''Close to Home'' is a daily,
one-panel comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...
by American cartoonist
John McPherson
John Abel McPherson (28 January 1860 – 13 December 1897) was the first leader of the South Australian United Labor Party from 1892 to 1897. Though he never led a government himself, he helped lay the groundwork which ensured that at the 19 ...
that debuted in 1992. 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.
Controversy
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 and others to apologize to readers.
References
External links
GoComics: Close to Home*
1992 comics debuts
American comic strips
Slice of life comics
Gag-a-day comics
Gag cartoon comics
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