Close to Home
English
145 pages
1: When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People
276 views • Feb 07, 2024
Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny, and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor. Whatever adjective you apply to Close to Home, it has become one of the most popular comic panels in the funny pages today. Close to Home has devout fans that range from elementary students to octogenarians. As one fan put it, "I feel like you have been looking in my window and are drawing my life!" Though by no means a Peeping Tom, John McPherson does have...
144 pages
2: Million Little Pieces of Close to Home
156 views • Feb 07, 2024
Is your face suffering from a lack of exercise? Readers rely on John McPherson's Close to Home cartoon to contort their facial muscles into an unstoppable grin each day. Not even Botox can stop you from smiling at this latest collection of Close to Home.How do you measure a cartoon's popularity? The true measure of a comic panel's popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, Close to Home wins the comic panel p...
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3: Close to Home: Exposed
171 views • Feb 07, 2024
Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness, and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home. The goofy people and brilliant humor of this single-panel strip have put smiles on the faces of readers. This kooky collection, Close to Home Exposed, captures the hilarity of some of its best cartoon panels. As the comic's name suggests, Close to Home provides humor that's comfortable and familiar; yet the strip also has a palpable element of dang...
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4: Medicine Is the Best Laughter
13 views • Jul 31, 2024
This cartoon collection is like an auditorium, packed with hundreds of comedians, cartoonists, and satirists, each letting you in on a private joke. Organized according to medical specialties, themes, and categories, these cartoons and anecdotes offer the chance to intersperse medical humor with scientific information.
