Camp Foxtrot (Foxtrot Treasury) [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foxtrot Treasury | Publication Date: September 1, 1998

What's better than a hilarious FoxTrot comic strip? A funfilled treasury stuffed with page after page of its characters' antics, including Sundays in full color. That's exactly what fans will find in Camp FoxTrot, the sixth treasury of its kind. The Fox family chemistry bubbles and bursts forth once again in this compilation of Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose and Welcome to Jasorassic Park.

By now, FoxTrot followers around the world have come to know this five-member family and its assorted friends through nearly 800 daily and Sunday newspapers, Amend's 17 previous books, and a hugely popular site on the World Wide Web. They easily recognize the Fox siblings: brainy younger-brother Jason, shopaholic big sister Paige, and the eldest, Peter, who's suffering through "almost-manhood". Readers can commiserate with Andy, the mother who writes a newspaper column but longs for screenwriting credits, and Roger, a long-suffering corporate tool who strives to stave off middle age as he takes games such as golf and chess to mystifying new levels.

In this side-splitting treasury, Jason and buddy Marcus go to a summer science camp for gifted kids and meet their prank-playing matches, Paige starts high school, Peter tries out for the football team, and Roger and Andy just try to keep some perspective on the wacky ways of their lives and offspring.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836267478
• ISBN-13: 978-0836267471
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Amend and his wife and two children call the Midwest home. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in physics. In 1998, FoxTrot was syndicated. When he's not drawing his strip and making people laugh, he can be found tinkering with computers and playing video games.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best, January 10, 2004

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Dave (Lexington, Kentucky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Camp Foxtrot (Foxtrot Treasury) (Paperback)

Foxtrot being one of the funniest syndicated comics available today (this might be arguable for some, depending on your standard for humor), you'll definitely want this comic book. It is chock full of 250 pages of the popular strip by Bill Amend, and, with very few exceptions, you'll laugh at every strip.

The actual "camp" doesn't happen until somewhere near the middle of the book, where brainy Jason and his friend Marcus go to Geek Camp for the summer, just to let you know, but you won't mind, I promise.

There is a delightful little bonus kindly provided by the author at the end ("My publisher tells me I have six blank pages to fill") which documents the path that Amend started down in order to become the success he is today. Amend takes six pages to discuss how he creates the strips (does he draw them, or think up the plotline first?) and how he submits and is hired out to do them regularly (so what exactly is the running salary for a cartoonist these days anyway?) with tips on how a person with talent can attempt to do the same.

I get genuinely concerned when/if I don't understand the humor in a Foxtrot comic, or if I fail to smile or laugh. That's how good this comic strip is. Yes, there are reused jokes...but to anyone who might complain about them, you have to remember that SOMETHING kept them reading long enough to notice reused jokes!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FOXTROT rulez!, January 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Camp Foxtrot (Foxtrot Treasury) (Paperback)

I love Foxtrot and once I read this one, which was my first, I really wanted to read more! They family that was created is such a perfect family for all these things to happen to! I love Foxtrot, and now I have seven books insted of one!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Amend at his best!, January 24, 1999

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C. Ryono "my heart is a series of tubes" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Camp Foxtrot (Foxtrot Treasury) (Paperback)

This may very well be the best large Fox Trot collection there is out there. Highlights include (but are certainly not limited to): Jason's trip to science camp, Jason's Star Wars satires, Peter and Paige's Halloween party, and more more more. Fanboys unite, we have a hero in Jason Fox!