Download or read book Close to Home Uncut written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, John McPherson lampoons the worlds of parenting, marriage, school, health care, work, and leisure in ways that get readers to laugh at themselves.
Download or read book Close to Home Exposed written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 provides humor that's comfortable and familiar; yet the strip also has a palpable element of danger or nonsense. Topics vary widely, from health care and parenting to car repairs and shopping. But whether it's addressing dating or death--or just as likely, dating and death--Close to Home always delivers the off-center laughs its readers have come to expect. "Close to Home is always a scream, and I love the goofy people that you draw. Truth is, I work with a lot of these folks." --Tom D. "Where do you come up with these comics'! They are totally stupendous and are a big part of my stupid and nauseating life. You're the best!" --Sleepless in New York "Every day you make me laugh!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" --An Online Fan
Download or read book Ferociously Close to Home written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ideal memory aid for her birthday date-challenged husband. And poor Lanny, whose treadmill session is interrupted when he inadvertently triggers the health club's offensive odor alarm. McPherson has long walked the line between grotesque and goofy. But somehow, his figures with big noses and bulging eyes connect with readers with a surefire magnetic precision. Whether it's health care or parenting, dating or car repairs, Close to Home delivers McPherson's warped world without fail.
Download or read book A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Close to Home 30th Anniversary Treasury written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the best in each category and he provides commentary on the strips. The book includes a section with a brief tutorial on how he creates the cartoon. This compendium of McPherson's funniest comics includes over 800 comics hand-selected by the author and his editors.
Download or read book Close To Home Uncut written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, John McPherson lampoons the worlds of parenting, marriage, school, health care, work, and leisure in ways that get readers to laugh at themselves.
Download or read book Women Are from Venus Men Are Idiots written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Close to Home is elevating the mundane to the magnificent. The caustic interactions between balding, bespeckled middle-aged men and auburn-haired, beehive-tressed women become achingly funny when sketched by his pen. Appearing in more than 700 newspapers internationally, McPherson's Close to Home is one of the most popular card lines from Recycled Paper Greetings.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Golfers written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're new to the game of golf or a seasoned veteran, whether you prefer the first hole or the nineteenth, whether you're shooting for birdie or just to stay out of the woods, you'll recognize yourself and your golfing (mis)adventures in the hilarious collection of cartoons. With John McPherson's classic wit, these cartoons convey the humor, the thrill and the sport of the game. The perfect pick-me-up after a day spent slicing or the way to celebrate a bogey, this is the laugh-out-loud book for golfers (and the people who miss seeing them on the weekends).
Download or read book Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 accolades of Leavenworth Federal Detention Center's inmate #19108045. * McPherson's mastery is elevating the mundane to the magnificent. Scenes of societal sloth, coworker conundrums, dysfunctional discord, and medical malpractice become achingly funny when sketched by his pen.
Download or read book The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 parenting to dating to car repairs. McPherson takes his readers on a journey that's very Close to Home.
Download or read book When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 my window and are drawing my life!" Though by no means a Peeping Tom, John McPherson does have the unique skill of being able to take those idiosyncrasies of daily life that drive us all nuts and infuse them with razor-sharp wit. In When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People John features angry letters from readers, cartoons that were killed by the editor, a glimpse inside his creative process, and never-before-seen photos of his erasers, quill pens, and his lucky drawing slippers. Who could resist it?
Download or read book Great Sex After 50 written by John McPherson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 McPherson Be 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 the “1st Annual Swimsuit Edition of Aging Today,” this collection of John McPherson’s cartoons finds humor in life’s most everyday act—namely, aging. Octogenarians, centenarians—even those younger and in between—all agree, John McPherson is a comic master when it comes to creating humor out of getting older. Culling more than 100 aging-specific black-and-white and full-color panels from McPherson's Close to Home cartoon panel and featuring a zany cast of malpracticing medics, denture-less dentists, and cynical civil servants, this humorous compendium is the ultimate ode to being over the hill.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Dads written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the resounding success of Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Moms, the authors decided to take a humorous look at fatherhood, again from the perspective of internationally syndicated and award-winning cartoonist, John McPherson. So much of the joys-and frustrations-of fatherhood cannot be adequately expressed in words, and that's where this book fills the bill. A departure from the rest of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, this collection is 100 percent cartoons and guaranteed to make every dad grin, chuckle and laugh out loud. This mirth-filled gem will depict the years from expecting the first to the empty nest in a tribute to fatherhood that is filled with as much laughter as love. All fathers are sure to enjoy the 200-plus cartoons-each a John McPherson original-and will doubtless turn to this book again and again for a welcome smile or laugh.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Teachers written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 cartoons from syndicated cartoonist John McPherson show our appreciation for, and sometimes our impatience with, one of the most important bedrocks of our nation’s future: our teachers. From elementary school to college, and from piano teachers to sports coaches, this book makes a hilarious and heartwarming gift for our favorite mentors.
Download or read book Too Close to Home written by Linwood Barclay and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Linwood Barclay brings terror closer than ever before in a stunning thriller in which murder strikes in the place we should feel safest of all…. In a quiet neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. You can’t help thinking, It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next? Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where families are shot to death in their own homes. But how well did Jim and Ellen Cutter really know their neighbors—or the darker secrets of their small town? They don’t have to look further than their own marriage to know that things aren’t always what they seem. Now the Cutters and their son, Derek, must face the unthinkable: that a murderer isn’t just stalking too close to home…but is inside it already.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Cartoons for Moms written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because "a picture is worth a thousand words," Chicken Soup for the Soul offers this very special book that takes a humorous look at motherhood from the perspective of internationally syndicated and award-winning cartoonist John McPherson. So much of the joys and frustrations of motherhood cannot be adequately expressed in words, and that's where this book fills the bill. A departure from all other books in theChicken Soup for the Soul series, this collection is 100% cartoons and guaranteed to make every mom laugh out loud. This mirth-filled gem depicts everything from pregnancy to empty nest and all points in between, in a tribute to motherhood that is filled with as much laughter as love. Every mother will enjoy the 200 John McPherson original cartoons that fill these pages, and wherever she may be on the journey of motherhood, this book will strike a chord, elicit a smile and bring forth a laugh.
Download or read book Unwelcome Good News written by Andrew P. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains? It is not 'simply' that all of life is good, because its pains can clearly be overwhelming. But is it possible to find life good, including its hard and painful parts? How might one live that way? ---------------- This book is written so that rumors of God in his functional presence might not die out. It is written so that those who want to affirm life in full view of its pains and wrongs may do so with recognition and intention.
