The Perry Bible Fellowship is the perfect middle between the whimsical and the dark humor. And it has been since 2001 when its creator Nicholas Gurewitch drew the first dark comics. Nicholas describes his style as "the clarity of obscurity," and his work is a real treat to all the twisted humor aficionados.
Usually consisting of three or four panels, the webcomics have originated in the Syracuse University newspaper The Daily Orange. The darkly funny drawings tackle difficult topics head-on, and some of the most common themes include irony, religion, sexuality, war, science fiction, suicide, violence, and death.
"Sometimes I look at my work and think that it shows the idealism of my Dad colliding with the realism of my Mom," Gurewitch told Things In Squares. "Or, I see the idealism of my Mom colliding with the realism of my Dad. The idea of the "real" colliding with the “ideal” in these plot twists have been suggested to me by many artists."
Now, scroll down below to feed your weird sense of humor with these superbly cool drawings by Nicholas!
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I thought the clouds were pooping at first, but I like this ending better.
Erm so the LGBT(LMNOPQ...) community is going to die f*****g in a hole. Welp there are worse ways to go. I'll die trying that fer damn sure.
Suddenly Its now one of the ever growing number of creatures that kill for fun. 😞
RIP GRAMPS. DIED THE NIGHT WHEN HIS GRANCHILD PRAYED FOR HIM. Lol. =)
I think things are a little evened out because even though Jesus is just a person, he gets a one time revive during the fight.
Load More Replies...Enjoy every new day like there is no tomorrow, because the 'countdown' has already begun. 😉
i thought of trying that, then i leave it for tomorrow
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who tried to see the hidden picture in the first one? Lol
OK I have the straight jacket who wants to help and where is that damn dolphin?
Did you ever notice that the name Santa is an anagram for “Satan”? Coincidence?
Everyone at this deli is staring at me because of how hard I laughed out loud at this one.
Just goes to show you that as a driving force in nature, sex is hard to beat. 😉
Now you'll have a stepbrother who will torture you daily .. you can thank your dad for that.
Great, now I wonder what would happen if you crossed a unicorn with a donkey.
Why is she just a board? Why isn't she a human body with a board head?
he wanted to 'hammer' her but found out that another man was also 'screwing' her
I thought the cloud was coming out of the stork's butt at first xD
Being at a nude beach is like the definition of a nightmare for me.
She's about to discover that the good doctor does everything by the numbers. 😉
Can't help but notice if there's a hint of sex in the joke, you can't help but make a lame comment ... Please tell me you're not married so I can sleep comfortably knowing some poor woman is not being exposed to your nonsense on a daily basis.
Load More Replies...If someone ever called me gay as an insult, I'd thank them and walk off and gossip with my LGBTQ+ friends.
And that's the reason why you should never judge someone, defending his own property.
You can actually starve on rabbit because it's so lean. Look up "protein poisoning" or "rabbit starvation".
Load More Replies...If Benjamin were smart, he'd have killed the rabbits and made stew! Jeez.
Oops! Beach.exe has stopped responding. Would you like to close the program?
Just be glad that the big ocean blue didn't become the big ocean blue-screen!
And yet, they (and everyone in the comments) seem completely unbothered by the fact that their reality is a computer construct, and one apparently prone to occasional crashes. The Matrix was horrifying enough without the possibility that you go round to your grandmothers house, only to find she died when she went to the bathroom and it failed to properly render in time, dropping her through the ground into nothingness.
I like how the kid on the left (I guess technically right) is kicking the only can on the sand
Last time I checked religions were just religions. Perhaps you were trying to insult the people that follow them instead?
Load More Replies...then there are people coming after to the cartoonist 😁
Load More Replies...Many people *think* all divorces cause serious problems. In reality, some divorces solve serious problems. (not an advocate for divorce in general, but it's a grand solution often enough)
Load More Replies...P.S. Am I the only one who thinks that the resemblance between this boy and Dudley Dursley is striking?
Load More Replies...This is stark and jarring! Every time I see a stupid lill food fight scene in a movie, my mind always thinks of all the wastage!
It's not true love if you regret it so technically the well didn't grant his wish.
"hey doesn't the grass on the other side of this hill look a bit greener to you?"
