Is that a light at the end of the tunnelƒ or the gunpowder flash inside a DOUBLE BARREL!?

In Zander's HECK, our hero sets out to get his best friend backƒ even if it kills him! It's a titanic battle that'll blow your mind and break your heart. Then, in Kevin's CRATER XV, Captain Sztab risks everything for a chance of reaching space, while the real astronauts are having second thoughtsƒ and Army's beloved Pravda may be hiding a dark secret! Meanwhile, Tim Sievert's CLANDESTINAUTS face giant lizards and double wizards! Plus Zander explains why you don't want your characters to be like Bruce Wayne, and moreƒ Hey, the intro comic alone is worth the price of admission, just to see Kevin and Zander with handlebar mustaches!

Time to reload: DOUBLE BARREL is back! Zander's hero HECK begins his horrific journey through the underworld, with faithful sidekick Elliot at his side... but they'll be reminded of some painful truths about themselves they'd rather not face. Meanwhile in Kevin's CRATER XV, the Royal Canadian Arctic Navy recruits Army Shanks to sneak aboard an ominous Soviet ship... before it launches a rocket into space! But can he focus on the mission when a pretty face from his past enters the picture? Plus BONUS short comics from both artists, Zander's tips for hand-lettering comics, your letters, and more! Saddle up with the Cannons for another dose of digital adventure! THIS is what comics are all about! THIS... is DOUBLE BARREL!

Wherever you see trouble there-'ll... always be a DOUBLE BARREL!

In HECK, our hero finally finds the man Amy sent him to the underworld to find -- but what could Amy's message to him possibly be, to be worth all this anguish? The answer may blow your mind. Meanwhile in CRATER XV, Army Shanks and Pravda visit the orphanage where they grew up, to look for long-buried secrets -- and the High Arctic League makes a last-ditch effort to assemble a vessel that can beat Siberia to the moon!

Plus: Penny from the Front, Jin (age 4) flexes his creative muscles, Kevin debuts his curiously horrific mini-comic "The Horse Head Killer," and walks you through creating your own mini-comic!

"Wherever you see trouble there-'ll... always be a DOUBLE BARREL!

In HECK, our hero finally finds the man Amy sent him to the underworld to find -- but what could Amy's message to him possibly be, to be worth all this anguish? The answer may blow your mind. Meanwhile in CRATER XV, Army Shanks and Pravda visit the orphanage where they grew up, to look for long-buried secrets -- and the High Arctic League makes a last-ditch effort to assemble a vessel that can beat Siberia to the moon!

Plus: Penny from the Front, Jin (age 4) flexes his creative muscles, Kevin debuts his curiously horrific mini-comic ""The Horse Head Killer,"" and walks you through creating your own mini-comic!"

WELCOME ABOARD the next generation of pulp adventure! Acclaimed cartoonists Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon have joined forces to launch a new kind of adventure comic: a digital comics magazine, serializing two massive graphic novels and packed with extras, delivered to your screen for $1.99 per month.
Two Cannons. Two comics. Two dollars. DOUBLE BARREL!
It all begins in this 122-page double-stuffed first issue. Zander Cannon launches HECK (the story of a washed-up high school football hero who discovers a portal to the underworld), while Kevin Cannon presents CRATER XV (following the smash success of his first graphic novel FAR ARDEN with an all-new saga of that crusty Arctic sea-dog Army Shanks).
In a world of thin plotting, price-gouging, and trade-waiting, two cartoonists are here to fly the flag for two-fisted action and page-turning thrills! Grab DOUBLE BARREL today and load up on adventure!

Roll up, roll up! It's time to roll out another issue of DOUBLE BARREL! And boy, is this one a doozy. Zander's HECK saga hits its most incredible "holy #@$%" moment yet, as Heck and Elliott take a ride with Hell's horrific winged stinger-beast, Geryon! Meanwhile in Kevin's CRATER XV, Wendy learns more about Canada's space program, long abandoned -- or is it? -- and Shanks desperately races to keep his lost love Pravda from becoming a feast for a ferocious walrus! PLUS: more Penny from the Front, Jin (age 4) deals with getting sick, and Zander contributes a particularly insightful essay on using page layouts for effective storytelling.

