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FoxTrot (B&W) #18
Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A FoxTrot Collection
Whether they're starting high school for the first time, devising their own Winter Olympics, or working out ways to foil their parents, the three Fox kids never fail to create pandemonium.
FoxTrot cleverly conveys the identifiably goofy goings-on in this crazy household. At the core of much of the strip's wild humor is whiz kid Jason, age 10, who tortures his parents, Roger and Andy, and two teenage siblings, Peter and Paige, with his computer skills and his pet Iguana, Quincy. One strip in Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables, illustrates the family dynamics especially well: When Peter makes a racy call to girlfriend Denise on his cell phone, he's shocked to find out he's actually dialed his mother. As he enters the living room, Jason not-so-innocently says, "Oh, dear. Did someone reprogram your speed-dial list again?"
FoxTrot delivers fresh, irreverent, and wacky humor. You're Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables looks at family life through the eyes of Bill Amend.
Universal Press Syndicate newspaper feature:
*FoxTrot
Author's web site: www.foxtrot.com/
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
About the author
Bill Amend
66 books305 followersBill 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.
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.
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October 25, 2020Tem uma piada ou outra dignas de registo. As outras (diria que a maioria) são datadas e, por isso mesmo, quase incompreensíveis a esta distância (livro publicado originalmente em 2003).
November 14, 2016
I grew up reading the daily comics, but much of the humor in FoxTrot went over my head as a kid due to the pop culture allusions. Now that I'm older and better versed in entertainment, I can read, laugh at, and enjoy a collection such as this.
February 19, 2009
Amend is one of the funniest comic artists around. His jokes are funny and hit family relationships squarely on the head. He is a very talented artist, and very imaginative. I love to look for his "Easter eggs" in the form of newspaper articles with comic writer jokes and how from frame to frame the Fox's household picture and magazines will "move". Overall anyone who loves to laugh aloud will enjoy this.
August 18, 2007
There's no other way of saying it except that FoxTrot is made of awesome. Amen!
June 23, 2016
Another great foxtrot collection! I love the Harry Potter vs. lord of the rings strips!
December 19, 2019
Li em português.
July 9, 2016
In a few simple comic strips that don't ever use the words twin towers, terrorism, 9/11, or anything similar, Amend shows how the terrorist attack--or any disaster--impacts a family far removed from the actual events. The rest of this collection is fine, as usual, and includes Jason and Eileen Jacobson fighting about the merits of Harry Potter and the Ring trilogy. But the 9/11 strips are genius.
January 5, 2009
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.
May 16, 2018
Good, clean Foxtrot fun. A good pick-me-up when someone's feeling a little low. The book includes such things as Peter's most memorable haircut & the sweet yet humorous 9-11 strips, as well as the post-Halloween aftermath.
February 17, 2008
a quintessential guide to my old roommate's sciencey dork humor
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November 17, 2025
A good collection of FoxTrot comics, from around late 2001 from context (Roger giving blood despite being a coward around needles, Jason destroying pumpkins with "Osama" written on them). There are also a curiously large number of strips with the sentient(?) Mac* taking orders verbally; I know this is mostly for comedic purposes, but I have to wonder if Jason programmed it to be that way, since they weren't at that level to my knowledge?
Anyway, it's tough to summarise the book, since the newspaper-style story format means "stories" run for six strips maximum (Monday through Saturday) before changing subjects. The humour is hit-or-miss (though mostly hit, in this volume), because the newspaper-style storytelling extends to "is run in newspapers and can't be too offensive or risqué lest the readers complain."
I may have also just read enough newspaper comics to find the humour forgettable, even with a good series like FoxTrot. No wonder newspapers are dying!
Recommended for FoxTrot fans specifically, probably fine for newspaper subscribers—if those still exist—since MOST of the jokes are universal enough to reach a wide audience.
*I don't know which one
Anyway, it's tough to summarise the book, since the newspaper-style story format means "stories" run for six strips maximum (Monday through Saturday) before changing subjects. The humour is hit-or-miss (though mostly hit, in this volume), because the newspaper-style storytelling extends to "is run in newspapers and can't be too offensive or risqué lest the readers complain."
I may have also just read enough newspaper comics to find the humour forgettable, even with a good series like FoxTrot. No wonder newspapers are dying!
Recommended for FoxTrot fans specifically, probably fine for newspaper subscribers—if those still exist—since MOST of the jokes are universal enough to reach a wide audience.
*I don't know which one
July 13, 2025
4/5. I love the dynamic between Jason and Marcus. Always trying to outdo each other and being nerdy in their own special way. Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables is also an elite book name. Foxtrot really is a special blend of a comic strip.
March 7, 2019
Entertaining as always.
March 12, 2017
A book from my childhood that I owned.
June 19, 2008
Hilarious!
July 3, 2009
The title alone is worth it. LOL.
May 25, 2011
These are the most hilarious ever! I LOVE their expressions!
September 9, 2011
The most hilarious comic strip I have ever come across and won with embodies aspects of my life.
May 1, 2015
nice collection of foxtrot comic strips!
August 26, 2016
Oh my!! Hilarious!! I can't wait to have my teens read this! :)
July 29, 2015
Super divertido.:)
February 20, 2020
One of my all time favorite collections!
September 21, 2008
Jason and Marcus are the funniest! I love the 'trash talk'.
July 4, 2010
I just love Fox Trot -- that is about all I can say.
June 27, 2012
2 em cada 10 tiras são do camandro
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