A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home: A Close to Home Collection

by John McPherson

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 popularity contest hands down. Close to Home captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyards--there's a Close to Home panel that hits us where we live and work and play. A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a Close to Home world.

Genres: Comics, Humor

146 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

John McPherson is an American cartoonist best known for Close to Home. In the 1990s John decided to leave his engineering job and focus on free-lance cartoons. Close to Home debuted in 1992 and went on to appear in over 600 papers worldwide, including The Washington Post, New York Daily News, Miami Herald and The Tokyo Times.

Reviews

[Andrew Brooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Missing content?

this is a collection of 1 page comics from the "funnies". Most are only one panel. There are a number of funny Ones, a number that are rather dated &/or incomprehensible (some humor doesn't date well) , and a number of these seem to be missing the text panel that would make the joke. I guess McPherson only retained rights to what was actually in an image panel...

[Ryk Stanton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as I expected it to be, surprisingly. Not sure why.

[Gloria Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing but a laugh 2 keep U happy

Brought all kinds of internal laughs having felt this happy in a long time.
Away from the foul language to get you to laugh