The Silence of the Lamberts: A Close to Home Collection

by John McPherson

"While the phrase "something for everyone" is often misused, Close to Home does indeed have something to appeal to all ages." -- Daily News , Bowling Green, Kentucky

Have you ever had a cavity, and you're afraid to get it filled, so you just let it go, and let it go, until eventually your entire face is just one, huge cavity to the point that your friends don't even recognize you anymore? Neither have we.

But it could happen! In fact, it did happen, in a very, very, strange and amusing world known as Close to Home . A world where acupuncture is used to cure a golfer's slice, babies are strapped to running lawn mowers to ease colic, and supermarket shoppers bob for lobsters.

Since it burst onto the funny pages in 1992, Close to Home has garnered rave reviews from the creator's mother. Millions of other readers around the world agree. Silence of the Lamberts is a favorite with anyone who has a penchant for things bizarre, irreverent, and hilarious. At the very least, it will show you what can happen if you let that cavity go untended for too long.

Genres: Humor

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 1997

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

[HeavyReader · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book collects comics that look a hell of a lot like The Far Side comics. Most of these are one panel drawings, a thick black line making a frame around the rectangular illustration, words underneath. Some of these comics are even clever and weirdly humorous in that The Far Side kind of way. But the art is not nearly as nice as the art from The Far Side. John McPherson just can't seem to get faces right. His people all have the same hooked nose and the same bulging eyes (or glasses so he doesn't have to draw the same bulging eyes.)

Even though I found some of the content of this book amusing, I couldn't get over feeling this was a rip off of something I enjoy more.