...because no one suspects the butterfly mwhahaha
Load More Replies...Bart: If it helps, I believe that after you die, you come back as whatever you want. I'll be a butterfly. Lisa: How come? Bart: Because nobody ever suspects the butterfly. (evil laugh) (we see the burnt down school) Skinner: I didn't burn down the school. It was the butterfly, I tell you, the butterfly! Wiggum: He's crazy, boys. Get the taser. (little Bart butterfly holds a gas can and laughs) -2F32 'Round Springfield
True, but we've got Jared Padalecki. He is the master of puppy dog eyes! Also there's Misha Collins.
Load More Replies...Pupu is a bunny in finnish, so it's really a bunnylon, pupulon sounds cute af!
And it looks like we have a self-destructive relationship with Mother Earth. There will be a rude awakening to the realization that there will never be a fathership taking us to planet Earth 2.0.
Load More Replies...Now just imagine all the dirty comments that would've been born if they'd invented extendable eyes... dark ._.
Load More Replies...that doll is putting thread so that he could let it slide into the room of his wife ;P
he unstitches his button eyes to get it through the cracks and look at the naked doll on the lower floor.
Thought this was a Brazilian slang, didn't know there was an English equivalent. Cute dog, btw
Load More Replies...I'm getting confused by your abundant comments in which you use these winky emojis as if you're being clever but you're just saying what happens in the comic...
Load More Replies...You forget, Wolverine has a heightened sense of smell, he would know whose fur that belong to.
Logan would have smelled who the hair belongs to. He might even know who's been on the room during the moment he stepped in. (I don't go to parties so don't use the "you must be fun at parties" joke)
Just not his forte. I've seen a real naked man before, but every one I try to draw looks like a woman
Load More Replies...I actaully feel bad for the kid. The kid above is TOTALLY me, but I have really good grades. I think that it's wrong for the mother to change her son's personallity.
The problem is, very few musicians make it big. If you want to pursue a career in music, it's a good idea to at least have something to fall back on if you don't make it.
Load More Replies...Wow... this one seems the darkest to me and just a painful depiction of a sad reality... not many people are lucky enough to have a unique dream or to be able to think of something that hasn't already been thought of...
The kid caught a severed head at the Colosseum like someone might catch a fly ball in modern baseball.
Load More Replies...this happened to me one time i was falling then I saw my body sleeping and once I landed I woke up!
Just let the funny people do their thing and stop trying to ride coattails ...
Load More Replies...I like how all the other kids are just sitting there as if this is normal. Turns out they have gone through 12 teachers who asked this question 🤣
I would aregue the opposite. Molars have more heft and overall surface area.
Load More Replies...Dad in second panel: I lost 20$ but at least he’s happy. Dad in last panel: @*#(
From the look of it, the one holding a plate on the 1st drawing suicided (seems like the impact of the bullet on his forehead)
they are going to become male butterflies and get with the female butterflies
Load More Replies...She should invest into modern style mirror. It is well known scientific fact that vampires were not seen in old-type mirrors who had a layer of silver behind the glass to make it reflective. Silver is known of its evil-filtering properties. On the other hand modern mirrors have a layer of aluminium, much more vampire friendly.
Welp you could say they've been BONED ahahahahaha it's funny and original LAUGH
What am i supposed to do in here? Can i go away once i've eaten them?
Load More Replies...Lion: "hello sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?
He will never have friends and will be bullied for being dangerous without being its fault.
If you look closely at rokie’s hand in the 2nd panel you see him getting poked
That doesn't mean you can't laugh. It's just a birthday. Those kids probably look back and laugh. It's totally not a big deal. Lots of cultures don't even care about birthdays.
Load More Replies..."Birthday - and other ways to teach your kids materialism and selfishness" could be a bestseller.
Then just press the upvote button. These aren't permanent votes.
Load More Replies...Maybe he's another brother or cousin of Slenderman's?
Load More Replies...I am so glad it went that way, the sorrow on the Dads face about the watch was so intense
dunno why you were downvotes, I agree with you
Load More Replies..."can't catch me, i'm the more muscular, athletic, and more attractive gingerbread man!!"
Well, the real reason why they tell you that you shouldn't look for the rainbow's end. ;)
1. The only tree for miles! 2. The one with the flowers, far right. 3. What's the reporter saying, really? Bottom right.
One day in elementary school my catholic teacher was explaining that tremors were caused by god moving the earth. I raised my hand and said it was actually because of the tectonic plaques and went on explaining it. She put me bad grades for the rest of the course.
