The Best of FoxTrot (2 Volume Boxed Set)

Fox Trot was a strip I read from the beginning in my college newspaper back in the late 1980s. I used to buy the books in order to keep up with the strip, but when my wife and I had kids in the mid 1990s, I stopped buying those. Getting this collection was like jumping on a time machine to Fun-Fun Mountain. Being reunited with Paige, Peter, Jason, and their parents was like rediscovering old friends and old favorite foods that you had forgotten existed. This book is filled with strips Bill Amend personally picked out from his two-decade run creating the strip, and there are occasional annotations (not enough for my taste) by Amend that let us know what he was thinking about some of the strips.My only complaint about this collection was that it only had about 1700 strips. There were another 6700 or so I would love to have read again.

This is first time I got books from Amazon, due to certain obvious factor. I have read this partially in the book shop here in my country and already I find that it is of certain keep sake. It is never too late for anyone, at any age to appreciate comics, but to house everything under one cover with its unforgettable content is difficult. However, one can try to cut out the content from the newspaper diligently and paste onto a scrap book, the other method would be to own a copy of the strip in a book like the one I have purchased. The book capture almost every essence of our daily life that the Fox family is going through, and it is worth purchasing and read it at your own time under any lights and environment. The details are in color and black/white which tells us that not all the strips should be in color but also black and white in their early days. Reading some of the strips actually bring us to some extend of our real life that you may laugh about, weep, hate and frustrated about. It is written in plain simple English with the correct size of fonts that increase its readability. Last but not the least, the only downside is the size which can made smaller, like the size of a ipad, so that it is more portable.

My 12-year old son bought this with his own money and thinks it is totally awesome. The comics themselves are fantastic and all 3 of our kids read them. But he also really enjoys Bill Amend's comments in the margins about his own work. The only potential downside (if there could be one) is that parts of most of the remaining FoxTrot books are included in this collection, so he is having a hard time picking which to buy next. All in all, a great purchase.

Our girls are good readers, and are ages 6, 12 and 15. That's quite an age gap but all three enjoy this humor book. It sits on the kitchen counter and each one reads a few pages as they eat breakfast and get ready for school. They have been doing this for a couple of months now so we've gotten our money's worth and more. The characters are quirky, and the cartoon children interact like real children often do. I highly recommend it.

I was a big fan of Bill Amend growing up, and the humor and banter of FoxTrot has probably been more influential on modern cartoonists that he might initially get credit for. So I was eager to get this collection, despite not having really kept up with the comic in recent years.Amend is perhaps notorious for never including any "bonus" material in his book compilations, but at the same time, he hasn't been one to shy away from interviews or convention appearances. So this best-of seemed like a great opportunity to get some insight into his creative process, character observations, and the origins of FoxTrot. Maybe some "scrapbook" material, sketches, rejected ideas, anecdotes...Alas, it ends up feeling like a favorite musician's greatest hits album, where the liner notes are nothing but artsy photos. All we get is an introduction, described by Amend himself as "mercifully short" (don't be so hard on yourself, Bill!), and as also described by him, occasional annotations, which he wasn't kidding about.To be fair, the annotations are about as frequent as those given by Watterson in his Tenth Anniversary Calvin book, although he had more space for each one. And Watterson included a surprising bounty of essays and analysis, which we don't get any of here.As far as the actual comics go, it's fun to look at how much the characters have changed visually over the years (lankier bodies and more angular noses), and how much more ambitious Amend has gotten artistically, for an otherwise simply drawn strip. And it's amusing how many pop cultural milestones have come and gone in 20 years, as usually seen through the bespectacled eyes of a 10-year-old Jason.It was nice to see the entire "Jason summer camp" storyline included here, but I was bummed to see that the "Eugene Blankenship" saga from "Pass the Loot" wasn't. All in all, it's great if you don't own all the previous books, otherwise there's not much here that really sheds new light on a modern comics classic.

Great collection in a large format. Lots of fun to read, even though dated on some subjects and technology, but that is to be expected on a retrospective collection. Wish there were more author's notes, but no big deal, this is great.

I've been a Foxtrot fan for over a decade, so this was a great purchase. I've already read it a few times in the short time I've had it.

This two-volume collection is a great refresher of FOXTROT from the beginning to theend of the daily run strips. Each strip has it printed date. Why I waited two yearsto purchase, but glad I did a week ago here on amazon.com. Margin andecdotes fromBill Amend make for fun reading.

I love these books. I didn't realize they would come in a box case, so that was a nice surprise.

Fantastic. Well worth the money. So much re-readability. A hit with kids and adult alike.

I gave this 5 stars because the cartoons are HILARIOUS. However, I would give it ZERO stars for originality. ALL cartoon strips are COPIED from other cartoon books by Bill Amend. If you have the full size books, you already have these strips. I feel RIPPED OFF.

This isn't a strip that made it across here, but despite that, it's still one of my favourites.Detailing the day-to-day life of the fox family, this is an amalgam of many family types you'll know.Andy and Roger, the mother and father, long struggling with Paige, the hormonal teenage daughter, Peter, the Jock who isn't, and Jason, the genius you just know is going to end up as a Bond villain.This box set, spread across two big paperbacks, follows the family from the first strips, through to the final strips, before the author decided to go weekly instead of daily.You can see the growth in the strip, that maybe isn't so evident now it's weekly. The friendship between Eileen Jacobson and the woman hating Jason, Paige moving up to high school, and the romance between Peter and Denise, who suddenly seems to vanish. I miss Denise.This is no Calvin, or Far Side, but it is a fun strip, that will give you a few laughs, and isn't that sometimes all you need.