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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.

Faithful Cathy readers count on their cartoon heroine to tell it like it is, whether the subject's relationships, parental responsibilities or shopping.

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.

Who could have imagined that at a time of deep global uncertainty and institutional failure, a soft-spoken figure dressed in white would step onto the world stage with a message of hope?

"I guess if anything I've ever written could cause them to one day remove the fluorescent lights from the swimwear department, then I've lived a full life." —Cathy Guisewite in

Inherit the Mirth is where faith meets funny. Showcased among its off-the-wall panels are well-known Bible personalities like Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, David and Goliath, Jesus and the disciples.

In Dan Reynolds's world, nerds play birthday party games like Pin the Tail on the Jackass, and women at the Maximum Insecurity Prison wonder if uniform stripes make them look fat.

The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America.

In Dating Disasters 101, this eBook original gathers strips from the popular cartoon strip Luann.

Leave it to Cathy to get us in touch with those life-affirming interactions and activities that we all need to reach our perfect selfdom.

From the depressing visits to the doctor’s office to the darkly comedic truths of approaching retirement, Wiley Miller’s eBook original The Non Sequitur Guide to Aging compiles strips that touch on

Cul de Sac chronicles the absurdly wonderful adventures of the Otterloop family. Alice, Petey, Mom and Dad live in the cookie-cutter suburbs not far from the interstate.

Bad hair days, caffeine addiction and the perils of cubicle-land are all a daily part of life in this e-only collection of cartoons from the comic strip Real Life Adventures by Lance Aldrich and Ga

This strip offers a fresh outlook and appeals to everyone. . .

One of the last places you'd expect to find fun is in an elementary-school janitor's cleaning closet.