The award-winning Perry Bible Fellowship has a achieved a cult following both online and in its weekly appearances in newspapers and magazines around the world. Now, for the first time, the hilarious cartoons of Nicholas Gurewitch are being collected in this handsome hardcover edition.
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Even the most benevolent impulse is sure to lead to a planet in ruins in this debut collection of Gurewitch's popular Web comic, The Perry Bible Fellowship. The dark, surreal humor is often compared to The Far Side but has an even more brutal and fatalistic sense of humor. Lavishly colored, the art switches among detailed depictions of comedy staples like sloths and dinosaurs to an empty-faced cast of doomed stick figure dreamers. Gurewitch's true strength is in expertly using the four-panel comic strip structure to suggest entire storylines and their bleak payoffs. In one, a man and woman stand in a field full of dead bodies, and the woman reacts angrily when she discovers the secret revealed in the final panel: the touching message Will you marry me? written on a hillside with the bodies. Similar themes of pop culture tropes played out to the point of disaster abound: aliens decide to kill the Earth instead of a planet of cute puppies, heaven is found to be not so cool when God forbids billiards, and so on. But as usual, attempting to analyze the humor defeats the purpose—Gurewitch's strips are destined to be refrigerator door classics in the very near future.
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From School Library Journal
Sweetness and light turn dark and grisly in this award-winning cult fave web strip having nothing to do with the Bible. The cover suggests a children's book: candy colors and candy people—who happen to be burning one of their number at the stake. The strips differ in art styles: some realistic, some cartoony; others evoking R. Crumb, Raggedy Ann, Chinese prints, Mother Goose, Bil Keane, Gundam manga, or Edward Gorey. Endings tend to the nastily downbeat. "Dad? There's someone at the door to see you," announces a smiling youngster to his head-in-a-book father. Enter an immense and very cool robot, basketball under an arm and cap on backwards. "You're under arrest for not being fun!" it sings out. Dad merely looks—and power rays zzzap from his eyes and blow the intruder to bits as the kid starts to cry. Or violently downbeat. "I love you," exclaims the Sun. "I love you, too!" says Earth. "Oh, kiss me." Trees, baby carriage, and people go up in flames. Quite a few gags relate to sex. Two guys ogle a horselike rear end. "Man, I'd like to get with that fine booty," says one. "That's disgusting," says the other. "She looks like she's 13"—and all three are revealed as centaurs. For sophisticated adult collections.—M.C.
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"Not today my little one",
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This review is from: The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories (Hardcover)
PBF is unlike any other comic out there and I'm really happy it has finally been collected into a book! The art swings between beautifully-polished and incredibly simplistic. The ocassional homage to another style (the Edward Gorey-inspired "The Throbblefoot Aquarium" is one of my favorites) is also refreshing and impressive. The art really compliments the odd but brilliant jokes imbedded in each comic. Some are obvious. Others take a while to sink in - I'm not proud of the fact that it took me over a week to "get" one PBF comic. Five stars for wit, writing, and art. PBF is currently delivering what Gary Larson's "The Far Side" brought to the late 80's, just not for as wide an audience.
As noted by others - NOT for children, unless your kids are just that much cooler than their peers.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book, but not that much extra stuff,
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This review is from: The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Let me say first off that Nicholas Gurewitch is an amazing writer and artist, and his work is spectacular. Some previously black & white strips were colored for this book, and they look great.
My only problem with this book is that there really aren't a lot of extras. There are a couple pages of "lost comics" and that's it. I was hoping for some commentary, some extra comics exclusive to the book. At the end of the book I was a little underwhelmed. But don't be put off from buying this book. It's still an excellent piece of work.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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"It's his Nut!",
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This review is from: The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories (Hardcover)
I love intelligent humor- it probably doesn't hurt that my husband is a comedian and this style of humor is right up his alley. It also doesn't hurt that this book is full of 3-4 panel strips that will have you laughing out loud. An added plus is that the art-style constantly changes throughout the book. Some strips are very line-heavy, with great attention to detail, while others could have been drawn by a 6 year old.
And, it's very funny. And only for adults. No kids. Seriously. =)
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