Cruel and Unusual (comics)

Cruel and Unusual
Cover to Cruel and Unusual #1, art by John McCrea.
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Format	Miniseries
Publication date	June – September 1999
No. of issues	4
Creative team
Created by	Jamie Delano Tom Peyer John McCrea
Written by	Jamie Delano Tom Peyer
Penciller(s)	John McCrea
Inker(s)	Andrew Chiu
Letterer(s)	Annie Parkhouse
Colorist(s)	Digital Chameleon Tatjana Wood
Editor(s)	Cliff Chiang Stuart Moore
Collected editions
Cruel and Unusual	ISBN   0-9795939-2-1

Cruel and Unusual is a four-issue American comic book miniseries created in 1999 by Jamie Delano and Tom Peyer (writers), John McCrea (penciller) and Andrew Chiu (inker), and published by Vertigo.

Synopsis

America's struggling prison system is turned over to TV producers, who exploit everything possible for profit, making reality shows of the prisoners and even hosting live executions.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

• Cruel and Unusual (112 pages, softcover, Desperado Publishing, September 2007, ISBN   0-9795939-2-1) ^[1]
• Cruel and Unusual (Italian language) (128 pages, hardcover, Green Comm Services, August 2013, ISBN   978-88-90788-51-2) ^[2]

Notes

1. Cruel and Unusual trade details Archived 2009-11-11 at the Wayback Machine at Desperado
2. Italian version of "Cruel and Unusual" Archived 2013-11-09 at the Wayback Machine at Green comm Services

References

• Cruel and Unusual at the Grand Comics Database
• Cruel and Unusual at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)