Who's Up for Some Bonding? A FoxTrot Collection [Paperback]

Bill Amend (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foxtrot Collections | Publication Date: August 1, 2003

Bill Amend does it better than anybody else. His ability to present middle-class family life in a way that?s consistently fresh, irreverent, and downright wacky is unsurpassed. If asked?and they are each day they open the more than 1,000 newspapers that carry his strip?Amend?s audience of 25 million readers would say the same thing.That committed and connected audience will be delighted once again to discover Who?s Up for Some Bonding?, the latest in a series that includes 18 previous collections and eight treasuries, amounting to nearly two million FoxTrot books in circulation. This time around, Amend?s antics with the Fox family include the artist?s invitingly skewed views of ?normal? life: children who are light-years ahead of their parents when it comes to computers, siblings who could teach the CIA a thing or two about covert and ?get-even? ops, and parents who stumble around in a slight daze as they deal with all the ?amenities? of the modern world.Jason, Peter, Paige, and their parents, Roger and Andy, deliver the laughs. They all bring their unique personalities and perspectives to the FoxTrot world, whether the subject is technology, tofu recipes . . . or a son convinced he could be the next zillionaire Martha Stewart. FoxTrot surprises. FoxTrot charms. FoxTrot always satisfies.

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About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740738062
• ISBN-13: 978-0740738067
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,758 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

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

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

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Dave (Lexington, Kentucky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who's Up for Some Bonding? A FoxTrot Collection (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. This book is shorter than most of the others, the anthologies as they are called, but still chock full of loads of laughs. The book is 128 pages long, and is probably one of the more recent published form of the Foxtrot cartoon strip by Bill Amend.

Included is the sage of Jason's Spider-Man movie anticipation, or "When web shooters go bad", as well as the Star Wars II wait. You'll also laugh as Jason prepares to take over Martha Stewart's million dollar empire, and goes camping with the rest of the family.

Bottom line, I get genuinely concerned when/if I don't understand the humor in a Foxtrot comic, or if I fail to smile or laugh, and I'm quite positive you'll enjoy this book at least as much as I did. 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 discover reused jokes!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More excellent work by Amend, April 21, 2004

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C. Fason (Chattanooga, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who's Up for Some Bonding? A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

Amend never ceases to amaze me. Each strip is as good or better than the previous. I highly recommend this book, as Amend is once again in great form.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Amend does it again!, October 5, 2003

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Brian J Corvello (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who's Up for Some Bonding? A FoxTrot Collection (Paperback)

Bill Amend cranks out another collection of comic strips featuring the family that put the "fun" in disfunctional. There is hardly a bad strip or a storyline in the whole run of this series, that pokes fun at popular culture, media, and the finer points of life.

Some of the high points of the book:

Peter dog-sits for Fauntleroy - again - and the tiny terror drives him nuts - again.

Jason prepares for the "Spider-Man" movie, but his homemade web-shooter keeps backfiring.

Jason shines as usual on Halloween week.

Peter reads "The Odyssey" for class and has a nightmare of epic proportions.

Any strip dealing with the iFruit (the family's obnoxious computer).

Don't miss this hilarious collection - it'll go fast.