The Perry Bible Fellowship

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The Perry Bible Fellowship

Author(s)	Nicholas Gurewitch
Website	pbfcomics.com
Update schedule	Wednesdays
Launch date	2001

The Perry Bible Fellowship (or PBF) is a webcomic by Nicholas Gurewitch. It originated in the Syracuse University newspaper The Daily Orange. The comics are usually three or four panels long, and are generally characterized by the juxtaposition of whimsical childlike imagery or fantasy with extremely morbid, absurdist humor. Common themes include religion, sexuality, war, science fiction, suicide, irony and death.

1 Comic
- 1.1 Content
- 1.2 Publishing
2 Author, Nicholas Gurewitch
3 New book
4 References
5 External links
- 5.1 Nicholas Gurewitch

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Despite the potentially offensive content in many strips, the comic rarely receives complaints, or its author hate-mail. Nicholas Gurewitch attributes this to people who dislike the comic not wishing to share their feelings with him.^[1]

PBF uses varying artistic styles. While some comics may feature simplistic human figures with little more than a mouth and eyes for a face, the next may be a gorgeously colored and meticulously detailed strip. Sometimes, the artistic style changes within the strip itself. A recurring feature of the strip is human figures that are drawn with some detail and realism, other than the heads which are reminiscent of smiley faces. In a strip parodying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the comic's artwork resembled that of Quentin Blake [1], while another strip was a take-off on the macabre crosshatch style of Edward Gorey [2]. Another strip was created in a "sprite comic"-style, using (edited) graphics from NES video game Punch-Out!! [3]

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PBF is updated only once per week (originally on Sundays to correspond with its "Biblical" title, but now on Wednesdays), and has a devoted following. It appears in around a dozen newspapers, including the New York Press, The Chicago Reader and The Guardian. PBF also appears in Maxim magazine. One of its comics, Weeaboo, became a Wordfilter for 'wapanese' on the imageboard 4chan; it has since caught on as a synonym for Japanophile.

On August 1, 2006, after several months on a temporary site managed by Cheston Gasik, the comic moved to its permanent Internet home at pbfcomics.com.

[edit] Author, Nicholas Gurewitch

Nicholas Gurewitch was born March 9, 1982 in New York, and is currently based in Manchester, New York. He attended Syracuse University, where his comic strip was first published.

[edit] New book

In response to questions as to why he has shortened the archive, Gurewitch has hinted that there will be a Perry Bible Fellowship book to come out soon. Little else is known regarding the publication.

In addition, material from The Perry Bible Fellowship was included in Ted Rall's Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, along with other webcomics such as Cat and Girl, Dinosaur Comics, Diesel Sweeties, and Fetus-X.