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Kevin Cannon

Author of T-Minus: The Race to the Moon

13+ Works 689 Members 42 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Kevin Canon

Disambiguation Notice:

Kevin and Zander Cannon have a shared pseudonym of Big Time Attic. Kevin and Zander ARE NOT RELATED.

Image credit: Kevin Cannon at San Diego Comic Con 2009. Photo credit: Parka Blogs.

Series

Works by Kevin Cannon

Associated Works

Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth (2011) — Illustrator — 164 copies
Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology (2012) — Contributor — 18 copies
Breathe, Ollie! (2021) — Illustrator, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Cannon, Kevin
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Education
Grinnell College
Organizations
Big Time Attic
Disambiguation notice
Kevin and Zander Cannon have a shared pseudonym of Big Time Attic. Kevin and Zander ARE NOT RELATED.

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Reviews

I found this one a bit hard to follow at times, but as with all Jim Ottaviani books it was quite enjoyable.
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lemontwist | 6 other reviews | Sep 4, 2023 |
A gift from someone I've never met. Brilliant adventure, great sound effects. Looking forward to reading the earlier story next.
 
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6loss | 1 other review | Nov 7, 2019 |
Good romp, think I preferred Crater XV which I read first - there were a few too many characters at the start to keep track of here, and a couple of deus ex machina, but as with Crater, some great storytelling, lovable characters, and cracking action twists.
 
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6loss | 3 other reviews | Nov 7, 2019 |
Jim Ottaviani and Big Time Attic’s Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology focuses on the two titular paleontologists, their rivalry, and the ethically-dubious practices of government-funded scientists in the late nineteenth century. They portray Cope as ambitious, but put-upon and Marsh as something of a huckster among his fellow academics; an interesting choice as Marsh frequently encountered P.T. Barnum, as Ottaviani and Big Time Attic depict. The artist Charles R. Knight, who was the artist of choice for depicting Dinosaurs and their reptilian contemporaries, serves as something of a middle ground for the two extremes of Cope and Marsh, while allowing the authors to introduce other people who played a role in early paleontology.

Like Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb or his Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, Ottaviani and Big Time Attic’s book offers a good introduction to the subject of science in the Gilded Age for both high school and introductory college readers as well as general science enthusiasts. Though the book fictionalizes some events for dramatic effect, Ottaviani and Big Time Attic helpfully include a “Fact or Fiction?” section where they offer additional details about the facts and discuss where they fictionalized events as well as how those literary licenses were based on actual events. The book closes with a list of further reading for those interested in learning more about the subjects discussed. Educators, students, and casual readers will gain a greater insight into the world of the Gilded Age through the events Ottaviani and Big Time Attic portray and from how they recreate the language of the time, both in direct quotes and through the font choices for speech balloons.
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DarthDeverell | 6 other reviews | Dec 24, 2018 |

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Works
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