At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A FoxTrot Collection [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foxtrot Collection | Publication Date: September 1, 1996

A collection of comic strips from the nationally syndicated cartoon follows the misadventures of the Fox family, drawn from real-life situations faced by modern kids, from baby-sitting jobs from hell to sibling rivalry on an epic scale. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836221206
• ISBN-13: 978-0836221206
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,082,862 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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best FoxTrot collections!, January 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

Of all of the previous FoxTrot collections by Bill Amend, I would have to say "At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts" is the shining star. This collection brings together some of the best and most well known strips starring the Fox's. Including The series of strips dealing with the trip to Fun-Fun Universe, the strips where Jason meets Eileen Jacobson, the series where Paige save Quincy from almost dying from choking on one of her shoelaces. Also the strips where Peter takes care of Fauntleroy, a neighbor's dog, and the strips where Peter gets his head shaved. So if you are a true FoxTrot fanatic then I reccommend you rush out and buy this book

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The evils of babysitting, unromantic husbands, and efficiency experts, July 9, 2005

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Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

"There's nothing like going into a big bookstore on a cold winter evening...finding a collection of short stories that you'd always meant to read...taking off your coat...plopping down in their café...and watching shoppers come and go as you sit back and sip on coffee. Ah, bliss."
"Mom, did you bring your credit card? They have every STAR TREK book." (Jason)
"Since calendars are half-price, can I get Niki *and* Stephanie?" (Peter)
"Fourth and one and they're *punting*?" (Roger, on headphones)
"At least this place sells T-shirts." (Paige)
"Ah, reality."
- Mrs. Fox and family, herein

All the cartoons in this collection are included - in the same order - in the omnibus FOXTROT BEYOND A DOUBT except for the single-page additions of Jason personalizing a T-shirt and the dedication page's picture of Quincy the iguana with a teddy bear. The Sunday double strips are not in colour in this book, although they are printed in colour in FOXTROT BEYOND A DOUBT.

Unless you're particularly attached to the smaller size of this book, its cute cover art, or the three single frame cartoons that were added for the dedication and endpages as described above, I recommend considering FOXTROT BEYOND A DOUBT instead, since it includes all the content of this book with the addition of colour formatting for the Sunday strips, together with content from the previous collection RETURN OF THE LONE IGUANA.

Having said that, let's move on to the content. :)

FOXTROT maintains a continuing storyline, although the kids seem to be growing up rather slowly despite the passing seasons. This particular book begins during the Fox family's summer holidays and ends the following spring.

Some of the memorable bits include:
- Paige babysits for Margaret O'Dell from her mother's book club for the first time, whose little girl is cute but whose babysitting conditions are dire. "Hi there! You must be little Katherine!" "Um, it's 'Katherine', with a 'K'." "That's what I said." "No, you said 'Catherine' with a 'C'. I could tell. Hold on - I'll be right back." "Hi, there! You must be the little girl who's going to need massive therapy in twelve years!" (Peter, much later, takes a dog-sitting job looking after a crazed little canine Nac Mac Feegle - pit bull aggression levels in a toy dog's body).
- Jason and Marcus experiment with model rockets and with the biggest kite they can manage to put together.
- The Fox family takes a family vacation to Fun-Fun Universe (not to be confused with Disney World, of course).
- Paige learns during a speech in social studies class not to listen to her dad's advice on how to control her nerves: "Yowza! It's like a Chippendales show!"
- Peter's first anniversary of dating Denise and his efforts to select a good present (genes from his mom's side, since his dad buys spatulas for Valentine's Day). He also goes through some rather trying study sessions with her while her parents aren't home.
- Jason's classmate Eileen beats his score on a math test; she suckers him into going out for ice cream with her family afterward, even though he officially doesn't like girls.
- Paige is assigned to write a ghost story in English class. After she makes Jason the victim, she gets an A plus an appointment with the school counselor.
- Paige's brother Peter passes himself off as her secret admirer as a joke.
- Jason asks for Doomathon II for Christmas, but trades it at the computer store after his mom becomes addicted to it. "Mom convinced me that I was too young to have a game like that in the house...I mean, *I* can't do my laundry."
- Roger suffers through an efficiency expert at work who complains at finding perfectly good paper clips in the trash and is then treated to lunch at the Ritz by the boss.
- The baseball team players, including Peter, shave their heads after losing a bet with the soccer team (which temporarily cheers Peter's balding father no end).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At least this place sells good comic books, June 24, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

Oh, my lord this is like the greatest Foxtrot ever written. The Strips are so cool and the stories are soooooooooooo funny espesialy when Roger smokes a cigar and Paige writes a ghost story. Truely, very fuuny