Final Fox Trot
Fox Trot is my favorite still-running comic strip. Or should I say “was”. Today is Bill Amend’s last daily Fox Trot strip. He’ll continue to do Sundays, but after 19 years, the stories of the Fox family are at an end.
Some who are willing to trudge through the garbage that passes itself off as lowest common denominator fare will occasionally find a new strip worth reading. But now that Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side have long since passed, Fox Trot marks the end of an age for me. I’ve been reading the comic for 12 of its 19 years. I actually got to meet Bill Amend at a presentation/signing at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. He signed my copy of Foxtrotius Maximus.
I’ll be sad to see the comic go in its daily form because Amend had a great eye for pop culture. It kept the strip fresh, funny, and popular with a geek like myself.
It’s a great strip and when I have kids of my own, I’ll be sure to share it with them. But that’s getting way ahead of myself. For right now, I’ll just enjoy my 365-day Fox Trot calendar and continue to enjoy the humor that Jason, Paige, Peter, Andy, and Roger have provided me all these years.
Thank you, Mr. Amend and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
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