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  • Great Sex After 50!

    And Other Outlandish Lies about Getting Older

    A collection of single panel comics poking fun at the aging process, from a syndicated American cartoonist."Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." —John McPhersonBe it the ritual hazing of new residents at Spring Meadow Retirement Center that requires retirees to drink twenty-five shots of prune juice, or the oxymoronic humor involved in the publication of ... Read more

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  • Close to Home: Exposed

    Series series Close to Home
    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 ... Read more

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  • Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots

    Inside Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots, Close to Home cartoonist John McPherson illustrates what happens when planets--and planetary beings--just don't seem to align. From memorable Thanksgiving TV-carving dinners to disjointed marriage counseling sessions, McPherson culls more than 75 relationship-specific, full-color panels inside this interplanetary ode to coupledom.McPherson's mastery in ... Read more

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  • The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats

    Series series Close to Home
    No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs. And then there are the cartoons that leave readers shaking their heads, sputtering, "Oh my gosh" as a guilty smile passes across their faces. The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats delivers what fans expect from McPherson: jokes about everything from ... Read more

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  • Close to Home: Uncut

    Series series Close to Home
    Only in the world of Close to Home can you find hospitals staffed with hypochondriac-sniffing dogs, Yellowstone employees who secretly spike Old Faithful with gallons of Mr. Bubble, and telephones equipped with Caller I.Q. Of course, for the creator of the screamingly successful Close to Home, it's just another no-holds-barred day at the drawing board.Specializing in humor in everyday situations, ... Read more

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  • Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer

    Series series Close to Home
    Where there is stress, there is humor." --John McPherson* Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer: A Close to Home Collection is a Close to Home collection. Creator John McPherson's sardonic wit creates an innocent hullabaloo with the Center for Nursing Advocacy and earns the ... Read more

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  • A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home

    Series series Close to Home
    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, ... Read more

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  • When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People

    Series series Close to Home
    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 ... Read more

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  • Close to Home: McPherson on Sports

    A Medley of Outrageous Sports Cartoons

    Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target. What's funnier than a flummoxed fisherman, a goaded golfer, a bamboozled batter, or a fumbling football player? Find out in this collection of John's favorites.Close to Home debuted in 50 newspapers in 1992 after McPherson left his engineering ... Read more

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  • Medicine Is the Best Laughter

    Series series Close to Home
    Cartoonist John McPherson's comics may be close to home, but thank your lucky stars that his erratic characters haven't made themselves too comfortable in your home. McPherson's ode to everyday life is punctuated with the off-the-wall personalities who can turn any normal occurrence into something ridiculous. The only way to read these cartoons and their comical characters—from inept surgeons to ... Read more

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  • The Close to Home 30th Anniversary Treasury

    Series series Close to Home
    ***The Close to Home Treasury***presents the best cartoons from the strip's repertoire, representing the major themes that have played out in its history: school, medical, office, kids, marriage, and sports. John McPherson has selected the best of the best in each category and provides commentary on the strips. The book includes a section with a brief tutorial on how McPherson creates Close to ... Read more

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  • Ferociously Close to Home

    Series series Close to Home
    Domestic hijinks ensue in the classic comic strip that appeared in over 600 papers worldwide, including The Washington Post , Miami Herald , and others.Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life. To say that his solutions to these perplexing situations are "out there" is an understatement. Consider Gina, who decides... ... Read more

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