{"product_id":"breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-74023","title":"Breakthrough: Life on the Brink","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreakthrough is a tragicomic memoir detailing the author's search for belonging while navigating inadequate caregivers, romantic misadventures, the looping path of a career artist, and a terminal brain tumor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Fink has just awoken in the desert. Soaked, disoriented, the first person he sees is his own fictional character. What is reality? What does an eco-feminist movement from the future -- and a long-abandoned but never-forgotten indie comic, Leopold \u0026amp; Brink -- have to do with his predicament? From this SF framework emerges a metafictional memoir, as epic and intimate as life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbarking in earnest with the onset of the 2020 lockdowns, Fink's years-long journey of graphic healing hit an unexpected detour when he received a brain cancer diagnosis midway through constructing this book. Not to be deterred, the tragedy and comedy of life become tools to break new liberative ground, a lifetime of drawing conjures fresh and playful visual expressions to compliment his stream of consciousness style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVonnegut-esque slipstreams of memory weave together tumultuous youth, romantic misadventures, and the looping pathways of a working artist, in a tapestry of loss and longing. Buoyed by the ephemera of yesteryear, this is an ode to the comics, film, and TV that raised him, and the adults who didn't. A saga of catharsis and reconciliation, Breakthrough: Life on the Brink is a story to live by.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52175800369450,"sku":"74023","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/Cover_5f4f8ce8-312c-4bb8-8603-df1406614088.jpg?v=1785968259","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-74023","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}