Close to Home 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar Close to Home appears in more than 700 newspapers internationally and is one of the most-read comic panels in the country. It is the eighteenth year for this calendar. If you're looking for humor, look no further than home-- Close to Home , that is. The hugely popular cartoon panel features the most peculiar-looking characters in the most amusing situations. Whether laughs are inspired by the woman who wins 5,000 free pills for being the pharmacy's 10,000th customer, the casket company that offers frequent-buyer discount cards, or the office employees who find it more efficient to drink coffee from a trough than from a coffeemaker, John McPherson delivers the zaniness right to your front door. Each page of the Close to Home 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar features a classic and colorful Close to Home cartoon.