title: Cruel and Unusual (comics)
text: # Cruel and Unusual (comics)
  
  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, softcover, Desperado Publishing, September 2007, ISBN 0-9795939-2-1)
  * Cruel and Unusual (Italian language) (128 pages, hardcover, Green Comm Services, August 2013, ISBN 978-88-90788-51-2)
  