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  | | Neon Visions The Comics of Howard Chaykin by Brannon Costello Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6832-5, ISBN: 0-8071-6832-7 "In the 1980s, Howard Chaykin broke new ground in American comic books with a series of formally innovative, iconoclastic works that turned the traditional action-adventure tales of mainstream comics into a platform for personal expression, political engagement, and aesthetic experimentation. His original creations American Flagg!, Time², and the notorious Black Kiss, along with his reshaping of familiar titles like The Shadow and Blackh ..." |
 | | Howard Chaykin(Reprint) Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series) by Brannon Costello Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2014 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-62846-177-0, ISBN: 1-62846-177-2 "One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His body of work is defined by the belief that comics can be a vehicle for sophisticated adult entertainment and for narratives that utilize the m ..." |
 | | Comics and the U.S. South(Reprint) by Brannon Costello, Qiana J. Whitted Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-945-4, ISBN: 1-61703-945-4 "Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman�s Metropolis or Chris Ware�s Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp gen ..." |
 | | Plantation Airs(1st Edition) Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971 (Southern Literary Studies) by Brannon Costello Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3270-8, ISBN: 0-8071-3270-5 "In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy -- especially, those of ra ..." |
 | | Jujitsu for Christ(Reprint) (Banner Books Series) by Jackson Butler, Brannon Costello, Jack. Butlet Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-738-2, ISBN: 1-61703-738-9 "Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roose ..." |
 | | Neon Visions The Comics of Howard Chaykin by Brannon Costello Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2017 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6664-2, ISBN: 0-8071-6664-2 "In the 1980s, Howard Chaykin broke new ground in American comic books with a series of formally innovative, iconoclastic works that turned the traditional action-adventure tales of mainstream comics into a platform for personal expression, political engagement, and aesthetic experimentation. His original creations American Flagg!, Time², and the notorious Black Kiss, along with his reshaping of familiar titles like The Shadow and Blackh ..." |
 | | Conversations with Michael Chabon(1st Edition) (Literary Conversations Series) by Brannon Costello, Michael Chabon Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2015 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-62846-233-3, ISBN: 1-62846-233-7 "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b. 1963) has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the most challenging literature should be a fundamentally pleasurable experience, Chabon has produced an astonishingly diverse body of work that ..." |
 | | Comics and the U.S. South(1st Edition) by Brannon Costello, Qiana J. Whitted Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-018-5, ISBN: 1-61703-018-X "Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman’s Metropolis or Chris Ware’s Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp gen ..." |
 | | Howard Chaykin Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series) by Brannon Costello, Howard V. Chaykin Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-975-6, ISBN: 1-60473-975-4 "One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His body of work is defined by the belief that comics can be a vehicle for sophisticated adult entertainment and for narratives that utilize the m ..." |
 | | Conversations with Comic Artists Ser. Howard Chaykin : Conversations by Howard V. Chaykin, Brannon Costello Digital, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-976-3, ISBN: 1-60473-976-2 "And if that's what's going to happen, then that's what's going to happen. I'm sorry, Gary, but that's life. Five or six months after Black Kiss started ap- pearing, I got a solicitation to work for a company, one of these new companies. This is the first thing to follow Black Kiss. It's an “in” comic book about a bar in which people come in and tell their sexual stories or whatever—work by guys who clearly have never had a date. Er ..." |
 | | The Other 1980s Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade by Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins 364 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7550-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7550-1 "Doug Moench left Marvel in a dispute with editor in chief Jim Shooter over the future of Master of Kung Fu. For a fuller account of this dispute, read Howe 256– 60. 4. As with other aspects of his career, Moench is remarkably consistent when ..." |
