The award-winning Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip features bitingly sarcastic representations of themes that include religion, sexuality, war, science fiction, suicide, violence, and death. The comics explore the irony of reality (or the reality of irony) in a dark and farcical manner through the juxtaposition of whimsical, child-like imagery with extremely morbid, absurdist humor. It has achieved a cult following both online and through weekly appearances in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Now, for the first time, these astonishing, hilarious cartoons by Nicholas Gurewitch are being collected in a handsome, hardcover edition titled The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories.

When asked about his experience with the Perry Bible Fellowship collection, Nicholas Gurewitch states, "I am very glad that the strips can now be tossed in a backpack, borrowed from a friend, or discovered on a shelf."

Nicholas Gurewitch attended New York's Syracuse University, where he studied film and where his comic strip was first published in The Daily Orange. The Perry Bible Fellowship has received eight awards in various categories over the history of the strip.

"Nick Gurewitch's strip is one of the few strips that makes me laugh out loud. It's really funny and if newspapers still cared about funny strips, he'd be in more papers, as he should. Except if they bump mine for him.” -Tony Millionaire

"Gurewitch's "Perry Bible Fellowship" is a weird mix of sharp and clever gag writing with a hippy-trippy visual sensibility. Go figure! It also keeps getting better and better . . . ” -Peter Bagge

"A work of sheer brilliance" -Jim Woodring

"PBF is hilarious and fu**ed-up in a very sublime way." -Scott McCloud

"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 (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

"If Rod Serling had a sense of humor and an illustration degree, this would be his comic strip." -Tom Brazelton (Theater Hopper)

"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 Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories will be available September 26, 2007 and will retail for $14.95.