Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything

Download or read book Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet ten-year-old Lord of the Rings nerd Jason Fox and his high-school freshman sister, Paige. Jason can't believe he and his sister are both vying for front-row seats to the release of the movie. There's no denying that things will never be the same with heartthrob Orlando Bloom's involvement in Jason's favorite series. Don't forget their underachieving older brother, Peter. With three strong adolescent personalities in one household, colorful stuff often hits the fan; dad Roger usually ducks to avoid it, while mom Andy tries to keep it from staining the rug. Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything lampoons memorable moments from 2003 and 2004, such as the East Coast blackout. In the FoxTrot version, an "ink outage" renders several days' strips only partially drawn. "I called Funky Winkerbean. He says the ink's out over the entire grid," Jason reports. In another series of strips, Jason's latest money-making scheme involves creating an animated film to rival the box office blockbusters of Pixar and Dreamworks: "It's the tender story of a leech's search for his missing son. I'm calling it Finding Hemo. The success of FoxTrot has yielded consequences creator Bill Amend may never have imagined. The strip has been used as a question on the game show Jeopardy! and as an answer in the New York Times crossword. It's a fitting irony that FoxTrot has become a fixture of pop culture, the very phenomenon it parodies with such keen wit.

Download or read book Houston, You Have a Problem written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of previously published comic strips.

Download or read book Framing Fan Fiction written by Kristina Busse and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual and collective erotic engagement; as a shared interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative markers and illustrate the complexity of fan creations; and as a point of contention around which community conflicts over ethics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts and fannish tropes on the one hand, and the highly intertextual embeddedness of these communal creations on the other, the book demonstrates that fan fiction is simultaneously a literary and a social practice. Framing Fan Fiction deploys personal history and the interpretations of specific stories to contextualize fan fiction culture and its particular forms of intertextuality and performativity. In doing so, it highlights the way fans use fan fiction’s reimagining of the source material to explore issues of identities and peformativities, gender and sexualities, within a community of like-minded people. In contrast to the celebration of originality in many other areas of artistic endeavor, fan fiction celebrates repetition, especially the collective creation and circulation of tropes. An essential resource for scholars, Framing Fan Fiction is also an ideal starting point for those new to the study of fan fiction and its communities of writers.

Download or read book Jam-Packed FoxTrot written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More comic adventures of the Fox family.

Download or read book Jasotron: 2012 written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seventh collection of "FoxTrot" comic strips continues to critique society's latest events and obsessions and documents the rivalry between Jason and Paige as well as Roger's efforts to monitor his hairline

Download or read book My Hot Dog Went Out, Can I Have Another? written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 18th collection of the fabulous comic strip, FoxTrot creator Bill Amend delivers a look at teen and family life that is consistently fresh, irreverent, and wacky. The antics of adolescent siblings Jason, Peter, and Paige try parents Roger and Andy but deliver laughs to readers as they're drawn into their chaotic world. The wildly popular and enduring strip has won-and kept-fans nationwide, as they keep coming back for more of the crazy life of the Fox family. Amend keeps his comedy fresh by dipping into the pop culture pool, which never fails to provide plenty of fodder for him to parody brilliantly.

Download or read book Math, Science, and Unix Underpants written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of math and science cartoons in the FoxTrot series.