Cruel and Unusual (comics)

Cruel and Unusual
Cover to Cruel and Unusual #1. Art by John McCrea
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Format	Mini-series
Publication date	June – September 1999
Number of issues	4
Creative team
Writer(s)	Jamie Delano Tom Peyer
Penciller(s)	John McCrea
Inker(s)	Andrew Chiu
Letterer(s)	Annie Parkhouse
Colorist(s)	Digital Chameleon Tatjana Wood
Creator(s)	Jamie Delano Tom Peyer John McCrea
Editor(s)	Cliff Chiang Stuart Moore
Collected editions
Cruel and Unusual	ISBN 0979593921

Cruel and Unusual is a four-issue American comic book mini-series 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, Desperado Publishing, September 2007, ISBN 0979593921)^[1]

Notes

1. ^ Cruel and Unusual trade details at Desperado

References

• Cruel and Unusual at the Grand Comics Database
• Cruel and Unusual at the Comic Book DB