birth_date: 1962-09-20 00:00:00
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name: Bill Amend
about: Bill Amend 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.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.