Zander Cannon's KAIJUMAX

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Anonymous asked:

Hi Zander! My name is Duy Tano and for the past 10 years I've maintained a small comics commentary website called The Comics Cube. I've recently opened a YouTube channel and am hoping to interview creators for it. My most recent episode is with Gene Ha and I thought I could ask you if you would be game to sit down for an interview? I would love to ask you about your career, including Top 10, Smax, and Heck and Kaijumax! Please let me know! Thanks!

I’d love to. I’m sorry this has taken so long to get back to you. If you’d like to talk more, please email me at zandercannon@gmail.com. Thanks!

solidstrider asked:

A big fan of Kaijumax and Smax, Mr. Cannon! I have a 100% nerdy question: How do the "beings of Light" feel when their merged human counterparts like Dr. Zhang and Jin-Wook do less than heroic things in their giant forms?

Okay, so I’ve established that there is a Land of Light-like place where the Ultraman-like beings come from, but also that, essentially, when humans size up into space superheroes or whatever that they are still their exact selves. In my internal logic of the story – which is gleefully inconsistent, of course – the ultra-forms are really more like uniforms, or even riot gear that are handed out at orientation, and that any backstory for a particular ultra-character is awkwardly shoehorned in on a case-by-case basis (e.g. the Robinsons).

That was the 100% nerdy response, and now my glib and dismissive response: Oh, they’re horrified.

Anonymous asked:

Thanks for creating Kaijumax!!

You are welcome. It has been such a fun time to make something that is simultaneously so grim and so silly, and that has basically made it impossible to do something that is too absurd to fit into the premise.

Thank you for reading it.

Anonymous asked:

How do you feel about King of the Monsters?

I can’t believe that I still haven’t seen it. I was trying to coordinate going to see it with 2 friends and four children, and it just didn’t work out this weekend. Curses! 

All the talk about how there aren’t enough people and way too much monster-fighting has suggested, however, that this movie will be EXTREMELY my jam.

Anonymous asked:

How are you doing? Did something happen for the second issue to get delayed? Is the comic safe?

It’s safe; at least as safe as any mid list comic. I just decided that I wasn’t going to work myself to death over the summer (unlike the last 3 summers) and started getting kind of fussy with the writing. I’m getting back on track now.

Anonymous asked:

Is it a coincidence that the first issue taking place in a female kaiju prison is coming out during pride month?

I’m afraid it is. I wish I had the ability to be agile enough to release books during auspicious times, but pretty much every new Kaijumax season launches in April, May, or June. But readers who are looking for some LGBTQ+ content may indeed enjoy this season.

This week is the release of KAIJUMAX SEASON 3: KING OF THE MONSTAS. Initially, I thought I would put the women’s prison in Season 3, but I wanted to go back to the original characters and reorient them after a plot-heavy, action-y second book. (I’m...

This week is the release of KAIJUMAX SEASON 3: KING OF THE MONSTAS. 

Initially, I thought I would put the women’s prison in Season 3, but I wanted to go back to the original characters and reorient them after a plot-heavy, action-y second book. (I’m working on the women’s prison now, in season 4).

I really enjoyed going back to the original characters I created and remixing them slightly, making some more major, some more minor, and exploring the gang relationships a tiny bit more. Taking two characters (Whoofy and The Creature from Devil’s Creek) that had been mainly punchlines or misery subplots and pushing them to the point where they had to overcome their passivity and take back a little control over their lives. I intended to make something of the idea that stories continue after the flashy parts, and that the small characters are worth following as well.

One issue (#4) has the framing device of a rap musical (”King of the Monstas”, a retelling of the plot of Gojira, while strenuously avoiding mentioning any character names), which is great fun and made me realize that writing in rhyming couplets is a huge pain in the ass. Fun though. If you’ve watched Gojira as many times as I have, you may find some odd and hyperspecific references to the film.

The other thing that was a lot of fun to go into was the nature of The Creature of Devil’s Creek, here revealed to be named Daniel. His mother (a Puritan woman) and his father (Satan, or to be more specific, Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies) allowed me to go into weird occult stuff as a fun side story to all the tokusatsu characters.

So check it out at bookstores or at the library (or at comic book stores next week) and if the spirit moves you, please leave a review or a rating for it on Amazon or Goodreads. Reviews (good and bad) really help the visibility of the book.

In the meantime, I will leave you with this epic goodreads review: 

“…this book is so weird. There is satanism, drugs, graphic violence, and all that while presenting cartoon/kid like illustration. This is not a book for children!! Be aware!” 

biggrimzilla asked:

I was just thinking of the tiny kaiju like Fairy Mothra and your wicked villain Grubzo and that was making me wonder if they have more respected roles outside Kaijumax for being able to "fit" into human sized society more easily.

My thought on that is that they would be welcome in a probationary way; they would have to fit certain stereotypes in a non-threatening way. They’d probably be considered pretty “cool” if they behaved just so (flying around? breathing a little bit of fire? Very cool.) But human society would likely never see them as anything but monsters. 

There is a coming plotline in season 4 about a main character’s (also megasized) husband who has a job on the outside and – because he fits the mold of the benevolent kaiju – is celebrated, well paid, and severely limited in the sort of things he can do. He is also fantastically corrupt and plays the system like a fiddle.