Zander Cannon

Alexander "Zander" Cannon (born November 1, 1972) is an American comics writer and artist.

Cannon was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Grinnell College 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.

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".

External links

* [http://www.bigtimeattic.com/ Big Time Attic]
* [http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/bigtimeattic.html The Big Time Attic interview at Comic Book Galaxy]