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What Pickax, the town "400 miles north of everywhere," needs is a new bookstore.

"Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." —John McPherson More than one third of the world's population is officially over the hill, while the

If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered.

Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home.

Where there is stress, there is humor." —John McPherson Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.

Only in the world of Close to Home can you find hospitals staffed with hypochondriac-sniffing dogs, Yellowstone employees who secretly spike Old Faithful with gallons of Mr.

Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life.

No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs.

Inside Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots, Close to Home cartoonist John McPherson illustrates what happens when planets—and planetary beings—just don't seem to align.

Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor.

Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target.

Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene.

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes.