{"product_id":"1125fu0719-breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-tp-1","title":"Breakthrough: Life On The Brink TPB (Mature)","description":"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 \u0026amp; 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.","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46226885542085,"sku":"1125FU0719","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2448\/6401\/files\/202510-0000514184.jpg?v=1778858909","url":"https:\/\/rick-s-comic-city.myshopify.com\/products\/1125fu0719-breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-tp-1","provider":"Rick’s Comic City","version":"1.0","type":"link"}