Zander Cannon

Alexander "Zander" Cannon (b. November 1, 1972, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comics writer and artist.

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November 1 - 1972 - Boston - Massachusetts - American - Comics

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He graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa in 1995 with a B.A. in English. His first professional comics work was The Chainsaw Vigilante, a spin-off from The Tick, from New England Comics Press. 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.

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Grinnell College - Iowa - The Tick - The Replacement God - Fantasy - Slave Labor Graphics - Image Comics

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

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Top 10 - Alan Moore - Gene Ha - Smax - Andrew Currie - America's Best Comics

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

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Big Time Attic - Shad Petosky - Grinnell College - Kevin Cannon - Jim Ottaviani

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