The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories | Nicholas Gurewitch | Treat

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	The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories Nicholas Gurewitch Dark Horse Comics, 2007 - 96 pages average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A dark, hilarious, and beautiful celebration

It's so nice to be able to hold these beautifully drawn cartoons in your hands; to have these lavishly illustrated beauties finally printed on quality paper. I stumbled on PBF from the XKCD Web site, and haven't been the same since. Though I have read most of these cartoons online, they still had me laughing out loud. And as dark and twisted as these cartoons are, some of the artwork is really wonderful. I love that the author uses so many cartooning styles -- they set moods, create contexts, and make the strips even funnier. While some of them can be racy or downright sick at times, they often poigniantly touch on vulnerabilities universal to the human experience.

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Gurewitch perhaps is representative of the future of the comic strip. His comics are aware of their form and their place in the history of the strip, but reject the simplification seen in a lot of newspaper comics (simplified for time constraints and to appear bold and graphic despite the cheap printing process). The book is amazing even just for how unbelievably meticulously wrought every single work is, but even more amazing for how painfully funny it is. His dark humor often makes you feel like a participant in some horrific crime. This book will surely be a comic classic.. even the quality of the binding and cover are made with a nostalgic, '80s or '90s cheap board game feel.

The comics are mixed chronologically in a way that makes for a dynamic visual presentation, but that sometimes gives the feeling that this is the only PBF book that will ever be made. This book is really not a "comprehensive" PBF, because Gurewitch is still making comics that are even more impressive than some of the ones included in this book. I wish this book had more in it (text, comics), but I am really satisfied with it as a whole. It belongs in the library of every lover of comics.

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Even better than reading PBF online

As addictive and wonderful as Perry Bible Fellowship is on the internet, reading it in this book is even better. The artwork looks beautiful in print, and although there aren't a lot of new comics, I could read this book over and over again without getting tired of it. Awesome work!

The best comic strip ever! and this book is a great collection

I really enjoyed spending hours my time scrolling through all the comics on the PBF website, laughing out loud, but now its so much easier to go through the strips and laugh and show them to friends and see their delight. I would recommend ordering a whole bunch and placing them throughout the house, so that you're never too far away from a good intelligent laugh.

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Thank You.

Thank you, Nicholas, for providing an awesome collection of your strips. I bought two so that my girlfriend has to read her own dang copy. Collect this book now!
Dan the drama teacher.

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