The Perry Bible Fellowship or PBF comics have been around longer than some of you have been alive. The dark and ingenious ideas of Nicholas Gurewitch have been shaking the world for two decades. What started as a university newspaper comic strip has become one of the internet's most beloved webcomics packed with whimsical, dark, and unexpected humor.
On January 23th, The Perry Bible Fellowship celebrated its 20-year anniversary since the first comic was created and prepared a treat for the readers. To mark the occasion, PBF is collaborating with other great comic artists to create 20 comics, so you might recognize your favorite artists' style. This was exciting news to lifelong fans of The Perry Bible Fellowship because that meant a regular dose of grim and absurd comedy after Gurewitch cut back on the production of weekly comics in 2008 and posted new comics infrequently.
Scroll down to see new comics by the legendary Perry Bible Fellowship, and if you are still craving more, check out two previous posts on Bored Panda here and here.
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aw dude, that is so cool, like hey, that guy is taking pics of my children and you shoot a snake at him lol
now thats a real suger da- forgett it cuz my puns suck
By collaborating with other comic artists, Nicholas Gurewitch uses his platform with 344k Instagram followers and over 149k Facebook followers to celebrate other great artists out there. In fact, some of the best, not that they need more exposure. Wait till you see what artists The Perry Bible Fellowship has crossed paths with to create fresh crossover comics. Spoiler alert: you'll find well-known artists in the webcomics universe such as Dinos And Comics, Poorly Drawn Lines, Shen Comix, theoatmeal, The RedDot Comic, Swords Comic, and Hot Paper comics, just to name a few. Stalk PBF's accounts for the newest collaborations, and you might discover your new favorite webcomic!
The Verge asked Gurewitch what he thinks of the new generation of comics: "I like the way webcomics are moving in some ways. I really like Nathan Pyle’s comic, and Alex Norris’ comic. They have a very similar color palette. I think I like this movement toward a gentler, sweeter, more forthright production. Maybe it’s the direction we’re going in because life is getting more scary. Sometimes I feel bad doing scary and sad comics nowadays because I’m like, 'Holy s***, people probably get enough of this.'"
It looks so happy too like, “oh finally a child understands what we actually are her for”
Orangutans are very tricky animals, especially when it comes to keeping a second set of books...
The Perry Bible Fellowship is well known for dark, twisted endings that are often NSFW, could make you feel guilty for laughing, and might take a minute to figure out. He puts his surreal, humorous spin on serious and very real topics such as racism, mental health, death, religion, animal cruelty, and science, as well as simply ridiculous and out-of-the-box topics.
On the Perry Bible Fellowship's official Facebook page, the artist quotes world-class artists talking about his work:
"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 (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 Ultimate X-Men).
So don't forget to leave your review in the comments, too!
The man and kid are stuck on an island. The kid finds a genie lamp, which could most likely get them out of there if wished upon, except the Genie speaks a foreign language. Then the shitty racist dad slaps the Genie and refuses his help only because the Genie speaks Arabic.
Load More Replies...As I am not the brightest bulb in the box, would someone, please, explain what is going on in this?
i know arabic so that says i command you sir, but that doesn't make sense but ok, and trumper is on island lol
It says "Amrak ya Sidi" short for "Taht amrak ya Sidi": meaning "Under your command, Master" if that helps.
Load More Replies...Speaking of feedback, The Perry Bible Fellowship's edgy and morbid humor has caused controversy over the years. In an interview with ComicMix in 2008, Gurewitch said:
"It’s funny that the intent or intended personality in a work can somehow be lost, but people are responding to something and they’re entitled to take whatever perspective they want on it. But I do find it funny that a lot of people think a comic is simply 'f***ed up' and has no thought put into it, when personally, whenever I enjoy one of my comics, I can see something I’ve been thinking about in the comic, or something on my mind or one of my friends’ minds. When I come up with a strip like that, it has a deep relevance beneath the simple gag that’s on paper. I always find the comics more deeply relevant than they seem to the naked eye."
wow, at first i was like, awww, then i was like, aw soot dude, that guy is so mean
The Perry Bible Fellowship doesn't have a consistent topic, recurring characters, or style. In a 2005 interview with The Guardian, he said his early influences are The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes.
"I try to dip into whatever style might help the joke come across best. I'll work as much as I can on the comic up until the deadline. If given a month to complete a comic, I'll use all that up. The fact is there are comics in my archives that I would like to go back and try new things with."
i think what Paul says could be right, but my interpretation was this: the person in the middle is very opinionated and hates the purple stripe thing. but by yelling about it and going on the offense for no reason, they sort of invalidate their opinion and become unlikable in the other two's eyes. this causes the other two to get a bit defensive and think "middle person is rude and hates purple stripes, so maybe purple stripes is actually a good thing?"
