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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.

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.

Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor.

Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target.

Phoebe Von Bergen is excited to accompany her father when he travels from Germany to purchase sapphires in Montana.

Cassidy Ivanoff and her father, John, work at the new and prestigious Curry Hotel outside Mt. McKinley.

Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska.

Deborah Vandermark is pursuing her interest in medicine beside her beau Dr. Christopher Clayton.

Katherine and Jean-Michel once shared a deep love that was torn apart by forces beyond their control.