Zander Cannon

• Born 1972-11-01

Zander Cannon is an American cartoonist. 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](app://series/5380), 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. Cannon worked as layout artist on [Top 10](app://series/7062), with writer Alan Moore and finishing artist Gene Ha, and pencilled its spin-off miniseries [Smax](app://series/12078), with Moore and inker Andrew Currie, for America's Best Comics. Zander and Kevin Cannon have worked together on many comics & illustration projects, including several nonfiction graphic novels. In 2012 they launched the digital comics magazine Double Barrel, in which Zander Cannon is serializing the graphic novel Heck, his first long-form solo comics project since The Replacement God. Top Shelf Productions collected [Heck #[nn] (July 2013)](app://issue/1171540) into graphic novel format in 2013. Cannon has been developing the [Kaijumax](app://series/88347) series since 2015 as writer and artist. Kaijumax tells the story of a kaiju (monster in Japanese) jail. In 2025, he started the 8-issue horror series [Sleep](app://series/224107).