Welcome to Jasorassic Park: A FoxTrot Collection

FoxTrot (B&W) #12

by Bill Amend

Universal Press Syndicate newspaper *FoxTrot

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

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining as ever.

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Working on completing my collection of Foxtrot. A fun classic from the 1998!

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/3.6 stars - Very cute stuff. I especially liked the strips involving Jason and his friend Marcus at science camp.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

A humorous and laugh out loud collection from the 90's featuring the Fox family.

[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.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Foxtrot is a great Sunday comic series, and I enjoy picking these up when I need a little pick me up. Sometimes though the selfishness of the characters really gets to me. It's a silly thing, like Peter eating all the food, or Paige using one of her mother's favorite books to squash a bug because she didn't want to ruin her latest cosmo. At first these things didn't bother me but since I read these all the time over and over it makes me upset. Totally silly but that's the only reason this doesn't get higher stars on my list. Otherwise the artwork and stories are great, lots of fun.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection is notable for an extended sequence during which Jason and his best friend Marcus go to science camp, where they encounter a girl from their school and her bunkmate Phoebe. It won't last, of course, but at least for the course of the summer the boys learn that they can be friends with girls.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection is excellent. Bill Amend has a gift of making the everyday family hilarious and very true. I could relate to a lot of the strips. I love the simple, well drawn style of the comic and the imaginative take on situations. Highly recommended.

[Mita · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Axis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite enjoyable, and very funny. The Jassorasic Park story was hilarious.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book from my childhood that I owned.

[Pam Bales · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can you say - it's a compilation of the newspaper comic strip Foxtrot. It is a hoot.

[Hope · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this as my first experience with the Foxtrot comics. They are a lot of fun, and definitely remind me of Peanuts in many ways. I would highly recommend them.