Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foxtrot Collections | Publication Date: April 11, 2003

Whether they're starting high school for the first time, devising their own Winter Olympics, or working out ways to foil their parents, the three Fox kids never fail to create pandemonium. Since FoxTrot hit syndication in 1988, the strip has rewarded its millions of faithful readers with daily doses of family fun.Now established as one of America's most popular comic strips, FoxTrot cleverly conveys the identifiably goofy goings-on in this crazy household. At the core of much of the strip's wild humor is whiz kid Jason, age 10, who tortures his parents, Roger and Andy, and two teenage siblings, Peter and Paige, with his computer skills and his pet Iguana, Quincy. One strip in FoxTrot's newest collection, Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables, illustrates the family dynamics especially well: When Peter makes a racy call to girlfriend Denise on his cell phone, he's shocked to find out he's actually dialed his mother. As he enters the living room, Jason not-so-innocently says, "Oh, dear. Did someone reprogram your speed-dial list again?"Day after day, FoxTrot continues to deliver fresh, irreverent, and wacky humor. You're Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables continues the tradition with its look at family life through the eyes of Bill Amend.

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About the Author

Cartoonist Bill Amend was born in New England, but moved to the San Francisco Bay area when he was 12. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in physics. While in school, he contributed to the student newspaper with twice-weekly editorial cartoons. He enjoys tinkering with computers and playing video games in his spare time. Bill lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 11, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740732994
• ISBN-13: 978-0740732997
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,712 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.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, May 4, 2003

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Willow (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

I love the Foxtrot books, and this one is just as good as the rest!

Highlights of the book are:
-"When Harry met Gandalf" (Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings)
-"Paige Goes Rudolph" (Paige's acne problems)
-All the comic strips with Paige and Peter in school
-The segments with Jason and Peter in the pizza place

This book is great, but if you have the 2003 tear-away calendar, there are about five of the same comics in here (that are also on the calendar).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How does he do it?, May 19, 2003

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Paul in Ohio (Hilliard, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

Yet another hilarious work by Bill Amend. I started reading his strip when Calvin & Hobbes was in its final year, and have been hooked ever since. His strips are original and timeless, and bear multiple re-readings. Whenever I need to unwind from a long day, I pick up one of his collections and lose myself in the world of Foxtrot. Definitely better (and cheaper!) than Scotch, and the jokes likewise get better with age....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER GREAT FOXTROT COLLECTION, January 7, 2005

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

It seems i am not alone in the opinion that when Bill Watterson ended his run on Calvin & Hobbes that Foxtrot became the defacto new favorite of many comic strip fans and with good reason. Bill Amend has the two qualities that make a great cartoonist: First, a comical yet adept cartooning style and second: a very witty sense of humor. The Fox Family consists of Mom Andy, Dad Roger, sons Peter and Jason, and Daughter Paige. This cast tackles the situations that all families do in funny and often eccentric ways led by the brainy and altogether greedy youngest son Jason.

Foxtrot consistently has some of the best Thanksgiving and Christmas strips every year and I always look forward to those. This is a strip that should be turned into a TV show! It's far superior to the lame "Family Guy".