Everyone can relate to John McPherson’s humor in his popular Close to Home comic strip, where he turns mundane life experiences into something totally absurd. From the substitute teacher who likes to perform a karate demonstration before she introduces herself to a class, to the gentleman at the pharmacy counter who offers to buy a round of blood pressure medicine for the woman next to him, to the kid who makes braces for himself in metal shop, this calendar lets you experience all the wackiness this hilarious cartoon panel has to offer.Features include:5.25" x 5.25" page sizeEasel backer for desk or tabletop displayPrinted on FSC certified paper with soy-based inkFull-color tear-off pagesBack of pages are blank for notes or shopping listsDay/Date reference on each pageCombined weekend pagesOfficial major world holidays and observationsIncludes hilarious new comic on each daily page 

Junk Drawer 10/14/19.   Prints are available in 2 sizes. Images sizes vary in accordance with the size of the comic itself, but all are printed, centered, on acid-free, archival paper. 8.5 x 11-inch - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 3 x 9 inches 11 x 17-inch  - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 4 x 12 inches All framed comic art prints are custom, please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

Junk Drawer 10/07/19.   Prints are available in 2 sizes. Images sizes vary in accordance with the size of the comic itself, but all are printed, centered, on acid-free, archival paper. 8.5 x 11-inch - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 3 x 9 inches 11 x 17-inch  - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 4 x 12 inches All framed comic art prints are custom, please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

Junk Drawer 9/30/19.   Prints are available in 2 sizes. Images sizes vary in accordance with the size of the comic itself, but all are printed, centered, on acid-free, archival paper. 8.5 x 11-inch - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 3 x 9 inches 11 x 17-inch  - The standard 4-frame comic strip is enlarged to approximately 4 x 12 inches All framed comic art prints are custom, please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

F Minus makes the grade.

Creator Tony Carrillo brings us a profoundly funny strip that asks the following questions: Why are we here? What is life all about? Can I take only one shower per week if it's seven times the normal length?

This very funny, quirky comic strip was chosen by more than 200,000 college students as the winner of the mtvU Strips Contest.

F Minus is a strip short on life lessons, precious moments, and pearls of wisdom. It tackles life's serious issues, pins them to the ground, and steals their lunch money. Then it feels a little bit guilty and gives some of it back.

"I draw my material from my experiences at a wide array of failed careers," says Carrillo. "Over time, I have worked as a pizza cook, Web site designer, dancing costumed character, portrait artist, insurance drone, waiter, custom framer, camel ride attendant at the zoo, and the guy at the airport that waves orange wands at the airplanes. As varied as these jobs were, eventually I had the profound realization that they all had two important things in common: each offered a wealth of comedic inspiration and there was always a creepy guy named Larry."

Life isn't fair. But it sure is funny in F Minus.

* Carrillo began his drawing career while attending Arizona State University. F Minus appeared in the college newspaper, The State Press, for two years.

* In December 2004, the strip was named the winner of the 2004 mtvU Strips Contest, as chosen by judges Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and David Rees, creator of Get Your War On, as well as more than 200,000 online voters.

"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 rest of us are quickly approaching its summit. 

Be it the ritual hazing of new residents at Spring Meadow Retirement Center that requires retirees to drink 25 shots of prune juice, or the oxymoronic humor involved in the publication of the "1st Annual Swimsuit Edition of Aging Today," octogenarians, centenarians--even those younger and in between--all agree, John McPherson's comic mastery finds humor in life's most everyday act--namely, aging.

McPherson's Close to Home cartoon panel features a zany cast of malpracticing medics, denture-less dentists, and cynical civil servants. Culling more than 100 aging-specific black-and-white and full-color panels, McPherson creates the ultimate ode to getting older.

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.

Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer: A Close to Home Collection is a Close to Home collection. Creator John McPherson's sardonic wit creates an innocent hullabaloo with the Center for Nursing Advocacy and earns the accolades of Leavenworth Federal Detention Center's inmate #19108045.

* McPherson's mastery is elevating the mundane to the magnificent. Scenes of societal sloth, coworker conundrums, dysfunctional discord, and medical malpractice become achingly funny when sketched by his pen. 

F Minus dares to ponder thoughtful perplexities like, "Why are we here?" "What is life all about?" and "Can I take only one shower per week if it's seven times the normal length?"

* This thinking man's cartoon panel is less than a year old and already appears in more than 100 newspapers.

More About F Minus

Short on life lessons, precious moments, and pearls of wisdom, Tony Carrillo's F Minus takes on life's serious issues by pinning them to the ground and stealing their lunch money. (Then it feels a little bit guilty and gives some of the money back.)

* As Carrillo explains, "I draw my material from my experiences at a wide array of failed careers. Over time, I have worked as a pizza cook, Web site designer, dancing costumed character, portrait artist, insurance drone, waiter, custom framer, camel ride attendant at the zoo, and the guy at the airport that waves orange wands at the airplanes. As varied as these jobs were, eventually I had the profound realization that they all had two important things in common: Each offered a wealth of comedic inspiration and there was always a creepy guy named Larry."

Author's web site: www.fminus.net

These characters' eyes bug out--and whose wouldn't! In the world that's Close to Home, amazing things usually happen. Like the Zalcon Pest Control man who finds beaver dams in his client's bathtub. "That explains the missing legs to your coffee table," the expert says. Or the surprised couple who watches as a bus unloads in their front yard with a banner blazing "The Relatives of Ed & Sue Vosburg Totally Unannounced Tour."

In this Close to Home collection, Home: The Final Frontier, cartoonist John McPherson draws a side of life that's way out there, revealing his bizarre take on wild and wacky situations that just might happen in a parallel universe. His quirky style alone makes fans double over, but McPherson's sly observations keep them laughing long afterwards.

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. And then there are the cartoons that leave readers shaking their heads, sputtering, "Oh my gosh" as a guilty smile passes across their faces. The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats delivers what fans expect from McPherson: jokes about everything from parenting to dating to car repairs. McPherson takes his readers on a journey that's very Close to Home.