Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209660 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Dark and hilarious
The Perry Bible Fellowship has long been one of my favourite online comics. The author has a brilliantly twisted sense of humour and a good sense of style. PBF is PBF, even though the illustrations vary a lot between strips, as Gurewitch experiments with different styles and techniques.

This book compiles almost hundred pages worth of strips: not all of them, but most. Few of my personal favourites are missing, yet I'm quite satisfied with the collection. There's some material that's previously unpublished, but it's nothing really interesting. So, if you've already read everything that's on the web site and don't want to buy stuff you've already read, this book offers very little. However, I'm rather glad to have it on my bookshelves.

If you've never heard of Perry Bible Fellowship, I envy you: you have a world of sickly sweet pleasure to explore. Check the web site or buy the book: whichever you do, you won't be disappointed.

Move over The Far Side...welcome to The Dark Side!
In Gary Larson's The Prehistory of the Far Side, he revealed some cartoons that had never been syndicated or had received loads and loads of complaints. Things have moved on a bit since then, I can tell you!

The Perry Bible Fellowship (no idea what that means) is sick, dark and twisted...but also hilarious. If The League of Gentlemen were available in comic strip form, it might well resemble this: Willy Wonka is running an abattoir, rather than a chocolate factory; 'Will you marry me?' is spelled out using the bodies of aircrash victims; a camera inside a Tunnel of Love provides filthy souvenir snaps...and that's just a taste.

If you like your humour pitch-black and get impatient between its weekly appearances in The Guardian, this collection is just for you.

Brilliant
This is brilliant collection. Gurewitch is a fantastic artist and obviously skilled in a number of different styles. Some of the strips are simplistic and childlike to the point where a ten-thumbed idiot like me could draw them. Others are as meticulously detailed and vidid as the work of the great Robert Crumb. All are brilliant in their own way. Whatever style Gurewitch adopts, it seems the perfect choice for the material - he obviously has a keen sense for the marriage of content and form.

But what of the content? In short, it's hilarious. The humour is misanthropic, dark and twisted but it is never cheap. With some controversial comic artists, like Dagsson and Max Canning, the controversial nature of their work can seem a bit limited and superficial; often there seems to be little beyond an intention to be politically incorrect and offend people. Gurewitch's humour is jet-black but there is always intelligence, wit and genuinely comic ideas in his work. Many of the strips in this book are funny in a way that is timeless. "The Adventures of the Man With No Penis" had me literally rolling on the floor in fits of laughter, as did several others.

To speak more of this book would be to ruin it. Just go out buy it. This Gurewitch chap is a genius.