All of the colors are DEEPLY held beliefs. So the stripes can't be annoyance or laziness
Load More Replies...Folks, their heads are pie charts. The colors represent their beliefs. The person in the middle objects to the belief represented by the black/white stripes. As they continue to berate the person on the right, the rightmost person becomes increasingly entrenched in the black/white belief. By the end of it, the person on the *left* is so irritated with the middle person's lecturing that they, too, now find some merit in the black/white belief.
I saw it as the left side of the spectrum, having two parts, democrat liberals and progressive. That's the orange and yellow; but it could be of any set of opinions with 3 distinctions. The guy on the right is a liberal, but on one issue they see it from the conservative opinion, but consider themselves liberal. The more authoritarian part of the left won't consider other views, on even peripheral issues, and the more they wave their banner and berate differing opinions as racist, not only does the guy on the right increase his opposition to the left, it also can become a tiny wedge in fellow people from the strict left that still want to be open to hearing differing opinions. And by then hearing other views, come to reject their previous political beliefs.
So what I think is that the orange is strictness, yellow is obedience (or vice versa), and purple stripe is laziness/annoyed/overwhelmed. Better?
Load More Replies...Now I am gonna have to further investigate the activities of ever-growing plecostomus in my tank. I had blamed the kids.
We're going to need two now...he can't keep up anymore but it's not really bad. Still needs some cleaning, though. By the way-LOL!
Load More Replies...me:*bust in with a sword for fish* SUPRISE M***A FUKAS! GUESS WHAT! IM GONNA HAVE FISH STICKS FOR DINNER
As mentioned before, in 2008, Nicholas Gurewitch has shifted his focus from weekly comics toward film and TV, saying, "I feel I owe it to myself and the Perry Bible Fellowship not to turn a joyful diversion into a long career." In an interview with The Verge, he said that putting his cartoonist's career on pause has actually helped his comics too:
"Doing the 1,2,3,4 comic, they had the same exact structure every time. And since I’ve been doing them just for the internet, I found that my comics can sprawl and have so many more panels than normal, and do a lot of things that they used to not be able to do."
Come on get it right. Boom boom boom lets go back to my room, so we can do it all night; and you can make me feel right
Load More Replies...Well, We're in trouble - the climate is changing, the earth is spouting fire, and we all have brains the size of a walnut.
COVID-19 was just the beginning of Nature unleashing Her wrath on humanity. (Cue "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater Revival)
Load More Replies...For a second I thought the guy with the beard was either Lincoln or Jigen
In 2020, all The Perry Bible Fellowship's comics from the internet's golden age between 2004 and 2007 were published in a nostalgic collection, The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack’s 10th-anniversary edition. He also published a Kickstarter for the book called "Notes on a Case of Melancholia, Or: A Little Death" which pays homage to the legendary Edward Gorey
If you need to sell your soul just for a puppy, If your god can see this and turns not so happy, Change your belief, god and everything that's not right, But don't change your hobbies better hold it tight
XD when h came out the costume or whateve he’s freaking naked and then the sheep shoot him XD
i love the style in this one, it's so cute and different! (especially the galaxy which is super pretty)
That's how the yarn planet kind grew extinct. Then the highly advanced alien cat civilization got bored, colonized Earth, enslaved the human primitives and they have ruled the place ever since.
Looks as though centaurs have some of the same problems as humans do.
13 is like 35 years old in horse years though. Maybe they think she's too old.
Kinda makes me wonder, do centaurs age in horse years or human years?
Load More Replies...Almost! The white square should be in the bottom-right corner. This one has black which will switch the king and queen positions for both players.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who read that in the voice of Patrick?? Lol
I have a cracked lip, and trying not to smile because of this, but this made me smile anyways, even though it hurt.
Hope you have lip balm, and a really good kind.
Load More Replies...They look like naked mole rats, who have a quite interesting family structure.
Load More Replies...Ok, really sorry if this bothers you or sounds like I'm bragging, but when my mother was a teenager, her family bought the horse from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie! She says it turns out the horse was a huge diva and never listened to commands lol.
He loost his wife/girlfrend/mom (looks at photos) and colour of the pencil reminds him about hair colour of a person who died
Load More Replies...well hes crying maybe she left him or died so he had pic so then saw the crayon
comics in color? idk if this is a thing somewhere but where i live its all black and white
I still subscribe to two newspapers and the comics are a big reason
Load More Replies...If I knew the world was about to end I'd go to my favorite watering hole and drink lots of beer so I'd go out happy.
