Zander Cannon | ✨SLEEP ✨ from Image Comics

Lampshades on Fire by Modest Mouse. Just a perfect song.

Zander Cannon on Sleep From Image Comics!

New interview with @zandercannon.bsky.social on Sleep from @imagecomics.com! open.substack.com/pub/austinal...

God, me too! I really loved those couple issues that he did, and Steve Skroce really rode the line between the polish and energy of Image at the time and the tight storytelling of Alan Moore's best adventure stuff.

If only!!

Hector Plasm: Hunt the Bigfoot #2, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by Derek Hunter. Hector uses his ectoplasm to summon the ghost of Riptide, who attacks Sentinel, proclaiming, "It was Sentinel! Sentinel is the one who killed me!" The book's trade dress is designed to look like the Judgment Day miniseries in which it was revealed that Sentinel killed Riptide.

Blood & Thunder #7, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by EJ Su. Blood and Thunder pose with Shaft, who pulls back on his bow. They stand in front of a star-spangled field.

Capes #1, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by Mark Englert. Superball, Claire Voyant, Battery Bill, and Night Knight from Capes, as well as Shaft, Badrock, Diehard, and Vogue from Youngblood, dive toward the viewer from the sky in an action pose.

Youngblood Team-Up covers! Everybody's doin em!

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A variant cover for Zander Cannon's Image comic SLEEP #7, in which a colorful speedster superhero -- Doc Rocket, from Youngblood -- zooms into the horror mystery series'grayscale-with-red-highlights town. Does it make any sense? No! Is it fun anyway? Yes!

I'm one of the pretty-unrelated series that will have a Youngblood variant cover in November!!
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The covers of Sleep #4 and 5. Is alt text for the sight-impaired? Then you can’t really get into a comic book, so no point describing the covers, sorry!

It’s Sleep #4 and 5 by @zandercannon.bsky.social ! Still more questions than answers. I have got less than bupkus for Why Is Some Stuff Red? But I sure as shit noticed that sunlight through a church window is monochrome white, but artificial light at the lab is a lovely blue*. This cements my
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This is a “quiet” horror series that needs to be on more people’s pull lists.

31 Days Of Halloween Comics: Sleep Don't sleep on this one.

Sleep by writer and artist Zander Cannon from Image Comics is a tense monster tale that never shows the monster.

#Sleep #5 by @zandercannon.bsky.social. Tabby continues to help Jonathan try to figure out what is the entity that possesses him. They try an experiment in the town's mine to weaken it. The cover letters spell ACIEL - which was a human turned demon and hates religion. Recommend.

YouTube video by The FAQs Project Sleep Issue #5 Review | Just when I think I'm out @imagecomics

New FAQs Project Review of Sleep Issue #5 by @zandercannon.bsky.social for @imagecomics.com as Jonathan’s last ditch efforts make no efforts to rid himself of the Beast, but his friend Tabby may have a solution. #comics

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I remember reading this when it came out and a) immediately recognizing Adams (he was my first must-buy comic artist too) and b) aping the style of that blue alien's teeth in my next 200 drawings.

The only upside is that I get to picture you flailing your arms around

Today! Head on down to your local comic book store and grab it!

Oh yeah! The trilogy (of smaller, more portable readers editions) will be complete!!

This book is weird and good and I love it.

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for banana bread.

A smiling middle aged cartoonist (me, Zander Cannon) smiles as he holds up two versions of issue 5 of his comic book SLEEP.

The A-cover for Image Comics' SLEEP, depicting a grayscale senior photo of a girl, with images of broken glass, wrecked books, and a trophy of some kind strewn about. The artist, Zander Cannon, peeks from behind the comic to make sure the photo looks right on his phone.

The B-cover of Image Comics' SLEEP #5, drawn by legendary comic artist Brian Hurtt, depicting the protagonist screaming in agony and clenching his hand while a demonic hand makes the same gesture in the background. Blood seeps from his eyes, nose, and mouth. It's awesome. The interior artist, Zander Cannon, peeks from behind the comic book.

✨Tomorrow!!✨ Sleep #5 is on the stands! With a variant cover by legendary artist @brihurtt.bsky.social (Sixth Gun, The Damned) and a regular cover by me (completing a small puzzle started on the 1st issue)! Last issue Tabby and Jon decided to put some distance between him and the town--did it work??

I will! Just down the road for me. Are you going?

“Oh did I see you posting A.I? Instant unfollow Are you trying to argue with me about it? Instant block” There is a small cartoon portrait of myself, a round-faced Asian guy with round glasses and short hair, saying, “I’m just not that patient.”

UwU

Not so fast, not so fast! What was the first part again?

I just sent an email today that had to bluntly clarify this!

A panel from TOP 10 #12 by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon, Alex Sinclair, and Todd Klein, in which Dust Devil says "Come on. We don't need no last big grandstand play here. That's young guy stuff. Y'know, Lomax, you had a career since the late forties, right? You had the rep, you had the dough...why risk all that, just for underage tail?"

Been thinking about Alan Moore, @geneha.com, @zandercannon.bsky.social, Alex Sinclair, and Todd Klein's TOP 10 a lot recently.

No particular reason.

Cartoonists can perform some grassroots action on that front, by delivering their comics two months late! (not recommended)

This one, and "The Mouse And His Child" from Sanrio, of all places, were the two that occupied a place in my mind where I kind of wondered if I'd just made them up.

Strangely enough, photocopied 8-page minicomics (either half- or quarter-page size) are the secret both 30 years ago *and* now. It shows grit, self-starting, and a willingness to embrace imperfection. And now, when physical media is thin on the ground, it's a refreshing change.

YouTube video by EndsAndOdds Romie-0 and Julie-8 - Nelvana - 1979

And you can watch it on YouTube! I won't; I prefer my extremely hazy memories.
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A promotional image from a very strange 70s animated special called "Romie-0 and Julie-8," in which Shakespeare's play is remade with robot lovers in an all-mechanical future.

I feel a twinge of nostalgic sadness for the demise of the Canadian animation studio Nelvana. Of course mostly for the well-known stuff, but there's a part of me that especially loved the all-robot "Romie-0 and Julie-8" (being 4 years old will do that).

#Sleep #4 by @zandercannon.bsky.social. After the end of issue 3, you though Jon permanently solved the monster problem. After reading issue 4, you know the problem is worst. Tabby has a plan to try and stop it. I noticed each cover has a letter "ACIE", I wonder if #5 is "S"? Recommend.