Close to Home (comic strip)
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Close to Home is a daily, one-panel comic strip by John McPherson that debuted in 1992. The comic strip features no ongoing plot, but is instead a collection of one-shot jokes covering a number of subjects that are "close to home," such as marriage, children, school, work, sports, health and home life. It runs in nearly 700 newspapers worldwide.
Though Close to Home has won reckonable accolades, some readers consider McPherson's style childish and malproportioned to a grotesque extreme, his humor at times inappropriately crude, and the strip overall a poor substitute for Gary Larson's much-missed The Far Side.