Close to Home 2003 Block Calendar

First, it's a balding waitress with wings, serving angel hair pasta. Next, a surgical team that passes out at the sight of blood. Then, a chiropractor's receptionist who greets patients with "Welcome to the Crack House." Where does John McPherson find these people? He seems to bump into them very close to home. Absurdity is everywhere, and John McPherson, with his razor-sharp wit, simply points it out to us, albeit with a distinctly bizarre twist. His outrageous "Clost to Home" panel is syndicated in nearly 600 newspapers. He has eleven Close to Home books published to date. His characters can be found on a successful line of greeting cards. The Close to Home 2003 Calendar keeps the oddballs coming for an eighth amusing year. That McPherson has parlayed this craziness into a huge success story is proof that everyone loves goofy-looking cartoon characters doing strange things in completely ordinary settings.