Zander Cannon

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

Cannon's depiction of Smax and partner Toybox.

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 finished 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.