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This fine work places Howard Chaykin and his boundary-breaking and controversial canon of work where it belongs--at the heart of serious analysis and study.--Matt Fraction, writer of Hawkeye and Sex Criminals Howard Chaykin's comic-book oeuvre challenges us in its aesthetic range--from conventional and disposable to groundbreaking and essential--and in its content, which can be scathingly satirical, joyously pulpy, narratively complex, shamelessly sentimental, and aggressively pornographic, sometimes all at once. It takes a brave and intelligent critic to take him on, but he's found an ideal reader in Brannon Costello. Well written, nuanced, and insightful, this superb book not only helps us to understand the nature of Chaykin's achievement, but to see his disparate body of work as parts of a whole.--Ben Saunders, coeditor of Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby Costello fearlessly fills a gap in comics criticism, examining a neglected artist--innovator, satirist, provocateur--who doesn't neatly fit into any category but whose work is all the more important for that. A smart, challenging analysis of smart, challenging, even transgressive comics, Neon Visions tackles hard questions of postmodernity, artifice, and style while opening new horizons for comics studies.--Charles Hatfield, author of Alternative Comics and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby

This fine work places Howard Chaykin and his boundary-breaking and controversial canon of work where it belongs--at the heart of serious analysis and study.--Matt Fraction, writer of Hawkeye and Sex Criminals Costello fearlessly fills a gap in comics criticism, examining a neglected artist--innovator, satirist, provocateur--who doesn't neatly fit into any category but whose work is all the more important for that. A smart, challenging analysis of smart, challenging, even transgressive comics, Neon Visions tackles hard questions of postmodernity, artifice, and style while opening new horizons for comics studies.--Charles Hatfield, author of Alternative Comics and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Howard Chaykin's comic-book oeuvre challenges us in its aesthetic range--from conventional and disposable to groundbreaking and essential--and in its content, which can be scathingly satirical, joyously pulpy, narratively complex, shamelessly sentimental, and aggressively pornographic, sometimes all at once. It takes a brave and intelligent critic to take him on, but he's found an ideal reader in Brannon Costello. Well written, nuanced, and insightful, this superb book not only helps us to understand the nature of Chaykin's achievement, but to see his disparate body of work as parts of a whole.--Ben Saunders, coeditor of Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby

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Brannon Costello, associate professor of English at Louisiana State University, is the editor of Howard Chaykin: Conversations and Conversations with Michael Chabon; and, with Qiana J. Whitted, coeditor of Comics and the U.S. South.

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