Ready, aim, download! That's right, DOUBLE BARREL is back in action with a new issue!

Zander's hero HECK faces the legendary Minotaur for his biggest fight yet, while the series continues to grow in emotional richness and venture into genuine tragedy. Then in Kevin's CRATER XV, Army's amnesiac crush Pravda is about to be carried off by the Russians, while he and the High Arctic League are trapped in an impregnable blockhouse... and Wendy is getting suspicious of her new friends. PLUS: Jin (age 4) threatens to spank trees on the butt, guest Steven Stwalley presents a zombie-walk gone wrong in "The Dead Living," and the Cannons team up for an exhaustive guide to surviving 24-Hour Comic Day

Man the harpoons! A new DOUBLE BARREL has surfaced!

First, Zander Cannon's HECK enters the city of Dis, the underworld's inner zone where the really bad folks dwell. In fact, some would say he belongs there... Meanwhile in Kevin Cannon's CRATER XV, Soviet Captain Sztab reveals his mad plan to take over the WORLD!! ...sort of. But how can he be stopped if our hero Shanks is sunk in a depressive stupor? PLUS: more "Penny from the Front," more adventures of Jin (age 4), and tips from Kevin on "sketch tourism"! All that AND the winners of our first contest? Better download DOUBLE BARREL #4 today!

At long last, my little pellets, we've reached the end of this DOUBLE BARREL! Time to spray out into the world.

BUT FIRST! Zander's HECK puts the pieces together and gets some bittersweet closure. THEN: Who is Pravda really? What does Captain Sztab truly want? Is anybody actually going to make it to space alive?? Kevin weaves all his million plotlines together at the long-hidden launch site in CRATER XV! Meanwhile, in Tim Sievert's CLANDESTINAUTS, our party of chatty adventurers has been scattered to the four windsƒ but not for long! Dig the epic conclusion! Plus Zander's tips on how to write scripts that artists will love to draw! All this and more in the thrilling season finale of DOUBLE BARREL -- climb in!

Mamas, hide your babies, 'cause the Cannons are back and firing on all cylinders!DOUBLE BARREL #3 is an incredible 116 pages of action, drama, and comic-book passion. Zander Cannon descends to the sixth chapter of HECK and finds it full of WRATH -- and some long-repressed memories! Kevin Cannon presents a huge chunk (over 50 pages) of CRATER XV -- the plot threads are multiplying like rabbits, as we're starting to see just how huge a mess Army Shanks has gotten himself into...Meanwhile both Cannons contribute a pile of bonus content, including Kevin's "Penny from the Front," Zander's hilarious "Master of Feng Shui," more True Tales of Jin (age 4), and a great essay from Zander about the storytelling masterclass that is STAR WARS.More fun than a barrel of monkeys? Of course it is -- it's DOUBLE BARREL!

This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing covers what first-year college writers need to know — the writing process, critical analysis, argument, research, revision, and presentation — in a visual format that brings rhetorical concepts to life through examples ranging from Aristotle to YouTube.

WELCOME ABOARD the next generation of pulp adventure! Acclaimed cartoonists Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon have joined forces to launch a new kind of adventure comic: a digital comics magazine, serializing two massive graphic novels and packed with extras, delivered to your screen for $1.99 per month.
Two Cannons. Two comics. Two dollars. DOUBLE BARREL!
It all begins in this 122-page double-stuffed first issue. Zander Cannon launches HECK (the story of a washed-up high school football hero who discovers a portal to the underworld), while Kevin Cannon presents CRATER XV (following the smash success of his first graphic novel FAR ARDEN with an all-new saga of that crusty Arctic sea-dog Army Shanks).
In a world of thin plotting, price-gouging, and trade-waiting, two cartoonists are here to fly the flag for two-fisted action and page-turning thrills! Grab DOUBLE BARREL today and load up on adventure!

Straight from the pages of the hit digital series DOUBLE BARREL!

It's his own personal Hell.

