The Perry Bible Fellowship

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The Perry Bible Fellowship

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

The Perry Bible Fellowship (or PBF) is a newspaper comic strip and 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, violence, and death.

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[edit] Content

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] The content has been compared to Gary Larson's Far Side because of PBF's sometimes demented humor.[2]

[edit] Art

The art in PBF varies constantly. While some comics feature simplistic human figures with little more than a mouth and eyes for a face, other strips are gorgeously colored and meticulously detailed. Sometimes, the artistic style changes within the strip itself. A recurring feature of the strip are simplistically-drawn human figures exhibiting little detail or realism, and heads reminiscent of smiley faces. In a strip parodying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the comic's artwork resembled that of Quentin Blake[3], while another strip was a take-off on the macabre crosshatch style of Edward Gorey[4]. Another strip was created using pixel art[3], based on the NES video game Punch-Out!! [5]

[edit] Awards

Gurewitch has received multiple major awards for The Perry Bible Fellowship. He won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic in 2005 [4] and 2006[5], and the Web Cartoonist's Choice Award for outstanding comic in 2006 and 2007. In total, PBF has received eight awards in various categories over the history of the awards.[6]

[edit] Publishing

PBF is updated only once per week (originally on Sundays to correspond with its "Biblical" title, but now on Wednesdays). Gurewitch has said that the comic is updated as infrequently as it is because of the labor that the art entails.[7] It appears in around a dozen newspapers, including the New York Press, The Chicago Reader and The Guardian. PBF also appears in Maxim and ION Magazine.[8]

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] Title

The comic received its title, taken from the name of a church in Maine, in its Daily Orange incarnation. [9]

[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 he studied film and where his comic strip was first published in The Daily Orange. Besides PBF, he worked on developing a program called Daisy Garden Story Time with Comedy Central, though the program was not produced. [10]

[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, to be released by Dark Horse Comics[6]. According to an interview on BrooWaha Los Angeles[7], the book is due to come out in August 2007.

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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tim Dowling. "Welcome to the Fellowship". The Guardian, September 30, 2005.
  2. ^ "Associated Content's exclusive interview with Gurewitch" Associated Content, March 3, 2007.
  3. ^ Luke McKenzie. ""Webcomics!". "A Modest Proposal", December 2006.
  4. ^ [1] 2005 Ignatz Award Results
  5. ^ [2] 2006 Ignatz Award Results
  6. ^ Web Cartoonist Choice Awards
  7. ^ "Associated Content's exclusive interview with Gurewitch" Associated Content, March 3, 2007.
  8. ^ "Q&A with Nicholas Gurewitch" The Daily Orange, January 19, 2007.
  9. ^ "Interview: Nicholas Gurewitch Pt. 1 (of 2)" Daily Crosshatch, February 27, 2007.
  10. ^ "Interview: Nicholas Gurewitch Pt. 1 (of 2)" Daily Crosshatch, February 27, 2007.

[edit] External links

[edit] Nicholas Gurewitch

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