Fox Trot is a daily comic strip by cartoonist Bill Amend. It began syndication on April 10, 1988. It is centered around the misadventures of the Fox family.
Since Amend was a physics major in college, and is somewhat of a nerd, Fox Trot often includes mathematical formulas. The mathematical formulas that not-infrequently appear in Fox Trot are correct, if a bit oddly flavored. They are the sort of thing that would be written only as exercises simultaneously covering basic skills in calculus, algebra, trigonometry, and arithmetic in one short line, but not really having a clear central purpose the way elementary mathematical exercises generally do.
The characters in the family include:
- Roger Fox: the father, corporate slave and not-too-bright
- Andrea "Andy" Fox: the mother, a freelance writer
- Peter Fox: older brother, jock
- Paige Fox: style-obsessed sister
- Jason Fox: annoying nerdy little brother, mutual mortal enemies with Paige, who often breaks his glasses
- Quincy: Jason's pet iguana, chews on everything
Some recurring characters who are not part of the Fox nuclear family:
- J. P. Pembrook: the CEO of Roger's company, who unknown to him has his million dollar deals analized by a ten-year-old(a.k.a. Jason)
- Fred: Roger's friend at work
- Grandma: Andy's mother who is practicalley perfect compared to the rest of the family, annoys Andy who wants to measure up
- Linda Downer: hasen't appeared since the strips early years, Peter's crush before he meet Denise
- Steve Riley: Peter's best friend, a rocker
- Denise Russo: Peter's blind girlfriend
- Nicole: Paige's best friend, also fashion-obsessed
- Pierre: literally, the boy of Pagie's dreams
- Morton Goldthwait: the "biggest geek in school" according to Pagie. He has a cruch on her.
- Margaret O'Dell: Pagie babysits from this women
- Katherine "Katie" O'Dell: Margaret's daughter whom Pagie babysits
- Miss O'Malley: Jason, Marcus and Eileen's teacher since 1991(previously their teacher was Miss Grinchley)
- Marcus Jones: Jason's best friend, with whom he emulates Star Trek and tortures Paige, has four sisters
- Eileen Jacobson: Jason's worst enemy
- Phoebe Wu: Eileen's companion(dosen't appear often)
- Eugene Wu: Pheobe's brother(appears less than Phoebe)
From June 16 to August 16 1997, Bill Amend did a series of comic strips where Jason atended Lake Bohrmore Science Camp. Jason, Marcus and Eileen all atended this summer camp, and it was the first appearence of Pheobe and Eugene. Morton Goldthwait was Jason's counslor, though he didn't find out until the end of the Jason's stay at camp that he was Paige's sister. For this period of time, only the above mentioned charactors appeared in the strip, and Peter, Paige, Roger and the others only appeared at the begaining and end. After, the end of this series, the strip returned to normal. These comics can be found in Welcome to Jasorasic Park and Camp Foxtrot. In 2000, Pheobe and Eugene appeared in the strip again.
It is syndicated by United Press Syndicate.
List of Fox Trot Books
Collections:
- FoxTrot
- Pass the Loot
- Black Bart Says Draw
- Eight Yards, Down and Out
- Bury My Heart at Fun-Fun Mountain
- Say Hello to Cactus Flats
- May the Force Be with Us, Please
- Take Us to Your Mall
- The Return of the Lone Iguana
- At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts
- Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose
- Welcome to Jasorassic Park
- I'm Flying, Jack...I Mean, Roger
- Think iFruity
- Death By Field Trip
- Encyclopedias Brown and White
- His Code Name Was The Fox
- Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables
- Who's up for some bonding?
Anthologies:
The anthologies are made up of the previous two books, with color Sunday strips (as opposed to black and white in the smaller books) up until and subsequently including Assembled with Care which was made up of the three previous books.
- FoxTrot: The Works (anthology)
- FoxTrot en masse (anthology)
- Enormously FoxTrot (anthology)
- Wildly FoxTrot (anthology)
- FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt (anthology)
- Camp FoxTrot (anthology)
- Assorted FoxTrot (anthology)
- FoxTrot: Assembled with Care (anthology)