests. "Now we have less of the cute little kids stuff. But I‘ve changed, too, as my children have grown, so I think it‘s good that the charâ€" acters are growing with me." Another challenge â€" one faced by most cartoonists and writers â€" is the isoâ€" lation that Johnston works in. "Right now I‘m working on the December strips, and I won‘t get a reaction to them for months. I really need that input from others because, sometimes, I think something is funny but no one else does â€" you just have to be mature enough to throw it away and start over." There was also some controversy when Gordon (another friend of Michael‘s in the strip) told his friends that his dad had beaten him. She‘s also tried to make a point about Lawrence‘s continuing role in the strip. "Lawrence has continued to be part of many stories â€" he helped Gordon move, for example, he‘s been part of the high school graduation. The most important part about Lawrence isn‘t that he‘s gay, it‘s that he‘s a good person and Michael‘s friend." For a comic strip noted for its warmth and affectionate humor, For Better or For Worse has also been the topic of controversy. The Patterson‘s son Michael‘s friend announced to Michael that he was gay, and readers all across North America reacted. Johnston says there was some negative reaction priâ€" marily in the United States, but that she received over 3,000 letters about the topic and most were positive. a specific person â€" ""She can be as outraâ€" geous as I want. She‘s maybe based a little more on me â€" I was a little devil growing up."