| A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home: A Close to Home Collection Contributor(s): McPherson, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0740761986 ISBN-13: 9780740761980 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 Annotation: How do you measure a cartoon's popularity? Sure "Close to Home" is syndicated in nearly 700 daily and Sunday newspapers and is featured on a successful line of greeting cards, mugs, and calendars. A recent international licensing deal will bring "Close to Home" products to the UK, Ireland, and the European Union, too. But the true measure of a comic panel's popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, "Close to Home" wins the comic panel popularity contest hands down. "Close to Home" captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyardsthere's a "Close to Home" panel that hits us where we live and work and play. "A Million Little Pieces" of "Close to Home" features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a "Close to Home" world.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Humor | Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons |
| Dewey: 741.597 |
| LCCN: 2006925371 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.02" W x 7.96" (0.62 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is your face suffering from a lack of exercise? Readers rely on John McPherson's Close to Home cartoon to contort their facial muscles into an unstoppable grin each day. Not even Botox can stop you from smiling at this latest collection of Close to Home. How do you measure a cartoon's popularity? The true measure of a comic panel's popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, Close to Home wins the comic panel popularity contest hands down. Close to Home captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyards--there's a Close to Home panel that hits us where we live and work and play. A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a Close to Home world. |