I went to a catholic school and learned Darwin's evolution. Teachers (most of them priests or nuns) explained Creationism should be treated like a parable, not a cold, hard fact.
Load More Replies...I'm so tired that I read "beefed" as "bee-fed" and I was confused for a minute.
I wished I saw this when I was teaching sixth grade science! They would of loved it.
I went to a Catholic schòl too. We had a very good education for a time when it wasn't thoughtvreally necessary fir gurks to kearn science and maths.
What I understand is that they sent him back and forth doing operations because they were playing tic tac toe on his bones.
Load More Replies..."We will have to eat each other eventually but let's enjoy this view in the meantime"
It is like swapping weird video with porn when your mom come. Easy to explain.
Whenever I open jars for my girlfriend, I always say "This is why you keep me around, isn't it?".
Did anyone else notice that the curtains are open in the last panel?
That guy's pretty selfish, wanting his family to die prematurely just because he wants to see them.
Me too :-(. I have a bunch of far side comics that I'm constantly rereading
Load More Replies...I think that Pete was the first and the last student to ever misbehave in this class.
Im sure there's more than a few teachers who would love to chew out a particuarly difficult student in this manner
"But while he was away i made this important discover, tell the Nobel prize academy!"
Load More Replies...Hens lay eggs regardless of them having mated. Is this implying that every egg is supposed to be fertile?
They are probably young and don't realize this yet.
Load More Replies...Those are tortoises! Turtles have different limbs. Y do so many ppl get them mixed up 🤔
Creeper reminded me of my crazy ex. And people say pot-heads are calm. Don't know him
Just imagine what he'd be like without the weed then...
Load More Replies...My ex was highway patrol. I can't begin to tell you how many times I was pulled over.
I've seen a movie with a similar plot, where abusive husband who was a cop used police resources to find his escaped wife and even sent out her photo with 'murder suspect' note with it xD
If he just wants a hug, why are there bullet holes in the car?
Interesting, but disappointing the contributions of the Soviet Union and China are overlooked..
this one is actually brilliant, it is exactly what we do now with ancient cultures
Centuries later people claim to know "facts" about what went on as if they're gospel. We struggle with what is and isn't accurate with what happened this morning yet alone a thousand years before the printing press.
Load More Replies...Yep. I was thinking the same thing. Definitely worth it.
Load More Replies...Me after staying 2 seconds there: Congratulations! You gained 50 pounds!
They do seem very diversified in their art techniques... which I was that way 😂
Load More Replies...yeah putting someones hand in warm water when they sleep is supposed to make them wet them selves
Load More Replies...Not sure about other countries but in Ireland we have a saying if you put someone's hand in warm water when they are asleep that they will pee themselves. Gross, sorry!
MAybe I'm getting this wrong. Is this the trick where someone pees if you put their hand in lukewarm water? It definitely works, did this at a school outing.
Right, but it being a contraction makes it one word.
Load More Replies...The Golden Books with Richard and Patsy Scarry have some explaining to do......
"Huh. So this is why my local library doesn't have the Necronomicon."
The first aviators achieved something that would have made ancient people pass out from shock and wonder and maybe even think it was miraculous or witchcraft... but now we take it for granted and people are so unimpressed by the fact that we're actually FLYING that they just take naps like it's no big deal. Kind of like how when the Space Shuttle program first started everyone was glued to their TVs watching the liftoff and all that, but by the time the program was winding down, a Space Shuttle launch barely rated a mention in the newspaper.
Load More Replies...Same. If the universe is collapsing in on itself then it'll condense back into a single point creating a new Big Bang. Stands to reason everything will happen exactly the same again, over and over.
Load More Replies...There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.
doc isn't usually super helpful in punch out though XD
Load More Replies...Reminds me of this Swiss couple whose remains were recently found in the mountains for over 80 year. Their youngest child is close to 90.
How exactly do centaurs age anyway? For a horse 13 would be middle aged.
I think centaurs are one of the long-living mighty creatures. Hundreds of years maybe?
Load More Replies...You realize that this is just how people used to talk, right?
Load More Replies...Back then they didn't know what a kangaroo was.
Load More Replies...Egg hatches into a dinosaur, dinosaur eats little girls. The end.
Load More Replies...Sad fact: Sloths will think that their own legs are branches, so thew will try climbing their legs and fall to their death... RIP Sloths.
