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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 3h

Twin Cities comics fans! Come see me and the rest of the reprobates of World Monster HQ at @mncbaorg.bsky.social 's FallCon this weekend -- Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4 -- at the State Fairgrounds!

A flyer advertising the appearance of world famous and beloved cartoonist Zander Cannon at FallCon, a comic convention in Minnesota

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"slams," or "accurately encapsulates why people like it"?

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All those fakeout silver age Superman covers are finally justified

Among other things, Superman forces Jimmy Olsen to dig his own grave

Among other things, Superman refuses the last drop of water to a dying Jimmy Olsen

Superman holds Jimmy Olsen up by his collar, threatening to pulverize him

Superman burns a hole in a super themed robe that his adopted son Jimmy Olsen gave him, just to be mean

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He could have been a globetrotting boy reporter teaming up with a salty sea captain, a deaf scientist, and two bumbling policemen, but he chose this

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🎃 Return of the Living Jacob, Father of Beefcake🎃 @fatherofbeefcake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another winner from @zandercannon.bsky.social. A genuinely unique take on this kind of story. Genuinely eerie and unsettling with excellent artwork and writing. One of my favorite horror comics in awhile. The last panel made me emotional in a good way.

My graphic novel copy of Sleep by Zander Cannon.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Furious, of course. How could they forget the Rhedosaurus, the Beast From 20,000 Fathoms??

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Tom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shout-out to @zandercannon.bsky.social from @flophousepodcast.com @dankmccoy.bsky.social @elliottkalan.bsky.social and Stuart Wellington Re: top 3 list of kaiju not starting with the letter G: "I hope Zander Cannon's listening to this episode and getting angry that we're forgetting obvious ones."

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FH Mini 159 – Clearing the Floppet

Does that pun work? Like docket? Like “clearing the docket” over on our friends’ show Judge John Hodgman? Anywhoooo. Stu leads this mini where we name our “Top Three’s” and…

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It will not surprise you that that subplot in Top 10 was 100% the origin of the idea that became Kaijumax.

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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Celebrate the launch of @sweetshop.app, the new digital comic shop for fans of discerning taste, by buying all three of @zandercannon.bsky.social's INCREDIBLE Kaijumax HCs in this incredibly discounted bundle. Kaijumax, of course, comes with my highest of recommendations, and check out Sweet Shop!

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Kaijumaxxing

Rise n' grind (the masses beneath your giant monster feet)

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Those layouts -- for the first several pages of issue 1 -- are actually by Gene. I was brought in about halfway through the first issue.

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Now You Know The More You Know PSA

ALT: Now You Know The More You Know PSA

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Ryan Kelly @ryankelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exciting News: i’ll be officially unemployed as of this Friday. Need an artist? Think of me as a possibility. Paying work only, please. Here’s a page from a recent Funrama as a sample (Funrama written, drawn + created by me on my patreon)

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Architect's assistant.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's possible! There were several identifiably grieving parents. :-)

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dropped Jin (age 18) off at college. The restaurant where we had an early dinner made the terrible choice to play "The Cat's in the Cradle" over the speakers.

A handsome Korean-American college student points at his newly-decorated dorm room

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely the same. I know this is costing WB tons of money, because they have someone following up four or five times. I SAID YOU'LL GET IT WHEN YOU GET IT

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hate it so much and it's all the god damn time.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Grateful to have the blessing of @zandercannon.bsky.social whose work on Sleep, Kaijumax, Smax, and Top Ten has inspired me for 25 years. Pre-order the new The Toxic Avenger vs. The Noxious Offender at your comic shop.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fun fact: this came out the same year as my very first comic (Chainsaw Vigilante No. 1, 1993), and since Walter Koenig went to my alma mater (Grinnell College), the two comics were featured together in an article in the alumni magazine.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So fun. It's a huge venue, and it was completely sold out

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Saw Weird Al at the MN State Fair last night (along with Puddles' Pity Party) (it ruled)

Weird Al in his iconic pose, rocking out with an accordion

Fireworks explode over the grandstand stage at the MN State Fair

Puddles (a Pagliacci-like sad clown) performs a song with an audience member who is dressed as a bottle of tequila

Two cool young people at the Great Minnesota get-together

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I do this as well, for the last ten years/1200 pages, give or take. Lets you do all kinds of idiosyncratic things that can be tough for a font (drunk/dizzy, one-off styles, all the diacritical marks, etc). Forces you to draw your own balloons and match the line art, too.

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Paul @rafto93.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's morning read is issue 21 of Absolute Superman by @jason-aaron.bsky.social @rafasandoval.bsky.social @zandercannon.bsky.social Ulises Arreola & @beccasee.bsky.social This is the finale of the Reign of the Superman storyline and it was a fantastic read. This is an amazing book.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've been watching Among Us lately and it rules. I recommend it.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 11/08/2026

Been reading Kaijumax by Zander Cannon and it rules. I recommend it.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Totally agree. Even in long-running series these days, I feel like there's a sense that you have to have a pretty buzzy premise to kick off every 6-10 issues. Again, I think this is good training for creatives, but that sort of stuff is nervewracking.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Honestly, I haven't any idea about that end of it, although I'm sure the possibility of getting a self-contained YA hit on par with Dogman or Smile, et al, has got to occur to them.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The days of single-issue stories being the standard are long over, giving way to longer arcs, and thus to the danger of your work dragging a bit. The presumption of one's new series potentially being 5-6 issues -- and possibly no more -- forces pitches to be a little more focused.

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(Or, of course, a great success that runs for 100 issues)

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The precarity of freelancers aside, this is a slight improvement on a system in which every series is either a great success that runs for a hundred issues or a failure that fizzles after seven. In this system your comic can be a nice, tidy 6-issue story that sold so-so but became a cult classic.

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Érico Assis @ericoassis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Grandes momentos da tradução: - kaijus fazendo repente! - “todo dia a mesma âmbar-gris” - 19 páginas de extras explicando as referências! #traduzi

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Érico Assis @ericoassis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#traduzi e deu uma trabalheira tamanho kaiju. Acho que ficou legal. Lançamento da Cyberpulp. Hey, @zandercannon.bsky.social !

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's a pity that thrift store records are $8+ these days because I found a real banger yesterday

A strange old (60s?) record album cover showing a man sitting on the hood of a sports car. the artist is Enzo Stuarti, and the album is called "That's-A-Nice"

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wow, that's an old one! That was one of the strips I did for my college paper in ~1993 (and that had clearly told me "just do whatever"). Like you say, Negative Burn was a great place to bring weird stuff that really doesn't fit anywhere else!

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Narf16 @narf16.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Absolute Superman #21 @jason-aaron.bsky.social @rafasandoval.bsky.social @zandercannon.bsky.social Ulises Arreola & @beccasee.bsky.social. The end of the Reign of the Superman story arc. Kal and Teth-Adam continue the massive fight from last issue. #AbsoluteSuperman #DC #DComics #Comics #Comicsky

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Zander Cannon | SLEEP HC/TPB out now!! @zandercannon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(I did layouts for one issue to help the art team) (It was a lot of fun)

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