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The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack
Comic strips of the award-winning comic series The Perry Bible Fellowship, this volume spans the entirety of the strip's run, and comes complete with bonus features including lost strips, sketches, and a behind-the-scenes interview by Wondermark's David Malki, and introduction by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno).
Hardcover, 254 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by Dark Horse Comics
(first published September 1st 2008)
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boo because a lot of them are duplicates from the other book, but yay for the new ones (new to me anyway.) this is somewhere between "cathy" and the "tijuana bibles" on the scale of funny vs. offensive.(although cathy is offensive in her own way) and there are still one or two i dont even understand. but they are truly sick and funny and deeply sad at times. and thats what makes me laugh.
I already own "Trial Of Colonel Sweeto," so I have many if not most of the strips in this book, but it was still worth buying, as each strip gets a full page, showing the art off much better.
It's a great book, and Gurewitch really is the spiritual heir of Gary Larson. My biggest wish is two-fold, and both slightly dampen my enthusiasm for the book:
1) Gurewitch gave up PBF too early... Larson and Watterson both worked for a long time before retirement, PBF was really only getting started when Gur...more
It's a great book, and Gurewitch really is the spiritual heir of Gary Larson. My biggest wish is two-fold, and both slightly dampen my enthusiasm for the book:
1) Gurewitch gave up PBF too early... Larson and Watterson both worked for a long time before retirement, PBF was really only getting started when Gur...more
Sometimes I can be a little liberal when it comes to handing out 5 star ratings for books. I have different levels of love for books, and the 5 star system doesn't always seem to express my deep emotional connection (that's right, if a book makes me cry or laugh it’s a keeper (like a man, sans the crying part). For some reason I like my books to create a sea of emotion.) For example: my 5 star rating for "1984" is due to the fact that it is my favorite book of all time, but my 5 star rating for...more
It's hard not to love The Perry Bible Fellowship. At it's best, Nicholas Gurewitch's comic strip is inventive, thought-provoking, and so tightly paced that it's hard to think of another newspaper-style strip that is quite as engaging (Herriman's Krazy Kat comes immediately to mind). To be sure, not all of these strips are brilliant, but when Gurewitch is really on his game, he takes the familiar territory of the comic strip to a level where genuine art begins to creep into the proceedings. This...more
You could go read these comics here, but this book is gorgeous and much better for people who prefer page turning to page clicking. Gurewitch's comics make great use of time, detail, and color. They look so much better than just about anything you can get in a weekly comic, and his jokes are usually pretty great, too. There's an obvious refinement in style as the book goes on, and much more genre-hopping as the book moves on. I really liked many of the "lost" strips Gurewitch only includes here,...more
All the webstrips are collected here on nice glossy paperstock that increases your appreciation for Gurewitch's drawing (ex: wonderfully detailed orgy scene, as seen from heaven), and the book conveniently includes one of those fabric bookmark strings coming out of the spine so you can keep your place. At the end there's a lengthy interview and bonus strips and sketches Gurewitch never published for being subpar, but hahaha some of them were pretty great, the humor heightened by his professed em...more
"...I definitely like to deal with things that I don't totally understand and things that make people uncomfortable. And I like bringing it up in an honest way." This quote from Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch, taken from an interview featured in the back of this fat, lovely collection of his work, is a pretty perfect summary of his comics. Often morbid or lewd, usually smart and shocking, PBF is probably one of my favorite comics of all time. These strips tell stories, sometim...more
"The Perry Bible Fellowship" is an online strip and this edition is a collected version of those strips printed on lovely glossy paper and bound in hardback and cloth. Each page contains one strip which is a variant of 1-4 panels often drawn in varying styles. Nicholas Gurewitch is a master illustrator and can draw all kinds of ways from straight realism, to 19th century Japanese woodcuts, to 1980s NES games, to early 20th century pulp detective comics, to surrealist Dali-esque paintings, to mim...more
Aha, here we have it! The definitive, complete publication of Nicholas Gurewitch's brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon strips! A while back I reviewed the only previous publication of his strips, The Perry Bible Fellowship The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, which I found to be rather disappointing; it contained only a majority of his online strips, leaving out some of my key favorites and many newer strips. This almanack contains every PBF strip ever put online and then some, an...more
Remarkable. Each generation needs someone to argue that everything is a fraud, and Gurewitch does that beautifully. It's the job of the rest of us to integrate him, to say, "Even though everything he says is true, the world is still worth believing in."
I'm no art critic, but the art is gorgeous, full of detail (Gurewitch talks in an interview at the end of the book about how much care he used in choosing the fonts for various strips, for example).
