Foxtrot

FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend. The strip launched on April 10, 1988, and it ran seven days a week until December 30, 2006. Since then, FoxTrot has strictly appeared on Sundays.

The strip revolves around the daily lives of the Fox family, composed of parents Andrea (Andy) and Roger, and their children, Peter, Paige, and Jason. It covers a wide range of subject matter. including spoofs of pop culture fads, nerd culture, and popular consumer products.

Publication history
Amend states that after he submitted strips for three years, in 1987 Universal Press Syndicate (UPS) offered him a contract. FoxTrot was first syndicated by UPS on April 10, 1988.

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 a week-long arc of the characters discussing a "cartoonist" semi-retiring to Sundays only, and what methods he would use to phase out the daily strips. The last daily strip was printed on December 30, 2006. At the end of its run as a daily comic, FoxTrot was carried by more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide. Since moving to one comic every week, Amend has said that it's harder to remain topical because Sunday's deadline is 30 days ahead of publication, compared with just 10-day deadlines the rest of the week. It has been joked that Amend has switched to a Sundays-only schedule "so he could spend 18 hours a day playing World of Warcraft."

Trivia

 * It started in 1988, that's a long time ago!
 * They have their own fandom! go HERE