FoxTrot:: The Works [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836218485
• ASIN: B002PJ4K96
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,494,767 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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Establishing the FoxTrot Characters, April 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: FoxTrot the Works (Paperback)

I personally enjoy most of the FoxTrot comic strips, which follow a family of five through their everyday lives. The father, Roger, is a mid-level office worker with a bland career. His wife Andy has developed a successful career as a columnist. Their children consist of Peter, a wannabe athelete; Paige, a fashion and social conscious teenager; and Jason, a nerdy elementary schoolkid.

This book really begins to establish the characters and the storytelling, which is why I only give it four stars instead of five. The first half of the book starts out with some simple jokes, gags, and storylines that the average reader would enjoy but the longtime FoxTrot fan might find a little tame. Towards the end of the book, however, the characterization is very solid, the jokes are more original, and the storylines are very good. Some of the storylines deal with quite serious scenarios (such as Jason falling off the roof of his house) with a skillful mixture of humor and seriousness that make FoxTrot the excellent comic strip that it is.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love it!, October 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: FoxTrot the Works (Paperback)

This is not just any FoxTrot treasury, it's also the first! If you're starting FoxTrot library, get this book first. The first treasury book also contains the FIRST FoxTrot strip! We also see how Peter met his girlfriend Denise, how Andy got her column published, what's Andy's column is about, and we also see that Peter loved Linda before he met Denise, and also see that Jason had a different teacher before his current teacher Ms. O'Mally appeared, and how Jason created "Slug-Man"! etc. I highly recommend it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An very amusing portrayal of a typical American family!, July 5, 2000

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R. Garcia "Beeyotch" (Brockport, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FoxTrot the Works (Paperback)

Drawn in a very simple style with both eyes on one side of the face and big, mitt-like ears, the Fox family is introduced to the American funnies with a very saucy sense of humor and all those playful little details that you may have missed the first time you looked. There's Roger Fox, the mild-mannered head of the household with his obsession to win at everything with golf and chess, his self-righteous wife, Andrea Fox (call her Andy) who scolds and nags just like any other soccer moms and prides in her original eggplant-and-tofu receipes (no wonder the kids are all so skinny it really hurts!), Peter Fox the lovable (believe it or not) teenager son under his trademark baseball cap who's crazy about sports and his sweetheart, the blind Deanna; Paige Fox the short-tempered, abusive blonde sister who's got a thing for shopping malls, chocolate, and boys, and last of all, Jason Fox, the inventive know-it-all behind his eye-free glasses who really loves school, science fiction, and computers. Oh, and don't forget the pet of the house, Quincy the Iguana who doesn't really say much. Just sit back and watch as Roger Fox gets creamed at the basketball games with his son, Andy Fox gets floored by Jason's practical jokes, Paige Fox gets ambushed by Quincy's claws, Jason Fox gets clobbered for the umpteenth time by his angry sister, and Peter Fox gets wiped out on the football field! Pretty crazy family adventures on the typical American surburbs!