Bill Amend is the creator of the FoxTrot comic strip, syndicated since 1988 by Andrews McMeel Universal. FoxTrot's numerous book collections have combined sales of more than 3.5 million copies. Amend received the 2006 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society, and, in 2012, received the Inkpot Award for Comic Arts from San Diego Comic-Con. He has a BA in physics from Amherst College and currently lives in the Midwest.