Cannon Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Wallace Wood Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1606997025 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Thanks to his (literally) stellar work on the EC Comics line, Wallace Allan Wood (1927–1981) is widely considered America’s greatest science fiction cartoonist, but he was also one of the brightest lights of the early MAD comic (“Superduperman!”) and, later, a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist/publisher with his magazine witzend.
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- Series: Cannon
- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Fantagraphics; 1 edition (April 5, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1606997025
- ISBN-13: 978-1606997024
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I'll just say this up front -- this isn't a thinking man's comic. In fact, the lead character's name of Cannon is perfect, because that's about how subtle this strip is.
The stories and characters are fairly straight-ahead and simple, the type of fare you'd see in any classic action film from the late 70s through the early 90s. Cannon is the kind of character that Chuck Norris or Arnold Schwarzenegger would have felt at home playing. In fact, he makes Conan the Barbarian seem thoughtful and introspective by comparison. The strip reads like a James Bond movie directed by Russ Meyer, turned up to eleven -- tons of two-fisted action and fully nude women on nearly every other page that would probably get a 007 picture a NC-17 rating.
But as I read through this hefty volume, it seems to be part of the nutty charm of this series. The creators present the material in an unapologetic, mature-of-fact manner, without a hint of self-aware shame in the over-the-top exploitative nature of the strip. It's almost as if they decided to distill the basest, most primal appeal of the classic pulp adventure strips into comic strip form -- the audience wants sex and violence, so let's give them that in spades.
Still, the work stops short of being pornographic (in my opinion -- I'm sure more socially conservative or religious folks may disagree). Nudity and the before and after moments of sex are the limit -- we don't actually see genitals or intercourse taking place, thankfully. And while the violence is swift, brutal and plentiful, we don't see blood, guts, or gore -- it's about as graphic as something like Rambo II.
That all said, there is one aspect of this strip I find distasteful and that is the numerous allusions to rape.
Wally Wood created the Cannon spy adventure strip for the Army's Overseas Weekly newspaper. Since people in the army were adults, he could draw a strip containing adult elements (that is to say, naked chicks) and not worry about the censorship that plagued comic books and newspaper comic strips back in the day. So Cannon did things that made James Bond look like a sissy, and was the toughest MF the commies ever ran into (remember, this was done during the cold war years, when the greatest threat America had, was communism). For the first months Woody really outdid himself, as it features some of his best artwork ever. By the end of the strip's run though, Woody relies mostly on paste-up jobs (sometimes of his own work), and very contrasted photocopies of cars and buildings that look like an inked drawing. Towards the end, you can see that his heart wasn't really into it anymore.
The sad thing, for most of us Woody fans, was that to see this particular work you had to be in the army, as there was no other way of seeing it. Luckily for me I lived in France back then, and Woody's work was being reprinted over there thanks to Fershid Bharucha who was a big fan of some American comic book artists (such as Woody, Corben and Berni Wrightson), and published most of their work in Europe (well, at least in France). So I actually knew Cannon and Sally Forth before many other American comic book fans did. That said, when Cannon was finally collected for the first time as a softcover book by Fantagraphics, it was in its original black and white (in France it was colored) and in a rather large size (10,5 x 13').
That was not too long ago, as the book came out in 2001.
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