And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection

FoxTrot (B&W) #25

by Bill Amend

Bill Amend's FoxTrot , syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, humorously depicts suburban living through the cavortings of the Fox family. Kids Peter, Paige, and Jason, along with parents Roger and Andy, suffer through the same fads, fixations, and familial land mines that readers know so well.

As the 25th FoxTrot comic collection, And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester! features strips published from February 2006 through December 2006—including Amend's very last daily strip. Jason continues to channel his unique brand of geekiness—primarily at Paige's expense, while Peter continues to lord over them both. Parents Roger and Andy try to keep up with their children's antics, usually to no avail.

Bill Amend was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society's prestigious Reuben Award in 2006 and 2007.

Author's web site: www.foxtrot.com/

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

168 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

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

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Get to know the Fox family and all of their quirks in this comic strip.

[Narariel · Rating 5 out of 5]

The last Foxtrot book with dailies, I enjoyed the various storylines included.

[Cullen Bryant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book EVER!!!!!!

[Musiquedevie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still good, but definitely not the best. Some storylines are refreshed older ones and some strips haven’t aged well.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Always worth a read. The last of the daily strips :-(

[Becky B · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last collection of Foxtrot dailies. These are all in black and white, and include Amend's fairwell to dailies (which was hilarious, of course).

I picked this and another Foxtrot up at a book fair this weekend. I did not realize I had snatched up one of the first collections of Foxtrot and the last collection of dailies. I have to say, Amend has improved over the years. This collection is much more hilarious.

[Mita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love each and every single one of the Foxtrot collections, and it saddens me that this collection will be the last for a long while. Amend decided that he would stop drawing his dailies and draw only weekly comics, which is a bummer, especially for those addicted to his witty pop culture jokes! I sure will miss having my daily fix of Foxtrot :(

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The FoxTrot comic strip discontinued daily (though not Sunday) cartoons shortly after the time this book came out, so it features Amend's last thoughts about the daily strip--in the form of Roger and Andy musing about a cartoonist retiring. Roger also takes the kids on a camping trip to the back yard, when his original plans fall through.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Made of Polyester (A Foxtrot Collection) by Bill Amend (Andrews McMeel Publishers LLC 2007)(741.5973) is a small collection of Fox family foolishness. My rating: 7/10, finished 11/5/11.

[Amber the Human · Rating 3 out of 5]

My parents own this book, so while staying with them recently, I charged through it. These were the last of the comics that Amend wrote before switching to his only-Sundays mode. But you can't tell. The characters seem as timeless as ever.

[Roy Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this for $1.25 used at the Salvation Army thrift store and picked it up. I'm glad I did, because it made me laugh out loud several times. Highly recommended.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greatly enjoyable. As always.

[Ane · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 13 year old and I laughed aloud at this one! Hilarious!! Gotta love this Fox family! :)