 | | The Other 1980s Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade by Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins 364 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7551-4, ISBN: 0-8071-7551-X "Most of the information here about Angel Love and Amethyst comes from interviews with Barbara Slate (on January 11, 2019) and Dan Mishkin (on January 21, 2019), respectively. I'm very grateful to them for their time and assistance, without ..." |
 | | Neon Visions The Comics of Howard Chaykin by Brannon Costello 392 Pages, Published 2017 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6807-3, ISBN: 0-8071-6807-6 "After this arc, Chaykin served as cowriter with Steven Grant, with art by Mark Badger and Randy Emberlin. Soon, Chaykin was gone even as cowriter. Grant handled writing chores on his own until he was replaced by J. M. DeMatteis. Inker Randy Emberlin departed as well, leaving Badger to deliver full art on his own. Badger, who eventually co-plotted the book with DeMatteis, sought to bring his own distinctive style to the series. In a ..." |
 | | Conversations with Michael Chabon by Brannon Costello 200 Pages, Published 2015 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-62674-669-5, ISBN: 1-62674-669-9 "So I wondered why con artists are so appealing? Chabon: Well, it has a lot to do with narrative, I think. A con is a story, and I like to try to find ways to tell as many stories as possible, or to find as many different possible outlets within one novel, say, for the narrative impulse to come out. Plot to me is the maybe the least interesting part of the job, although I try my best to come up with serviceable ones for my books. Th ..." |
 | | Southern Literary Studies Plantation Airs : Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945-1971 by Brannon Costello 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-3524-2, ISBN: 0-8071-3524-0 "Late in the novel Arvay returns to her hardscrabble hometown of Sawley to attend to her dying mother and to reconnect ... as Max Weber might have it, “rich” might refer to Jim's “market possibilities” and “noble” to his status or his style of life." |
 | | Comics and the U.S. South(1st Edition) by Brannon Costello, Qiana J. Whitted Digital, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-019-2, ISBN: 1-61703-019-8 "photographer Ted Jackson (presented on the website “Nieman Reports,” a component of Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism), I noticed two comments near the bottom of the page. Writing on 8 March 2009, “Aurora” asks for permission to use some of the photos for “an essay on Hurrican [sic] Katrina as a reflection of the reality of race and class in America”; in November, “Bruce Tuttle” responds, “Oh lawdy, oh lawdy! Have mercy on ..." |
 | | Conversations with Michael Chabon(Reprint) (Literary Conversations Series) by Brannon Costello Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0962-9, ISBN: 1-4968-0962-9 "Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b. 1963) has become one of contemporary literature’s most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the most challenging literature should be a fundamentally pleasurable experience, Chabon has produced an astonishingly diverse body of work that ..." |
 | | Neon Visions The Comics of Howard Chaykin by Brannon Costello 392 Pages, Published 2017 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6806-6, ISBN: 0-8071-6806-8 "In his “Lip Service” column that ran in each issue of Black Kiss, Vortex editor Lou Stathis mocked Groth for his apparent ... Groth wrote in to protest that the editors at Print were responsible for substituting “unnatural” for “oral” (“Lip Service”). 9. For an insightful examination of the relationship between Chaykin's depiction of sex and the ideological critique of ... Perhaps his immersion in a tradition in which the relations ..." |
 | | Conversations with Comic Artists Ser. Howard Chaykin : Conversations by Brannon Costello 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-62674-426-4, ISBN: 1-62674-426-2 "And if that's what's going to happen, then that's what's going to happen. I'm sorry, Gary, but that's life. Five or six months after Black Kiss started appearing, I got a solicitation to work for a company, one of these new companies. This is the first thing to follow Black Kiss. It's an “in” comic ... Eric Idle's “Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more,” is far too real a living icon for comic books. I'm really tired of ... HOWARD: I ..." |
 | | Southern Literary Studies Plantation Airs : Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971 by Brannon Costello 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4492-3, ISBN: 0-8071-4492-4 "7. The Last Gentleman. New York: Ballantine, 1966. 7. Love in the Ruins. New York: Ballantine, 1971. 7"Questions They Never Asked Me.” Signposts in a Strange Land. 1977. Ed. Patrick Samway. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991. 397-424. 7”Stoicism in the South.” Signposts in a Strange Land Ed. Patrick Samway. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991. 83-88. 7"Uncle Will." Signposts in a Strange Land Ed. Patrick Samway. New ..." |