Close to Home (comic strip)

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. It achieved its greatest peak in popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s, when several newspapers picked up the strip to replace the retired The Far Side. As of 2021, it runs in nearly 700 newspapers worldwide.^[2]

Close to Home
Author(s)	John McPherson
Website	www.gocomics.com/closetohome
Current status/schedule	Current daily gag panel
Launch date	December 1992; 32 years ago (December 1992)
Syndicate(s)	Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication
Publisher(s)	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s)	Humor

Controversy

A Close to Home strip published on February 21, 2020, depicting the Lone Ranger and Tonto in a bar, was deemed offensive and racist, leading some newspaper publishers to cancel the comic^[3] and others to apologize to readers.^[4]