Ted Rall included Gurewitch and "The Perry Bible Fellowship" in their 2006 book, "". Rall described the comic as "a webcomics phenom", saying it had "leapt from widespread popularity among the technocrati to... mainstream print media". Rall called it a "twisted blending of the cute and profane", saying that "a lot of humor involves violence, but the horror is tempered with a gentle, sweet tone." Boing Boing, reviewing the 2009 printed Almanack, called "PBF" "a concentrated dose of the kind of dark, twisted humor that makes you bark with laughter and look away at the same time...complemented by Gurewitch's visual style, which veers from the simplistic and cartoonish to incredibly detailed line art that's like something out of Tony Millionaire."