<p>Is your face suffering from a lack of exercise? Readers rely on John McPherson&#39;s <em>Close to Home</em> cartoon to contort their facial muscles into an unstoppable grin each day. Not even Botox can stop you from smiling at this latest collection of <em>Close to Home</em>.</p>

<p>How do you measure a cartoon&#39;s popularity? The true measure of a comic panel&#39;s popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, <em>Close to Home</em> wins the comic panel popularity contest hands down.</p>

<p><em>Close to Home</em> captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyards--there&#39;s a <em>Close to Home</em> panel that hits us where we live and work and play.</p>

<p><em>A Million Little Pieces</em> of <em>Close to Home</em> features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that&#39;s just the kind of thing you&#39;d expect from a <em>Close to Home</em> world.</p>