Bill Amend is an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip, Fox Trot.
Bill Amend was born in 1962 in Northampton, Massachusetts and attended high school in Burlingame, California where he was a cartoonist on his high school newspaper. He attended Amherst College where he drew comics for the college paper. He majored in physics and graduated in 1984.
After a short time in the animation business, he decided to pursue a cartooning career and signed on with Universal Press Syndicate. Fox Trot first appeared on April 10, 1988.
Bill Amend currently lives in the midwest USA with his wife and children.
He made a television appearance on The Screen Savers, which aired October 20, 2003 on the former TechTV.
Bill Amend's Personal Home Page (http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/)