I'm no art critic, but the art is gorgeous, full of detail (Gurewitch talks in an interview at the end of the book about how much care he used in choosing the fonts for various strips, for example).
Comic content is pretty bare-bones, but the book feels wonderfully constructed and the comic's form really benefits from being laid out in coffee-table-book fashion.
The real gold comes at the end, out-takes to show what happens when PBF fails (since it's rarely anything less than a punch to the gut) and a few sketches that let you into the mind of the author.
The final interview is a beautiful read, inspirational even. I would recommend it to the same people who I recommend my self-help collectio...more
The real gold comes at the end, out-takes to show what happens when PBF fails (since it's rarely anything less than a punch to the gut) and a few sketches that let you into the mind of the author.
The final interview is a beautiful read, inspirational even. I would recommend it to the same people who I recommend my self-help collectio...more
My all-time favorite comic strip (sadly, not updated any more). Many of them are wildly inappropriate for work, or children (even though the art style is often very children's-book-ish). Themes of promiscuous sex and gory violence are common. The sense of humor underlying everything is dark, and wonderfully twisted.
Love, love, love PBF. His comics are brilliant and funny and often a little sad and poignant, and the drawings are so interesting and detailed and colorful. Absolutely gorgeous and a must-read. I wish he still had the web comic, because Nicholas Gurewitch is a freaking amazing genius.
Omg, are there more collections of these? I had anticipated this would be a quick and entertaining read. And it was those things. Plus, an artistic and irreverant and clever commenting on our weird world. Sex and violence, robed in bright colors and a four-panel structure. Pure gold.
A great, twisted collection of short graphic humor. Gurewitch doles out lots of three-to-four panel punches in the space of this book, which collects all of his Perry Bible Fellowship strips. Some of the content is oversexed, but the drawings scale nicely to the ambitions of the punchlines. You can get a taste--or read them all for free--at www.pbfcomics.com.
I always keep this book out on my coffee table. Everyone picks this thing up & literally laugh out loud once they see the absurd madness & hilarity these pages contain. If like most, you have never heard of the Perry Bible Fellowship, picture the Far Side on meth, only cuter. This hardcover is well worth owning, yeah you can read most of these strips on line for free, but the enjoyment of owning the book is turning people on to the brilliance of these strips.
PBF comics come in a wide variety of flavors. They can be brilliant and beautiful to look at, or they can be crude and amateurish. Most are terrific, and at its best it's amazing. Too bad there aren't more.
Mostly website content, plus some bonuses I hadn't seen. Secret unpublished comics! Original sketches and alternate versions, and a pretty cool interview that ranged from inspiration to cynicism, and back.
This is a lovely coffee-table book for any sick and twisted household. Of course I had to purchase this fine collection of The Perry Bible Fellowship's, er, unusual comic strips.
Note--put away when Family Circus or Cathy fans drop by for a visit.
Note--put away when Family Circus or Cathy fans drop by for a visit.
Most of the comics (which are hilarious and clever) can be found online, but at the back of the book there are never-published (though, I think one or two are now published) comics. You also get to see some of his earlier conceptions of comics, and a bit of the thought process that goes into creating them.
Most of these are from the website so not much new. That being said, this guy is the lovechild of Gary Larson and Dr. Suess. Can't recommend it highly enough.
I can't think of a valid reason not to give this 5 stars. I enjoyed every page and laughed aloud at every other one. What other praise is there for a comic collection?
I wanted to like this one, but the gruesomeness factor got a bit too much for me. I'm glad I didn't buy it - at least I can return it to the library.
Thanks Adam. For those of us who miss Gary Larson's work, this book is a really satisfying substitute. It also has the raunchy, irreverent flavor of South Park. The stiff breeze panel is too funny.
Outstanding comics. Truly stunning and manages to be offensive without being very offensive. Definitely a highly recommended work but it isn't for everybody.
Duplicates most of it's content from Gurewitch's previous work. Still excellent. I'll be passing along my copy of the Trial of Colonel Sweeto.
This is my kind of comic strip, a few of these even made me laugh out loud (rare indeed) and some are so close to my own sense of humor that the seemed like something I would have written. Fantastic.
This could be better if it were edited (maybe cut 1/4 the content and/or lose the last section). Still, a lot of funny stuff.
Probably the spiritual heir to Gary Larson. Need I say more by way of praise? This is wonderfully twisted.
Beautiful, thoughtful art combined with a spectacularly astute perspective makes this book a must read.
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