Bill Amend
Bill Amend was born in 1962 and grew up in Burlingame, California. He has Bachelor’s degree in physics from Amherst College. Amend is married, and has two children, and currently lives in Kansas City.
Bill created two strips, “Bango’s Ridge” and “FoxTrot” after college. After three years of trying, FoxTrot was picked up in 1988 by Universal Press Syndicate, and has been running ever since. Amend is one of the few cartoonists that has broken the 1000 newspaper barrier.
The strip follows the Fox family, Rodger, Andy, Jason, Paige, and Peter through every day life. Whether it’s Andy’s cooking, Jason’s money-making schemes, Peter’s Thanksgiving preperations, Amend always has a great spin on the strip. Probably the funniest thing to me personally, is Amend’s use of Pascal or C programming code in some of the strips featuring Jason. Talk about your inside jokes!
This is one of the few (the other two being Dilbert, and Get Fuzzy) comic calendars that I seek out each year, and a strip I read every day.