The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition)
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Publisher Description
Celebrate 10 years of Perry Bible Fellowship with this comprehensive collection of PBF comics, sketches, and more! Collects every Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip released between 2004 and 2007 including previously unseen comics and Nicholas Gurewitch's PBF sketch book.
This newly formatted Almanack features every PBF comic strip which ran in alternative newspapers between 2004 and 2007--and simultaneously exploded online during the internet's golden age! In commemoration of 10 years since its initial release, this Almanack also contains content that is unavailable anywhere else, including previously undiscovered PBF comics from the era and numerous sketches for comics that never came to be.
Master the dark arts of Unicorn Power! Resurrect the great lord Zuthulu that you may do his bidding (and serve him brownies). Go on an adventure and READ this book! This Ignatz, Harvey, and Eisner-winning comic strip is "the best thing to happen to cartooning since Calvin and Hobbes." --(Matt Inman, The Oatmeal)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For more than 20 years, various cartoonists have jostled for the title of "spiritual heir to Gary Larson," the famously weird creator of the groundbreaking strip The Far Side. Web cartoonist Gurewitch is a solid contender for the title. His preferred subject matter certainly tracks Larson: murderous mimes, vengeful T. Rexes and adulterous rolls of coins all make appearances. Gurewitch also enjoys subverting a number of hackneyed cartoon tropes, including cuckolded husbands, mischievous voyeurs and confused Grim Reapers. But it is his exquisite sense of timing that sets him apart as a budding comic genius. Gurewitch has mastered the "soaker," the joke that stays with the reader for several minutes before finally sinking in, making it all the funnier as a result. As hard as the soaker is to pull off consistently, Gurewitch's timing and supreme confidence in refusing to telegraph punch lines, allows him to hit the mark almost every time. It's particularly instructive to read the appendix "Lost Strips" to see the still funny but broader strips that did not make the cut. He alternates between a number of art styles all gorgeous; his selection is always in service to the joke. Subtle, sly and deeply, deeply weird, The Perry Bible Fellowship is one of the best comics out there.