A modern smartphone is the unholy bastard-child of all preceding personal technology.
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Is it just my dirty mind or does the red dude interact with the blue space too?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I just learned how to teach children not to pick up bird's eggs when found in nests etc.
You can see all three. There's a head, legs, and an arm
Load More Replies...When I was in kindergarten, the popular explanation for rain was "God pees on us" :D
Load More Replies...Omg you have the same name as me!!!
Load More Replies...There was a whale ancestor that returned to land for a while, scientists theorize it looked like a scale-less crocodile of sorts going by the fossils, I've seen a replica skull in a museum and it was terrifying.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-legs.html
Load More Replies..."We adapted to leave the land for the sea because of all the sh*t happening there, not gonna go back now it's even worse"
the kid is oblivious to what has been happening. /Wooooosh
Load More Replies...the surgeons are playing tic tac toe on one of his bones. that's why he keeps getting transferred back and forth, even though his surgery probably should have been over a long time ago
Load More Replies...Mr scoop doesn't wish to see happiness, he wishes to see pain
okay this was the original? it's really not that bad, and i get some stuff but i don't know why they censored "kill us all" pauh4cyiyjd61.png
Indeed - why? Pourquois? Warum? Censoring a--hole and the bare a*se is one thing, but "kill us all"?
Load More Replies...Ma’am? You have a little something in your throat... yes, I know... sorry about that... almost there.... and look! I’ve extracted it. A 48 year old spirit of a mole rat. Now off you go, that’ll be payment at the front desk.
Or a cat. Or any animal that is naturally a carnivore or even omnivore
Load More Replies...I want to cry from this......like he looks like he's gonna cry when he is "caught" but in the last panel, he is trying to do what she wants but still looks like he's gonna cry.
b-but...nooooooooo...i wants... nope not now...hmmm...i just go and cwy i guwss...(。•́︿•̀。)
A vegan woman did this to her rare bread of domesticated wild cat, or dog ( I forget the species )- the poor thing literally starved to death iirc. People are dumb.
I feel bad for Coolidge. I don't care if he's a bug, I love him anyways
The fairy wikipedia page says nothing about murisexuality
Load More Replies...Just warming up before moving on to Captain Hook...
Load More Replies...Stuck in a rainbow bubble forever? Seems like a deep metaphor about life
i found the first part and yeah. i can definitely see why BP didn't include it though PBF266-Caught.png
well...i'm not sure how to explain this, but it seems to be voluntary
Load More Replies...YES! It must hurt, but pixis actually hate sugar, because they always have to count out every grain of it, no mater what.(according to my mythology book)
Load More Replies...oh god no.... I KNEW EXPLOSM WOULD DO SOMETHING INAPPROPRIATE!
Load More Replies...That is Cyanide and Happiness, not Perry Bible. Still great strip.
No wonder he’s sad...technically Christians aren’t allowed to eat crustaceans ;)
Oh come on. You would've worked out in the end. It happens to a lot of Christian-Jew relationships.
Christopher Nolan new project. Astronaught on a simple mission in low orbit survive a cataclysmic storm that kills every person on earth. Now they are stumped at what to do next. Plot twist there are some surviving humans that they find after managing to manuaver a landing back
Instead of dying in nuclear fire at home, they will just suffocate there and die alone on this sterile boulder.
I couldn't, even with my glasses...no patience. This gives me a headache!
Load More Replies...for any one wondering "yes" you can finish the maze (only took me like 1 hour to figure that out -_-)
Here it is, without the ridiculously prudish censorship. Perry-Bibl...1-jpeg.jpg
Thank you. The image is not that graphic, and are children, and the faint of heart known for following Bored Panda?
Load More Replies...Why do they even post it if they're going to needlessly censor most of it?
once more boom boom boom boom i want you in my room lets
Load More Replies...pls don't tell me you don't understand it.
Load More Replies...I love these comics. I’m always checking his site waiting a for new ones.
They started out fine, and they just got more- I can't even describe the pain.
Load More Replies...Quite a lot of dumb-dumbs who don't get dark humour, even when the joke is painfully obvious. I weep for humanity and it's sinking IQ level...
I love these comics. I’m always checking his site waiting a for new ones.
They started out fine, and they just got more- I can't even describe the pain.
Load More Replies...Quite a lot of dumb-dumbs who don't get dark humour, even when the joke is painfully obvious. I weep for humanity and it's sinking IQ level...
