Zander Cannon

Zander Cannon
at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 9, 2010.
Born	November 1, 1972 (1972-11-01) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Top 10 Smax

Alexander "Zander" Cannon (born November 1, 1972) is an American comics writer and artist, known for his work on books such as Top 10 and Smax.

Early life

Cannon was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1995 with a B.A. in English.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Cannon's first professional comics work was The Chainsaw Vigilante, a spin-off from The Tick, from New England Comics. Beginning in the mid-1990s, he wrote and drew The Replacement God, a fantasy comic book about a former slave named Knute who is pursued across the fictional land of Mun by a tyrannical king and his beatnik Visigoth Death Horde. The first eight issues were published by Slave Labor Graphics, a subsequent five issues were published by Image Comics, and one issue was self-published by Cannon under his Handicraft Guild imprint.

Cannon worked as layout artist on Top 10, with writer Alan Moore and finishing artist Gene Ha, and pencilled its spin-off miniseries Smax, with Moore and inker Andrew Currie, for America's Best Comics.

In August 2004 Cannon co-founded Big Time Attic with former co-publisher Shad Petosky and fellow Grinnell College alumnus Kevin Cannon. With Big Time Attic, he has illustrated a book with Jim Ottaviani entitled Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards.

Bibliography

• Chainsaw Vigilante (art and script, 3-issue mini-series, New England Comics, 1993–1994)
• Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (with Jim Ottaviani, G.T. Labs, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9660106-6-4)

External links

• Big Time Attic
• Zander Cannon at the Comic Book DB
• The Big Time Attic interview at Comic Book Galaxy