Close To Home Author:Mcpherson It's the tenth Close to Home Calendar and the cartoons are funnier and sillier than ever. Creator John McPherson must dip from a fount of wacky water every day. And speaking of dips, how about that frat boy who parlayed his talent for scrunching cans against his head into a career at a recycling plant or the jailbird who reads feng shui books or... more » the guy who used a trampoline to paint his two-story house because his ladder broke. These crazy characters can be seen daily in more than 700 newspapers around the world. They can be found in nearly twenty books - including a couple of new ones: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Cartoons for Mom and Ferociously Close to Home. They are featured in one of the top-selling comic greeting card lines in the nation. They are in the Close to Home 2005 Calendar. To John McPherson we say, "Keep drinkin' the water."« less