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Bill Amend with his 2006 Reuben Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bio<\/h2>\n

Cartoonist Bill Amend started his syndicated comic strip Foxtrot<\/em> in April, 1988. Foxtrot<\/em>, which is distributed by Kansas City’s Andrews McMeel Universal, was featured in more than 1,000 newspapers at its peak. Beginning in December 2006, Foxtrot<\/em> became a Sunday-only strip so Amend could work at a more comfortable pace.<\/p>\n

According to Amend, “FoxTrot tends toward the geeky, with occasional forays into the super geeky.”<\/p>\n

In May 2007, Amend was awarded the 2006 Rueben Award as Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society.<\/p>\n

Amend was born in Massachusetts and currently lives in the Kansas City area. On his website, he says, “Somewhere around fourth grade I discovered I could draw cartoons pretty well and began entertaining myself and friends with homemade comic books\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. In high school I contributed cartoons to various school publications but was more interested in computers, Star Wars<\/em> and Dungeons and Dragons than anything.” Amend attended Amherst College majoring in physics. At Amherst, he was editorial cartoonist for the school paper.<\/p>\n

Awards and Nominations<\/h2>\n