The Story
BREAKTHROUGH LIFE ON THE BRINK TP (MR)
(W) CHRISTOPHER FINK (A) CHRISTOPHER FINK (C) CHRISTOPHER FINK
FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND
StockID: 165692 SKU: 1125FU0719
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.
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BREAKTHROUGH LIFE ON THE BRINK TP (MR)
(W) CHRISTOPHER FINK (A) CHRISTOPHER FINK (C) CHRISTOPHER FINK
FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND
StockID: 165692 SKU: 1125FU0719
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.
