Close to Home is a daily, one-panelcomic strip by American cartoonist John McPherson that debuted in 1992.[1] 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. "Home" achieved its greatest peak in popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s, when several newspapers picked up the strip to replace the retired The Far Side. As of 2021, it runs in nearly 700 newspapers worldwide.[2]
A Close to Home strip published on February 21, 2020, depicting the Lone Ranger and Tonto in a bar, was deemed offensive and racist, leading some newspaper publishers to cancel the comic[3] and others to apologize to readers.[4]
Referencesedit
^Horn, Maurice (1999). The world encyclopedia of cartoons. Vol. 2. Chelsea House. p. 196. ISBN0-7910-5185-4.
^Szymanski, Cindy (July 15, 2002). "Two new strips debut with promise to amuse readers". Buffalo News. p. A10.
^Degg, D.D. (February 25, 2020). "'Close to Home' Cancelled in Canada". The Daily Cartoonist. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
^"Apology To Readers". Portland Press Herald. February 28, 2020. p. C7.
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