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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Book List in Order: 11 titles




  • 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 H...



  • 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 pag...



  • 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. ...



  • Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life. To say that his solutions to these perplexing situations is "out there" is an understatement. Consider Gina, who decides a branding iron will be the id...



  • 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 go...



  • 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. ...



  • 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 ...



  • Zany started out like any child, but then became withdrawn into his tablet. Zany could not determine reality from his reality. Zany used his tablet as his reality distortion to figure out what people were monsters (Friendly) or not. One day Zany had ...






  • Happy Birthday to John McPherson's quick-witted and zany characters whose unconventional and twisted humor make Close to Home one of the funniest cartoons in the comics world!Close to Home’Classics presents the best cartoons from the strips...



  • Close to Home Classics 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 th...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John McPherson has published 11 books.

John McPherson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Close to Home 30th Anniversary Treasury, was published in September 2024.

The first book by John McPherson, Adventures of Buck Felner, the, was published in June 1995.

No. John McPherson does not write books in series.