Enormously FoxTrot (Paperback)

by Bill Amend (Author) "I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO FUN-FUN MOUNTAIN!..." (more)

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Product Description
A new collection of full-color cartoons chronicles the mishaps and misadventures of the Fox family, ranging from Roger's computer ineptitude and Peter's baseball frustrations to mom Andy's culinary trials and Paige's shopping exploits. Original. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author
Bill Amend graduated with a physics degree from Amherst College. In 1988, FoxTrot became nationally syndicated. Amend lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836217594
• ISBN-13: 978-0836217599
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #172,824 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Foxtrot humor at its best, September 21, 2004

By	Geo - See all my reviews

FoxTrot follows a family of five through their bizzare everyday lives. Roger, the father, is a mid-level office worker, and his wife Andy is a successful columnist. Peter, the oldest child, is a high school senoir with a passion for sports but without the skill. Paige, the middle child, enjoys shopping but hates schoolwork. Jason, the youngest child, enjoys schoolwork and harrassing his sister.

Bill Amend had been writing Foxtrot for about four years when he drew the comic strips in this collection, so at this point he had refined his humor without needing to reuse any older storylines. Most of the comic strips play up the sibling rivalry between Peter, Paige, and Jason very well. The book also features a number of comic strips that feature Peter's girlfriend Denise, who is not featured as much in more recent strips, and it also includes a large number of references to pop culture. The longer storylines in the book include two vacations by the Fox family: one to an amusement park, and one to the hot desert in the summer. Amend also drew several new panels for the center of the book that show Paige's dreams about her idealized French lover Pierre. The book still occasionally tocuhes on serious subjects, too, such as when Peter experiments with chewing tobacco.

Overall, this is classical Foxtrot humor. Foxtrot fans should definitely buy this book, but even casual readers of Foxtrot comic strips will find something to enjoy in this book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never-ending Fun, February 17, 2007

By	Sophie Cacique Gaul (Austin, Tejas) - See all my reviews

I have been a faithful FoxTrot reader for years. Roger, Andy and their kids Peter, Paige and Jason are always good for a reality check with a large dose of laughter. I've got two girls and let me tell you, I see a lot of my kids in Paige with, I believe, even a healthy dose of Jason thrown in. And they have Peter's bottomless stomach. Of course, they're faithful FoxTrot readers too. I used to read the strip to them, explain what was going on, but now they get it just fine and we three all laugh together. Then my girls try and explain the strip to their dad, who pretends he doesn't get it.

The FoxTrot folks are a great family, one we sort of got used to checking up on every day, so we took the news that Mr. Amend was going to cease daily distribution of his wonderfully funny people and turn his strip to Sunday only, with a bit of sadness. Still, we have these terrific FoxTrot books to keep us going with our FoxTrot fix. Mr. Amend is to be commended for his great gift to our culture and his great gift to so many lives. I truly believe a laugh a day, helps keep the blues away and the FoxTrot gang are always good for a laugh. Heck there are a lot of laughs in the FoxTrot books. I know, I have them all and I am, along with my girls and my hubby dear, eagerly awaiting the next one.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, we don't have an iguana, but my girls do have a pet gecko and, you guessed it, his name is Quincy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I cant get enough of it!, May 1, 2005

By	Mr. Shiraz Moosajee "shiraz_moosajee" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Yet another amazing foxtrot anthology, The best word to describe it is just plain funny, this is a good long book, so the humor goes on and on.