Breakthrough: Life on the Brink - Couverture souple

Fink, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798875002182

Editeur : Fantagraphics Underground - FU Press, 2026

Synopsis

Breakthrough 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. 

Chris 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 & Brink ― have to do with his predicament? From this SF framework emerges a metafictional memoir, as epic and intimate as life itself.

Embarking 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.

Vonnegut-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.

Full-color illustrations throughout

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Underground - FU Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798875002182
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible