Notes On A Case Of Melancholia: Or, A Little Death

"Nicholas Gurewitch’s The Perry Bible Fellowship graphic novel may be jarringly at odds with our current moment, or it may be perfectly suited to it. It’s a comedy about death – or Death, to be more precise, as in the Grim Reaper himself. Entirely free of dialogue, it has a tiny little story: Death, feeling depressed, seeks psychoanalytic treatment. But Gurewitch’s virtuosic illustrations make every one of these 48 pages an event. They’re in chilly black and white with a few touches of hot pink, and they’re etched – not inked with a brush or written onto a chip by a stylus, but painstakingly scratched into clay. Combined with the playful mordancy of Gurewitch’s story, the effect is both striking and seditious."