After the funeral of his estranged father, faded hometown hero Hector "Heck" Hammarskj_ld finds himself the new owner of the old man's house... and inside it, a portal to the underworld! With few other prospects on the horizon, Heck goes into business settling inheritance disputes by contacting the recently deceased, accompanied by his faithful sidekick Elliot. But when an old flame knocks on their door with an important message for her late husband, Heck and Elliot embark on an terrifying journey down into the nine circles, braving the horrors of Hell for an assignment that will reveal more than they ever imagined.

Award-winning cartoonist Zander Cannon (The Replacement God, Top 10, Smax, The Stuff of Life) collects his serial from the hit digital magazine Double Barrel into his long-awaited first graphic novel: a story of memory, friendship, and regret, where the past is dead and buried... but not out of reach.

"One amazing slice of storytelling magic." -- Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"One of the best graphic novels of the year."-- The AV Club

"Cleverly plotted ... Cannon is one of the comics world's most energetic storytellers, and his minimalist artwork, far from cramping its subject matter, has its own eye-catching charm."-- Carl Hays, Booklist

"Riotous, exciting, and ridiculous."-- New York Magazine

"CannonÍs graphic novel is an adventure, a comedy, a mystery, and a tragedy ... What begins as a slightly silly lark becomes an engaging, even haunting story about desire and loss."-- Karin L. Kross, Bookforum

"Cleverly weaving together his extraordinary cast of characters through past histories and present events, the author neatly ties everything up in a satisfying ending. The images in each panel skillfully match the tone of the story and beautifully support the characterization of individuals and events as they unfold. Cannon has proved himself to be a riveting storyteller with this fast-paced adventure that features polar-bear fights, kidnapping, conspiracy, misinterpretations, and double-crosses."-- Lara McAllister, School Library Journal

"As the entwined pasts of Army, his ex, her current husband, a college couple and an orphan bent on revenge for his fatherÍs murder are revealed, entwining pasts become clear and the full range of this engrossing story is revealed."-- Publishers Weekly

"Kevin CannonÍs Far Arden is an unassuming series of masterstrokes ... His spindly post-clear-line characters may act like expressive marionettes but they are multi-faceted once you get past CannonÍs hyper-active narrative pace."-- Kyle Lemmon, Under the Radar

"Kevin Cannon is spinning one huge, huge yarn here; a classic adventure story that delights in ridiculous set-ups, far-fetched schemes, hidden treasure, mysterious strangers, outlandish characters and ridiculously contrived threats leading to even more ridiculously contrived rescues. Everything in Far Arden connects, every character is there for some reason implicit to the simple plot of one sailor attempting to reach the mythical Far Arden, a tropical island paradise in the middle of the barren and desolate Canadian Arctic. And itÍs a great, great adventure."-- Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International

"Starting off madcap, slapdash, and more than a little ridiculous, somehow, over the course of roughly 375 pages, it transforms into a sad, thoughtful, even stirring book."-- Jillian Steinhauer, The Daily Cross Hatch

"Far Arden is one of the most unruliest and unpredictable adventure comics IÍve read in a long while, and yet the story weaves itself into a complex and consistent whole ... the best of two worlds: the purely spontaneous burst of comics creation and the carefully constructed adventure saga."-- Dave Baxter, Broken Frontier

"The character of Army Shanks is one that readers can really sink their teeth into. ƒ He's a man with all the personality conflicts and defects and emotional confusion that make us human. And even when he surprises you by bringing a dead fish to a party at the governor's palace, it doesn't seem at all out of character."-- Sean Kleefeld, Kleefeld on Comics

Meet Army Shanks -- crusty old sea dog and legendary brawler of the high Arctic seas! He's got just one mission: to find the mythical island paradise known as Far Arden, which lies hidden (so they say) in the wintry oceans of the far North. But there's more than just water standing between Shanks and his goal: he'll have to contend with circus performers, adorable orphans, heinous villains, bitter ex-lovers, well-meaning undergraduates, and the full might of the Royal Canadian Arctic Navy! Not to mention he's not so sure how to get to Far Arden in the first place...

