Sketch Book

''Why are kids cruel you ask? It must be something in their brain or maybe just something about their brain.''

_______Jude on Cori beign prone to cruelty

Sketch Book chronicles the childhood of Crashayla Ewwitz before the events of Coloring book. It deals with Cori's years as a homeless runt and how she discovered her delusional philosophy of art in life.

At age 6, Cori Ewwitz accidentally murders an albino boy while bullying him and is sent away from her adoptive home to an independent foster home. Abused and mistreated, she meets many stronger kids who bully her relentlessly. She meets Corey a middle class boy who lives in the neighborhood and befriends him. The older boy begins to brainwash Cori, telling her that there is an agenda to there miserable lives and he convinces her to runaway with him into the decayed and impoverished city of Sketch.

Once the two escape, what should have been a game of survival turns into one of amusement and self fulfillment. They meet countless other runaways, bullies,, perverts, and gangsters along the way. Corey teaches Cori that sadness and suffering is boring and instead convinces her to commit multiple dangerouse acts of mischief and stunt work. Cori begins to record survival strategies and eventually she creates her own moral code and philosophy based off her experiences. Corey ends up abandoning Cori after a scuffle with authorities and even though she is able to escape, she is never able to find him again.

Cori spends an entire year of her life searching for Corey and when she finally gives up she is captured and thrown into an orphanage. Once here Cori is abused by the majority of the other children and staff. She begins to record these insults into her book and learns how to be a bully again. She starts to pick on people again and considers it a branch of her art which also involves all manners of mischief, self endangerment and complete absurdity.

Cori is sent to multiple homes due to the schools she attends but begins to practice a cycle of getting kicked out from the schools every six months. When Cori returns to the city of sketch she decides to purposefully get expelled by pulling the fire alarm and then spray painting the entirety of the schools halls and classrooms. After a series of misunderstandings, Cori is classified as a capital offense to the safety of society and is shipped off to the city of Twisted where her ridiculouse adventures as a hoodlum begin.