Everything about Bill Amend totally explained
Bill Amend (born
September 20,
1962 in
Northampton,
Massachusetts) 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. In 1982 Amend took first place among sophomores in a mathematics prize examination at Amherst.
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.
On
May 21,
1999, Amherst College awarded him an
honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters.
Amend made a
television appearance on
The Screen Savers, which aired
October 20 2003 on the former
TechTV. Amend is also an avid
World of Warcraft player, but refuses to reveal his character's name, although he did mention in an interview with Allakhazam.com (a World of Warcraft fan site) that he played on the server 'Bronzebeard' (Jason is often shown or referred to playing "World of Warquest" in the strip).
On
December 5 2006, Universal Press Syndicate issued a
press release stating that Amend's strip,
FoxTrot, would turn into a Sunday-only strip. Amend stated that he wants to continue doing the strip, but at a less hurried pace. This news was followed by several weeks of the characters discussing a "cartoonist" semi-retiring to Sundays only, and what methods he'd use to phase out the daily strips. The last daily Foxtrot cartoon was printed on December 30, 2006.
On
May 26 2007, Amend was presented with the
Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.
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