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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 ...
Genre (s) Humor, drama. Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk. Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, it appeared in more than 400 newspapers worldwide. While Batiuk was a 23-year-old middle school art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, he began drawing cartoons while supervising study hall.
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]
For Better or For Worse. For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran originally from 1979 to 2008 chronicling the lives of the Patterson family and their friends, in the town of Milborough, a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario. Now running as reruns, For Better or For Worse is still seen in over 2,000 newspapers [2 ...
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.
The Lockhorns. The Lockhorns is a United States single-panel cartoon created September 9, 1968 by Bill Hoest and originally distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers in 23 countries. [ 1] The Lockhorns joined Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) January 1, 2024 and continues to appear in hundreds of newspapers worldwide and online ...
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 ...