More like "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmm aaaaaaaaaaaaaa ssssssssllllllllllllllooooooooooottttttttttthhhhhhhhhh..."
Sloth:"I'm not a monkey, I'm a sloth, you damned morons!". Snails:"..........."
Imagine the baby going "wheee, again!" Like he enjoyed the ride :)
Load More Replies...Sigmund Freud did actually sleep with his patients. The father of modern psychology was not big on being ethical.
yeah but who cares about sleep anyway right? ..... ...... ...pls help...
Load More Replies...hes a sub or slave he loves when he get some pain or even humiliation thats why he was seeing hes photo from his marriage
Load More Replies...You would expect she would be horrified by what he is doing, but she's happy he's "entertained" by their wedding photos instead.
Load More Replies...Part 2: Blonde guy goes for a swim. "Hey it's that human that killed Sharky Joe!" The cycle of vengeance continues.
Pajamas with a revolver on the back? The other kid gets space rockets. No fair.
look, that lady with the red hair and green gloves is the same lady from the slim cheeseburger comic. so is the guy with the gun. guess it catches up with you when you eat too mny cheesburgers
Bwahahahaha! Well, at least the mouse and the fairy are both mammals!
But do ask for a protein squirt. Make it a fappuccino.
Load More Replies...Mario is a plumber... in real life jumping through pipes doesn't work
Load More Replies...Luigi: "But Mario... I've been there with you, to the Mushroom Kingdom!" Mario: "No, you haven't, Luigi! You have Terminal 7 brain cancer. I don't even know what that means, but it's bad." (https://youtu.be/GGWs8WYUp8c)
instead of helping like you would expect they just transform into a car and fridge so they can ignore it.
Load More Replies...Leaving me? How the f**k are you leaving me, Rocky? You dont have any legs.
So basically it's a particularly mean spirited participation award? I'm so glad they didn't give out participation awards when I was in school.
Training the kids that underachieving is winning. Join the sheep.
Load More Replies...Kid uses the condom as a Badge..and then ahem ahem
Load More Replies...Instead of wishing the bird wasn't dead he wished for ... something else
Load More Replies...If it pops when you open it, it was sealed. If it pops when you press down on it, it wasn't sealed. Confusing, but it looks like he's pressing down.
Load More Replies...the jam is seeing someone else if you look in the second panel it says pop and you read the last panel ( the words on the jar lid) it makes sense
The illustrator either got it wrong or did a bad job indicating what's happening.
But I'd assume that's the best combination without any animals being killed, isn't it!
You know... It's not like that. It looks like he was eating a little swine fetus, which grew up in an egg...
Load More Replies...Paper is the taxi driver so he doesn't have to fight...
Load More Replies...the cat has just been thrown in the air so it's faliing
Load More Replies...It seems our friend Vanessica hasn't been following the American news in the past few weeks!
Vanessica, i find that extremely racist. i have German heritage and i don't go around with a swastika on my forehead yelling about how Hitler was a great man! shame on you!
Poor dog that would have ripped that kid's head off?
Load More Replies...Already exist... I saw it on the web.. A game that take you some blood when you are hurt in the game... :-/
Load More Replies...Would have been a lie and he'd have been kicked out...Unless he manage to get psy attestation that it's needed for his mental health? Dunno..Mind blown.
Load More Replies...The mail always goes through, unless it's a very important document or birthday card that gets chewed up in the sorting machinery. But the junk always gets through unscathed.
This is actually a scene from the book, The Postman. Which was later turned into a movie with Kevin Costner.
In the Bible, there are 3 Kings, and the Rules are Jesus
Load More Replies...This reminds me of a Children's Party where they beat the c**p out of a guy wearing the Teletubbies costume
Looks like a hornet nest. Meeaannn a*s wasps that don't make honey and have no mercy to your pitiful screams of pain. Not really sure their purpose of being other than poor pollination and revenge.
Load More Replies...If you know a better way to get bacon, I'd like to hear it!
Load More Replies...That's the joke. The "mutant heroes" are the monsterous beavers.
Load More Replies...i play piano and guitar. freestyle of course, i dont know anythign about the instuments
It’s about the father giving away the bride and she is marrying someone who is beneath her class.. the whistle compared to the bassoon is worthless. He has no real goals and is just going to ride on her talent...
