Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse comic strip will get a definitive collection from IDW Publishing and the Library of American Comics.

For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library will collect the entire series, spanning three decades of strips in three hardcovers per decade. The collection is edited by Dean Mullaney, Kurtis Findlay, and Lorraine Turner in cooperation with Johnston, who drew the adventures of the Patterson family between 1979 and 2008.

The first volume collects strips from the September 1979 debut through the end of 1982. The cover panel will be a new drawing by Lynn Johnston, and the book will include occational context notes and comments from the creator. The 544-page landscape hardcover will be in stores in October. MSRP is $39.99.