How Come I'm Always Luigi?: A FoxTrot Collection

FoxTrot (B&W) #23

by Bill Amend

In 1988, a comic strip burst onto the funny pages of America's newspapers with attitude, wit, and a big dose of reality when it comes to family dynamics.

Today, FoxTrot is one of the most popular and lauded strips around.

How Come I'm Always Luigi? is the latest saga of the slightly off-center Fox family, parents Roger and Andy, teenagers Peter and Paige, 10-year-old brainiac Jason, and pet iguana Quincy. This new collection of cartoons continues their mishaps and misadventures as they battle with school, work, video games, and of course, each other.

Anyone who's ever experienced the trying turmoil of family life will relish this latest collection of FoxTrot¿a strip that inspires laughs and instant identification like few others.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels, Cartoon, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Bill Amend is an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip FoxTrot.
Born as William J. C. Amend III, Amend attended high school in Burlingame, California where he was a cartoonist on his school newspaper. Amend is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Amherst College, where he drew comics for the college paper. He majored in physics and graduated in 1984.
After a short time in the animation business, Amend decided to pursue a cartooning career and signed on with Universal Press Syndicate. FoxTrot first appeared on April 10, 1988.
Amend currently lives in the midwestern United States with his wife and two children, a boy and girl.

Reviews

[hea booktubes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reread, read these as a teen. Enjoyable.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

How Come I'm Always Luigi?: A Foxtrot Collection by Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel Publishers 2006)(791.5973) is another thin collection which is contained in a larger collection that I've already read. My rating: 7/10, finished 11/6/11.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very welcome light relief after reading 400 pages about the taking of Berlin in 1945.

[Musiquedevie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Forever a favorite - this one has a lot of the Fox Trot classic jokes my family and I quote in this one, e.g. The Humbler.

[cleo s · Rating 5 out of 5]

So funny!!!!

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perhaps my favorite FoxTrot collection so far, and that's saying a lot. Jason and Marcus are my favorite characters, and the humor of this collection was just plain awesome. A must-have for anyone who considers themselves remotely geeky. Even the non-geeks will like it too! It's full of references to popular culture and will make you chuckle.

[Josephine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second Bill Amend work that I have read [the first one being: Orlando Bloom Has Ruined everything, and both books were a birthday present from my friend]. I must say that I love this as well! I love Amend's works because it makes me laugh/smile. I particularly liked Jason's de-nerdification process, lol. I also thought that the title of the book is funny, and brilliant. ^_^

[Duane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bill Amend is a great comic strip creator! His work is filled with ordinary family life and that's what makes it so great. Daily sibling rivalry, marriage obsticles, and family life is just some of the themes that he portrays in his work. A great laugh for anyone to enjoy.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

What happens when Andy sends Jason and his friend Marcus out to play in the snow? Snow video games, that's what. Roger learns to play internet poker in another episode of this collection of cartoons.

[Mita · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's no other way of saying it except that FoxTrot is made of awesome. Amen!

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great FoxTrot book, but with video game jokes! Very funny!

[Karrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because everyone every once in a while needs to burst out giggling at day to day idiocies, I think this book is great. Embrace the comics, people. :)

[Xuefranklin · Rating 5 out of 5]

the best

[Julian · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite part was the the star wars related comic strips through out the book.

[Kirsti · Rating 3 out of 5]

I rarely read cartoons now that I get most of my news online instead of from a print newspaper. This was a fun read.

[Ane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laughter is the best medicine :) this one delivers :)

[April eclecticbookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

always good for a laugh

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good dose of Foxtrot is always welcome.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing our recent fascination with all things Foxtrot, we all zipped through this early anthology of the popular comic strip by Bill Amend.

I really enjoy this comic strip, but after reading several different anthologies, the jokes are starting to feel a bit worn out. Still, I really enjoyed seeing older versions of the characters. Like my beloved Garfield strip from my childhood, it's interesting to see how the artist's drawing style changes over time.

Since the book features strips from about more than two decades ago, quite a bit of the pop culture references are very dated, and our girls didn't get all of them. And I had to really laugh at the technology (computers, phones, VHS videos (and movie rental stores!), etc.), since it's so ancient, yet I remember what life was like back then.

On the whole, it's an entertaining book with many witty observations about family life in America. I loved Bill Watterson's foreward, especially his commentary on the sincerity of this strip and its humorous and truthful observations of human nature. We all enjoyed reading it.