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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.

A small town in the American Southwest... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st century Earth?

Some people claim that it is possible to survive High School — that the numbing lectures, first period P.E.

Here’s looking at you, movie buffs.

Garfield brings his trademark humor to the world of hole-in-one shots, bogeys, wedges and irons in this new little book for golfers.

Welcome to Endtown, a community of animal-like mutants and “impure” humans infected with a mutagenic virus living below Earth’s post-apocalyptic surface.

"It's a sweetly funny strip, reminiscent of the relationship of Charlie Brown and Snoopy or Calvin and Hobbes. . . .

All work and no play made cartoonist Doug Savage a dull boy, until the day that he decided to draw two chickens on a yellow sticky note, followed by enough characters and absurdly amusing situation

Ten abandoned cats live in an old warehouse where they are looked after by a young girl named Annie. They include Chesney, the ringleader, Jack, his sidekick and Oliver  —a wide-eyed kitten.

When he launched Non Sequitur a decade ago, Wiley Miller knew he didn't want a running joke.

Charlie Podrebarac’s silly, animal-obsessed wit is on display in Cowtown Abbey, a showcase of the most absurdly uproarious Cowtown strips to date.

The eyelids go up when the coffee goes down! Make the bean scene with java junkie Garfield in this little book guaranteed to perk up your day!

Exercise, one of Garfield’s favorite spectator sports, gets worked over in this tribute to life in the fat lane. Of course, Garfield isn’t lazy… he’s just motivationally-challenged.

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

Cathy is like a longtime friend who shares the same fears and frustrations as most women: the frightening sight of too-tight swimsuits in a dressing room mirror, the relentless call of the refriger