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" Marriage proposals written in dead bodies, mime mayor assassinations, and well-endowed gingerbread men. These are the brainchildren of Nichloas Gurewitch, father of the Perry Bible Fellowship, a weekly comic strip filled with a morbid mixture of sex, aliens, children, fantasy, or whatever else floats through Gurewitch&amp;#039;s head. The strip has grown by leaps and bounds since it first started six years ago, when Gurewitch -- then a film student at Syracuse -- was doing it as a side project. Today, it&amp;#039;s his full-time job. More than 30 newspapers and magazines syndicate PBF, including The Guardian (UK), Boston&amp;#039;s Weekly Dig, Detroit&amp;#039;s Metro Times, and Maxim. And now, Gurewitch has hit the big time. This September, Dark Horse Comics will publish a collection of the 24-year-old artist&amp;#039;s strips. Damn, dude. You&amp;#039;ve got a book deal. What&amp;#039;s in it? I&amp;#039;ve been working on it almost two years. It&amp;#039;ll have a few new things, a section of lost comics and comics that were basically too hot for the Internet -- if there is such a thing. It&amp;#039;ll pretty much be a collection of everything I&amp;#039;ve done, although I can&amp;#039;t guarantee all the comics will make it in. The book will be called The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories. That&amp;#039;s a reference to a character who was a spy and agent for a team of chocolates. Agent for a team of what now? Where do you get these ideas? Well, I&amp;#039;m interested in practical jokes and retribution, but I don&amp;#039;t spend too much analyzing how much of my life ends up in the comics. There certainly a lot of scenes that are in both my life and the comic -- I&amp;#039;d probably be too embarrassed to name them, though. Don&amp;#039;t be embarrassed. Come on. Share. Well, one example that does come to mind one is called &amp;quot;No Survivors.&amp;quot; I think I was coping with the loss of a relationship with a very gorgeous girl and was trying to woo her back by showing her how sad I was. In retrospect, I realize this was very idiotic. Basically I was trying to save our relationship by showing her something that wasn&amp;#039;t very beautiful -- my sadness. I&amp;#039;m pretty sure this inspired the spelling out of a marriage proposal with dead bodies in that comic. What does your grandma think of your work? She likes my comics. I do worry that I can&amp;#039;t show my little cousins or my grandfather for that matter. I also worry about my grandfather&amp;#039;s interpretations because anyone that comes from a generation that experienced World War II has a respect for human life I don&amp;#039;t always have or that our generation lacks. Not everyone views tragedy as a comedic device. Is there anything you won&amp;#039;t joke about? No, I don&amp;#039;t see any reason to avoid a topic. If you can make a powerful enough statement, it provides an understanding of the miraculous and it&amp;#039;s entirely worth its weight in nastiness. You can make a movie like A Clockwork Orange and get away with showing an event like rape, and if contributes to a point that is marvelous I think you&amp;#039;re totally within your right to do so. Most people leave college to get away from home, but you moved back. Why on Earth would you do that? I didn&amp;#039;t have the ambition to go anyplace else. Since I was doing the comic strip for the papers, it didn&amp;#039;t really matter where I was. So I just stuck around. Home is nice, I enjoy being close to my family but I anticipate moving away from them soon. I&amp;#039;ve been spending a lot of time in Rochester lately. That&amp;#039;s a really nice place. Anywhere that there&amp;#039;s opportunity really. Once I find a reason to move, I&amp;#039;ll do it in a second. Outside of the book and a potential move to Rochester, do you have any othe big goals for this year? I&amp;#039;d like to win an Academy Award very soon. Within three years. Wait, let&amp;#039;s say five. And I&amp;#039;d like to do something really amazing soon. I know that&amp;#039;s pretty vague. I&amp;#039;d like to rattle things up maybe. I&amp;#039;d love to prevent the downfall of civilization. You dream big. There are so many problems, it sure is easy to dream. Oh, I&amp;#039;d love to get into politics. I&amp;#039;d love to be the President. Really? What would your platform be? Although you can identify the things that are wrong, very few people can know what they want to do that&amp;#039;s right. I think I would probably want to resurrect Teddy Roosevelt&amp;#039;s Bull Moose Party, but I should probably finish reading his biography before I say anything else. The Perry Bible Fellowship is published every Wednesday at PBFComics.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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