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Genre (s) Humor. Close to Home is a daily, one-panel comic 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.
John McPherson (born August 19, 1959) is an American cartoonist best known for Close to Home. [1] In the 1990s John decided to leave his engineering job and focus on free-lance cartoons. [2] Close to Home debuted in 1992 [3] and went on to appear in over 600 papers worldwide, including The Washington Post, New York Daily News, Miami Herald and ...
Too Close for Comfort is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from November 11, 1980, to May 5, 1983, and in first-run syndication from April 7, 1984, to February 7, 1987. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled in 1986 for what would turn out to be its final season, due to Ted Knight 's death.
This news was followed by a week-long arc of the characters discussing a "cartoonist" semi-retiring to Sundays only, and what methods he would use to phase out the daily strips. The last daily strip was shown on December 30, 2006. [6] At the end of its run as a daily comic, FoxTrot was carried by more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide. [1]
Close to Home (1992– ) by John McPherson (US) Clout Street (1983–1984) by Dick Locher (US) Clovis and Tom-Tom (1960–1979) by R Eagle (Canada) Colonel Gilfeather (1930–1934) originally by Richard W. Dorgan (also known as Mister Gilfeather and The Gay Thirties) (US) Colonel Potterby and the Duchess (1935–1963) by Chic Young
List of newspaper comic strips. The following is a list of comic strips. Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.
Perky & Beanz (1985–1987) by Russell Myers (US) Perry Mason (1950–1952) by Mel Keefer and Charles Lofgren (US) The Pet Set (1977–1978) by Doug Borgstedt and Jean Borgstedt. Pete and Pinto (1919–1920) by Martin Branner (US) Peter Panic (1973– ) by Lo Linkert. Peter Piltdown (1935–1946) by Mel Eaton.
These are the results of an overall review of the syndicated comics that The Times publishes, which we promised to readers after printing a “9 Chickweed Lane” strip Dec. 1 that contained an ...