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

Dark Horse Comics is proud to present The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories by acclaimed cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch.

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.

"Even the most benevolent impulse is sure to lead to a planet in ruins in this debut collection of Gurewitch's popular Web comic, The Perry Bible Fellowship. The dark, surreal humor is often compared to The Far Side but has an even more brutal and fatalistic sense of humor. Lavishly colored, the art switches among detailed depictions of comedy staples like sloths and dinosaurs to an empty-faced cast of doomed stick figure dreamers. Gurewitch's true strength is in expertly using the four-panel comic strip structure to suggest entire storylines and their bleak payoffs. In one, a man and woman stand in a field full of dead bodies, and the woman reacts angrily when she discovers the secret revealed in the final panel: the touching message 'Will you marry me?' written on a hillside with the bodies. Similar themes of pop culture tropes played out to the point of disaster abound: aliens decide to kill the Earth instead of a planet of cute puppies, heaven is found to be not so cool when God forbids billiards, and so on. But as usual, attempting to analyze the humor defeats the purpose — Gurewitch's strips are destined to be refrigerator door classics in the very near future." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

"A work of sheer brilliance." Jim Woodring, author of Frank

"PBF is hilarious and f$#@ed-up in a very sublime way." Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics

"Nicholas Gurewitch packs so many ingenious ideas — and so much dark, twisted humor — into three panels, they just about burst. The Perry Bible Fellowship is one of the flat-out funniest comic strips of all time." Ruben Bolling, author of Tom the Dancing Bug

"I've been reading this guy since his first strip in The Guardian and he's the best new cartoonist since Bill Watterson. This is the reason paper was invented. Give him your money now." Mark Millar

"The Perry Bible Fellowship is what Bil Keane, Jim Davis, and the guy who draws Marmaduke would see if they closed their eyes and rubbed them with their fists. It is absurdist, comic fireworks, and I can't get enough of it." Sam Means, The Daily Show

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.