If you closely look at the bride in the first panel it looks like she's disgusted because of her hook
A bassoon is an insanely complicated-to-play, high-end, double-reed instrument. A whistle, you just blow into. So...Classic twist on "nobody's good enough for my little girl."
Load More Replies...Sometimes, I think my neurons get bored and do this kinda stuff to me on purpose, just for laughs. So annoying, really...
I rode a horse that would always over estimate the jump so sometimes it felt like she was flying... her name was sadly not Fancy-dancey-magic-prancey though
No more warnings? Sounds like Cromax got caught adding his "special sauce" to the food before but wasn't fired.
Workers Rights... 1.) Verbal warning. 2.) Written warning 3.) Suspension. 4.) GTFO!
Load More Replies...no, it's funny because him trying to fly (which is a huge deal for him) isn't even the top story in the newspaper. instead, the biggest news is something random and stupid.
Load More Replies...Wee-a-boo almost sounds like Russian "вы-е-бу", which basically means "I'll screw you"... So quite appropriate...
The one is trying to get the business to stay afloat while the others are more interested in playing around and taking turns paddling someone’s a*s.
Santa knows the names of all the naughty girls, and where they live. Although he's only supposed to come once a year
Once a year yeah, but he certainly visits thousands of ho...mes.
Load More Replies...He got a bad review in the paper so no no one will visit him so he went ape...
YOU GUYS. I have a working theory that I did an embarrassing amount of research for. I thought there may be a "Bambi" reference here, but having never seen the movie despite having been born in the '80s, I only had my hunch to go off of. So after reading the plot, I gathered that there is a specific fight scene in which grown-a*s Bambi, our hero, battles another buck, Ronno, to win the affections of an extremely indifferent doe with probable self-esteem issues. Bambi emerges as the victor and runs off with Jane Doe lol Anyway, there's a part in the fight scene that lines up EXACTLY with comic panel 1, Bambi being the deer on the left. So my hypothesis is that this is some alt reality or Ronno from the future (may or may not have been assismilated by borg) who is destroying that mother-f****r so he can run off and buck what's-her-tail
Update: I got those backwards. Ronno on left, Bambi on right
Load More Replies...As far as I can tell, this mutant deer has laser vision which allows him to destroy other bucks approaching him for a territorial or mating rights battle. And he seems pretty jazzed about the fact. And that's kinda creepy. And kinda cool, too. Laserdeer. Don't go hunting this year.
Naw, has to be deerper meaning than that. All puns aside, that's a terrible deery. Deeriously though, shite answer would mean a non-sequitur amongst all these clever comics. Your answer is like a redneck from some podunk-a*s town looking at a phylogenetic tree, complete with pictures, and coming up with "welp," *pauses to pull up cargo jeans and sip beer "bout near as we can figure, it all started thousands of years ago..." I think you get where I'm going with this.
Load More Replies...I just read them all, haven't laughed this hard in years! BRAVO!!!
Load More Replies...How is the last one always a repeat in these Dark Comix Collections? It’s not that dark.
I keep getting the impression that this artist wants to be the next Gary Larson(The Far Side). But for some reason, he ends up with a bit too much of the 'macabre' and not enough 'delicious irony' to keep people wanting more. :O
Nope ... anybody doing more than one panel is not ever trying to emulate Larson. Try again to be interesting (at least it would be interesting to see how you fail to pull it off).
Load More Replies...Haha. I used to deliver the Daily Orange on campus back in 2002. Best part of the job was reading the newest PBF on our route. I bought the book that they put out years ago. So psyched to see it here on Bored Panda.
So did BoredPanda get permission from pbfcomics to use these? Did they pay for them?
I love these comics! The artist knows lots about human behavior, lol.
I keep getting the impression that this artist wants to be the next Gary Larson(The Far Side). But for some reason, he ends up with a bit too much of the 'macabre' and not enough 'delicious irony' to keep people wanting more. :O
Nope ... anybody doing more than one panel is not ever trying to emulate Larson. Try again to be interesting (at least it would be interesting to see how you fail to pull it off).
Load More Replies...Haha. I used to deliver the Daily Orange on campus back in 2002. Best part of the job was reading the newest PBF on our route. I bought the book that they put out years ago. So psyched to see it here on Bored Panda.
So did BoredPanda get permission from pbfcomics to use these? Did they pay for them?
I love these comics! The artist knows lots about human behavior, lol.
