FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foxtrot Treasury | Publication Date: March 1, 1997

"The Fox household is a nonstop, always funny, battleground; humor that hits home for anyone who's ever been part of a family." --Bookwatch

There is no doubt that the Fox family is one of the favorites of the cartoon strip world.

Through the five Foxes in FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt, cartoonist Bill Amend creates a comic peek into what family life is really like: trying. Between son Jason's elaborate schemes, daughter Paige's attempts at cooking, and son Peter's indoor football games, life is rarely dull for parents Andy and Roger Fox.

In this treasury, which is comprised of bestsellers At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts and The Return of the Lone Iguana, the Foxes find themselves again surviving an amusing round of adventure, from their summer vacation at Fun-Fun Universe, to Paige's adventures in baby-sitting, to Jason's inaugural ice-cream date. At the same time, the Foxes also face a variety of real-life situations, from thermostat wars to forced vegetarianism to Roger’s challenges with a workplace efficiency expert. All in all, this spirited family of five gives fans by the millions a daily dose of reality with a side-splitting helping of humor.

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About the Author

Bill Amend currently lives with his wife and two children in the Midwest.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836226941
• ISBN-13: 978-0836226942
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,382 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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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best comic strip left in today's newspapers, April 14, 2003

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Blake Petit "Novelist, columnist & reviewer" (Ama, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt (Paperback)

With "Peanuts," "Calvin and Hobbes" and now even "Liberty Meadows" gone from the pages of America's newspapers (at least in new form), it's time for me to select a new favorite daily comic strip. Fortunately, Bill Amend's "FoxTrot" has long been in my top-five list -- it's just being moved to the head of the line.

"FoxTrot" is one of the few strips left that can be funny without being syrupy, hasn't been rehashing the same old jokes for decades and doesn't politicize to such an extent that you wish it would be moved to the editorial page. In five main characters, Amend has an almost infinite number of story possibilities -- the health nut mom, the doofus dad, sports-crazed Peter, boy-crazed Paige and the frightening boy genius Jason.

Jason is easily my favorite character, and I suspect Amend created him as an outlet for his own inner geek. Strips like Jason's preparations for the new "Star Trek" movie or the one where he demands a refund for a comic book due to a piddling continuity error are the sort of things that only a real Trekker or comic reader could draw with such affection.

I've got all but two of the FoxTrot anthologies and I plan to own them all in short order -- but this is my favorite because the strips in here chronicle the period where my local newspaper started to carry it. These are the strips that first introduced me to the Fox family. I still look for them every morning.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely the best Foxtrot book yet., July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt (Paperback)

Well, Bill Amend has done it again. The wild humor of a 10-year-old torturing his siblings and his parents out of their minds with his computer and his iguana, Quincy. I especially like the way that Jason makes fun of his sister using his own web page, that links you to the Columbus Zoo's Chimp facility after telling you that her picture is next. Of course, Jason's Christmas list every year is always a good laugh as well.

In conclusion, Bill Amend is a total genius and I hope that he continues to draw Foxtrot for many years to come.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of laughs for anyone, February 3, 2003

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Dave (Lexington, Kentucky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt (Paperback)

Bill Amend's Foxtrot has to be the funniest comic strip since Calvin and Hobbes retired. I can count on one hand the Foxtrot comic strips that have failed to make me laugh...every one of them is funny. If you have a funny bone, you should tickle it by buying this book...and checking into other Foxtrot books.

For the parents: Being a teen myself, I thought I'd stick a note in case there are any parents out there, getting this for kids. Amend is somewhat disappointing on occasion. Example, in one comic, Peter Fox has a dream of making out with two Sports Illustrated models, who are in (cartoon, of course) skimpy suits. The two suggest they take the suits off, but Peter is awakened in the next panel. Kind of an appeal to the carnal side, but I try to ignore it. Most of the rest of the strips are just fine.