Take Us to Your Mall : A FoxTrot Collection

FoxTrot (B&W) #8

by Bill Amend

The harassed mom and dad characters from the zany Fox household continue their pursuit of health and happiness while raising three energetic and rivalous kids, in a new collection that introduces the family's pet iguana. Original.

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

130 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1995

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

[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. It's quite repetitive, but still funny.

Since the book features strips from about more than two decades ago, quite a bit of the technology and pop culture references are very dated, and our girls didn't get all of them.

On the whole, it's an entertaining book with many witty observations about family life in America. We all enjoyed reading it.

[David Allen Hines · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always loved the Foxtrot strip and purchased many of the books in the series in the late 1990s. Re-reading them now 20 years later has been a great experience! There are a couple of strips with some references now dated by the passage of time, but overall this Foxtrot volume was a delight to read an any fan of the series will enjoy it very much!

[Tony Laplume · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now that Young Sheldon has come and gone, rereading some FoxTrot is like experiencing all over again how a lot of fans expected the origin of Sheldon Cooper to actually look like. I guess there are just some things a cartoonist can do better than child actors…

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining as always.

[Victoria & David Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continually entertaining ( and funny too )

[Meghan Bohn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Umpteenth re-read. Perfect bedtime reading material.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read three FoxTrot books lately and they're all pretty much the same: very entertaining, rarely monotonous, usually very funny, and make me sympathize with Jason way too much. Bill Amend does pretty well at juggling his cast, so everyone gets their own time in the limelight, though it does seem to me like Jason usually gets it-- probably because Jason is the funniest and in some ways deepest character.

Anyway, I like FoxTrot, it's a fun comic, and if you enjoy it you'll enjoy these books. If you've never read it, but enjoy slice of life that's heavy on the humor and iguanas, you'll probably like this too.

[Valerie]

This is not so easily dated as other Foxtrot books. The copyright date is 1995, but as there's no New Year in it...

I have other copies of some of the cartoons, which I may have clipped from newspapers at the time. But I didn't date all the cartoons in my collection, either.

This includes an episode in which Andy (the mother) considers having another child during her midlife crisis. She reconsiders, but she's still thinking about the Ferrari...

One detail that I don't think I've mentioned before. When a character is reading a newspaper, the cartoonist often adds a headline detailing one of his own fantasies.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jason dreams that he meets aliens, but the superior beings look and act just like his sister Paige. What a nightmare for him! Paige gets asked to a school dance, although she and her escort are both so shy that they only get one dance together. And Andy manages to get an out-of-shape Roger to aerobics--once--in this collection of comic strips.

[Mita · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Noemi · Rating 4 out of 5]

hahahahahahaha!! i absolutely love Foxtrot!! HQF!

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Foxtrot is just one of those comics that's fun to read. Maybe I won't read it over and over again, but it's something I like to revisit now and then every few years.

[Nicolas Hoffmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the greatest cartoonists past or present.

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another early compendium of a favorite formerly daily comic series.