Product Description

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).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4744 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-11
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

I shouldn't laugh, but...
Perry Bible Fellowship is an online comic strip that features gorgeous artwork and a unique sense of humour. Bizarre, frequently disturbing and often just plain silly, it's not a million miles from The Far Side, but with a jet-black streak that somehow manages to elicit sympathy for the characters even while you're laughing. Despite the colourful drawings and alluring cover this is not a book for kids.

The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack is far superior to previous PBF publication 'The Trial of Colonel Sweeto' as it doesn't just have all the comics found in that edition, but every strip ever published, plus extras including an interview with the creator and comics that have never previously been available.

This alone should be enough to tempt any PBF fan, but it's also worth noting that this gorgeous hardback is the kind of thing you'll be happy to have on display in the living room. They could have packed two or more strips together, but each comic is enlarged and given its own page. This book is surprisingly big, the paper from good quality stock and it has a reassuring weight to it, which make its relatively low price a pleasant surprise.

If you've never experienced PBF before and enjoy dark, absurd humour then you're in for a treat. Don't read it online first, just buy this book.

All the PBF you can need
This book technically contains all the PBF done, including some never-published strips and personal comments and an interview. All of this is packed in a nicely produced book with a colourful hard cover and a generous size.

I personally love the style of these strips, and would have rated it 5 stars. The reason for not doing so is that I love the strips so much that I had previously (when it appeared) bought the previous book (Trial of...). Lovely book too, but the differences in content between the too are rather minimal. More pages? Yes, but now you have one bigger strip per page. Luckily this book is not too expensive.

So, go for it if you don't have the previous book!

unnecessary
If you already own "The Perry Bible Fellowship: Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories", there's not much need for this one. Yes, it has a few other works and samples in progress, but you're better off having a quick browse of it at the book store than weighing your shelf beyond the best already contained in Colonel Sweeto.