In his first solo graphic novel, Kevin Cannon (THE STUFF OF LIFE, T-MINUS) proves himself a master spinner of yarns. FAR ARDEN is an epic journey through a world not quite our own, written and drawn with strokes bold and swift. As readers hurtle toward the stunning conclusion, Cannon assembles countless details, characters, and relentless plot twists into an astonishing whole far greater than the sum of its parts. Thrilling, eccentric, lusty, genuinely moving, and often hilarious (with sound effects that alone are worth the price of admission), FAR ARDEN may be the best adventure comic you'll read all year.

Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise respond to a distress call and find a terribly wounded scientist aboard a marooned ship. While evaluating the planet below (and its two warring nations) for possible Federation membership, Picard discovers to his horror that the survivor of the disaster is foreseeing his death. Written by Eisner-nominated writer Zander Cannon (Top Ten).

Straight from the pages of the hit digital series DOUBLE BARREL!

You've never seen a Cold War like this! In CRATER XV, the follow-up to 2009's Eisner-nominated FAR ARDEN, Kevin Cannon weaves together an intoxicating tale of swashbuckling adventure, abandoned moon bases, bloodthirsty walruses, rogue astronauts, two-faced femme fatales, sailboat chases, Siberian pirates, international Arctic politics, and a gaggle of horny orphans. Mixed up in all of this are Army Shanks, our salty sea dog still reeling from a devastating loss, and Wendy Byrd, a plucky teenager who wants nothing more than a one-way ticket off the face of the Earth. For mystery, thrills, and Arctic chills, set a course for CRATER XV!

Is that a light at the end of the tunnelƒ or the gunpowder flash inside a DOUBLE BARREL!?

In Zander's HECK, our hero sets out to get his best friend backƒ even if it kills him! It's a titanic battle that'll blow your mind and break your heart. Then, in Kevin's CRATER XV, Captain Sztab risks everything for a chance of reaching space, while the real astronauts are having second thoughtsƒ and Army's beloved Pravda may be hiding a dark secret! Meanwhile, Tim Sievert's CLANDESTINAUTS face giant lizards and double wizards! Plus Zander explains why you don't want your characters to be like Bruce Wayne, and moreƒ Hey, the intro comic alone is worth the price of admission, just to see Kevin and Zander with handlebar mustaches!

Time once again to go over the falls... in a DOUBLE BARREL!

In Zander's story, HECK continues his plunge into the depths, only to run into the last person he expected: the man who got him into all this! Over in Kevin's half, Wendy learns the incredible secret of CRATER XV, while Army is reunited with his love... but a new discovery may kick the the entire story into a whole new gear!

PLUS: thoughtful letters, killer fan-art, more Penny, Jin goes bowling, and an inking tutorial from Zander!

At long last, my little pellets, we've reached the end of this DOUBLE BARREL! Time to spray out into the world.

BUT FIRST! Zander's HECK puts the pieces together and gets some bittersweet closure. THEN: Who is Pravda really? What does Captain Sztab truly want? Is anybody actually going to make it to space alive?? Kevin weaves all his million plotlines together at the long-hidden launch site in CRATER XV! Meanwhile, in Tim Sievert's CLANDESTINAUTS, our party of chatty adventurers has been scattered to the four windsƒ but not for long! Dig the epic conclusion! Plus Zander's tips on how to write scripts that artists will love to draw! All this and more in the thrilling season finale of DOUBLE BARREL -- climb in!

"Wherever you see trouble there-'ll... always be a DOUBLE BARREL!

In HECK, our hero finally finds the man Amy sent him to the underworld to find -- but what could Amy's message to him possibly be, to be worth all this anguish? The answer may blow your mind. Meanwhile in CRATER XV, Army Shanks and Pravda visit the orphanage where they grew up, to look for long-buried secrets -- and the High Arctic League makes a last-ditch effort to assemble a vessel that can beat Siberia to the moon!

Plus: Penny from the Front, Jin (age 4) flexes his creative muscles, Kevin debuts his curiously horrific mini-comic ""The Horse Head Killer,"" and walks you through creating your own mini-comic!"