Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06WW7HLY9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945–1971.. Brannon Costello is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University, where he teaches and writes about comics and southern literature
He is the author of Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945–1971.. About the AuthorBrannon Costello is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University, where he teaches and writes about comics and southern literature
It examines the ways in which Chaykin’s work, which demands a mode of reading that is alive to the distinct affordances of the comics medium and the complexities of its history, reveals the limitations of valuing comics narrowly as "literature.". Chaykin remains a vital and prolific artist today, yet despite the original and influential nature of his comics, he has received scant critical attention. Acclaimed (and often controversial) projects such as American Flagg!, Time2, and Black Kiss turned action-packed adventure tales of mainstream comics into a platform for personal expression, political engagement, and aesthetic experimentation. Spanning Chaykin’s career from his 1980s heyday to the contemporary period, the first book-length study of Chaykin’s work locates the unique power of Chaykin’s comics in their inventive explorations of the question of authenticity in popular culture. Neon Revelations tracks the groundbreaking career of comics innovator and iconoclastic auteur Howard Chaykin and the impact of his work on the transformation of American comic books in the 1980s