The cover to Chrusher: End Cycle, issue #1, available in print and online. The author is currently rebuilding the webcomic site (which permenantly crashed last year) at a rate of a handful of comic book pages a day. Please look and come back often! In the meantime...
Chrusher: End Cycle. #1
Written and Illustrated by Christopher Galletta Stevens
Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 20
POD
A serial killer systematically slaughters three people. And although forensic artist/private detective Chace "Chrusher" Kristoph has been tracking the psychopath, a mysterious psychic detective named Neeja Sakra alerts him that he may have unwittingly become the target of the killer he seeks. All the while haunted by a beautiful woman from his past. A globe-spanning thriller about crime, love, hatred, and revenge. This Graphic Novel is being debuted in serialized comic book format before released as a book.
Chrusher: End Cycle #1 (Rated-R Edition) TM and © Christopher Galletta Stevens. All rights reserved.
On sale in print at IndyPlanet:
Rated R edition - $3.99
PG-13 Edition - $3.99
But the currently updating graphic novel did not just start out of nowhere. It had humble beginnings when the author was in high school as a 'sketchook with a storyline' to entertain himself and his friends, family and classmates. It was a comic book with mostly character-driven comedy revolving around a bunch of odd high school students - formerly known as Chris' Crusher Comics, now known as Classic ChrusherComix. It continued after school, with The Return of The Chrusher limited series, and a series of 10-Minute Quickie Editions.
In 1988, an Oswego High School freshman named Chris Stevens decided to take his talent of drawing and entertain himself and his friends by drawing a sketchbook-with-a-storyline featuring character-driven comedy and violence. It became a hit. This whole website is devoted to the ongoing series that started as sketches on lined paper and evolved into the sophisticated professional artwork you see today. Enjoy!
In 1988, an Oswego High School freshman named Chris Stevens decided to take his talent of drawing and entertain himself and his friends by drawing a sketchbook-with-a-storyline featuring character-driven comedy and violence. It became a hit. This whole website is devoted to the ongoing series that started as sketches on lined paper and evolved into the sophisticated professional artwork you see today. Enjoy!
Classic ChrusherComix #1 | Chrusher vs. Foule vs. Butski!
It is the year 1988, and two 14-year-old high school misfits and nerds -- named Mike Butski and Ronald Foule -- have a fight in the Oswegonian High School hallways, then drag Chris Crusher into their spat. This seemingly meaningless high school disagreement birthed a twenty year grudge match which spreads all the way to the "Chrusher: End Cycle" graphic novel. Witness the humble beginnings of the "ChrusherComix" universe and watch it grow from an amateur, silly serial in a high school notepad twenty years ago to a full-fledged comic book today. The complete collection begins with this issue, which is itself a collection of the first three mini-issues in normal comic book format. Enjoy!
In the late 1980s at an everyday high school in Oswegonia, a war is brewing between a band of nerds and misfits known as The Welforce, inept and corrupt school faculty, low-level criminal masterminds, and a band of teen quasi-vigilantes known as The Conquerors - led by a lad known as Chris Crusher - or Chrusher for short. Starting in 1988 when 14-year-old Christopher Galletta Stevens drew a comic book in high school study hall to entertain himself and his friends. The book continued ever since, and -- after never seeing print and being in storage for two decades -- has now finally seen publication! Read the exciting, humorous, and highly action-packed "sketchbook with a storyline" from the first crappily-done issues! The saga ends in the new interrelated -- but not interdependent -- "Chrusher: End Cycle" - which is also being printed simultaneously. Enjoy the unknown comic book which readers call the funniest 'unknown' comic they ever read!
Classic Chrusher Comix #1 TM and © Christopher Galletta Stevens. All rights reserved.
Available in-print at IndyPlanet! $2.99
All are interrelated to the above graphic novel, but independant - meaning they are within the same fictional universe, but can stand on their own if need be. The site is constantly updating, and has over 1,000 pages to read! Please read a lot, and by all means, help the author and encourage more by voting, buying the published volumes, and coming back often!
