December 21st, 2010 by kevinczap

The End

Happy birthday, hypocrite
I hope you got the letter I sent
Send a smile to mom and dad
let them know I’m never gonna come back

I’ve been around for 20 years
(I added one for all my effort)
and now I plan to disappear
forever

Dear Nora — “Up on the Roof”

Ok guys, this is the end.

Chapter 25: The End

Thanks to everyone who’s been reading. Hopefully this is a satisfying ending, and you’re able to start to see where I was going with this crazy stuff. There are some extra things in this chapter that I didn’t include here, so to get the full experience, check it out on the website. I’ve tinkered with things over there so it should load a whole lot faster than it has in the past, so it’s not such a drag waiting for the whole thing to pop up. Go give it a spin, if you’d like.

I asked my buddy and press release maestro Dan Tallarico write up a press release for this event. Enjoy:

For Immediate Release

Cleveland, Ohio, December 19, 2010 — Kevin Czapiewski proudly announces that he has finished writing and drawing the final chapter of his long running comic series, Spoilers. Spoilers is a non-linear absurdist fable with tinges of magical realism, Spoilers is about a girl who wants to disappear and things falling apart. Kevin has been working on this comic for quite some time and confesses that this completion is, “like a robotic parrot made out of a foreign hybrid metal (mostly mercury and lead) finally generated enough lift to fly off of my shoulder. And yes, I’m a pirate in this analogy.”

Spoilers originated when Kevin was a young lad. His friends and family kept spoiling all the things he loved. “First it was the milk, which was fine by me,” Kevin said, “but then it was the ending to Goonies, then Final Fantasy VII, then the final season of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and the last straw was the Sixth Sense. I just wished I could have vanished and avoid all these spoilers. Hence this comic.”

From its offset, the comic has strayed from its ‘spoiler’ roots. While it begins with a plop and a fizzle, the plot takes a wild ride that covers topics such as:

Pizza
Teeth
Ghouls
Ghost
The youth
Physics
Entropy
The mystical beings in the ether
Craters

One famed comic book critic argues that, “Spoilers is revolutionary for its time. Not only does it exist in one single web page that requires absolutely 0 clicks to navigate, but the art is as intoxicating as Pepe Le Pew in heat. I’d say this is the It’s A Wonderful Life of the current generation.”

With the comic finished, Kevin plans to seek inspiration for his next piece of work by tattling on everyone he knows. “I spent much of my life on the run from people, fearful of their truths,” Kevin said. “Now I want to be the one scaring folks with my knowledge, telling them things they aren’t ready to hear.” To begin, Kevin plans to set-up camp in a high school hallway and see what sort of juicy gossip he can wrangle up.

For those who haven’t read the entire series of Spoilers, you can do so here: http://kevinczap.com/spoilers.

For more information, quotes, interviews, insight, or gossip, please contact Dan Tallarico

We’re in the midst of grim times, and this comic has been a way for me to try to articulate how I feel about it all. This final chapter going up means that I’ve finished the first draft — some of the early chapters are begging for an update, and the website itself needs to shift over into a more permanent phase. Of course, I appreciate any comments and critiques anybody has to how I can make it better. But for now, it’s a very rewarding feeling to actually have made it to the end.

I’ll be taking the rest of the year off, going on what I’ve dubbed the Wonderful Spoilers Wrap East Coast Tour. I’m heading down to DC for a week and then heading up to New York where I hope to hang out with some old friends and great cartoonists to celebrate the end to the year where it all came together. Hope to see you there!

But wait, there’s more! Inside!

REWIND

But how could this have happened? Where have we been? How did we get here? My god, what have I done?! For your reading convenience, I’ve put up each of the chapters here, individually, in one place so that you can go through and relive it all over again.

Chapter 1: Shh

Chapter 2: Kool-Aid

Chapter 3: Title Sequence

Chapter 4: Man Reappears Out of Thin Air

Chapter 5: Every Little Star

Chapter 6: The Woods

Chapter 7: Somewhere Else

Chapter 8: Ghosts Aren’t Scary Here

Chapter 9: The History of Vertical 9

Chapter 10: A Tribute

Chapter 11: Intermission

Chapter 12: The Gover’mnt

Chapter 13: Bye (I Miss You Already)

Chapter 14: !!

Chapter 15: My Beautiful Teeth

Chapter 16: Talking About Now

Chapter 17: The Jewel

Chapter 18: What’s to Become of Us?

Chapter 19: Oh

Chapter 20: Chemistry Class

Chapter 21: Songs Written in Second Person

Chapter 22: Seeds

Chapter 23: Pizza Time Comics

Chapter 24: Ghosts

SPECIAL FEATURES

Let’s get Criterion up in this bitch.

Old Drawings

Here are some character sketches I did in 2004 when I was starting the comic

Kevin Czap Spoilers

Fan Art

I don’t know if Spoilers really has fans, but here are some great drawings by two very good friends of mine.

Kevin Czap Spoilers
-Matt Czap

Kevin Czap Spoilers
-Liz Suburbia

True Things

Clearly, Amelia Earhart is somewhat of an inspiration for this story, being the namesake for that one person in it… can’t remember her very well. Well, did you know that this happened this year?: Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart’s.

Holy Smokes.

Also, this year is the 30th anniversary of Tōru Iwatani of Namco creating the famous Pac Man.

Soundtrack

Kevin Czap Spoilers

At PIX and Genghis Con, I handed out free little sampler CDs to serve as the soundtrack to Spoilers. The discs were filled with songs directly quoted in the strip, or at least have pretty direct correlation. On the soundtracks I gave out, the last track listed was The Emperors of New Skete’s “Songs Written in Second Person.” This was just a joke, the song doesn’t actually exist (that was the most recent chapter when I first put them together, so it was kind of an incentive to check out the comic).

Here’s the soundtrack, for everyone to enjoy now. I’ve replaced the fake 9th track with a real song, which I feel is a fitting ending to the strip, now that everything is out in the open. Hope you enjoy it.