Weekly Pull List Comics Beta
Log in Sign up
Log in Sign up
BREAKTHROUGH LIFE ON THE BRINK TP (MR) - Weekly Pull List
Breakthrough: Life on the Brink TP

BREAKTHROUGH LIFE ON THE BRINK TP (MR)

Cover of BREAKTHROUGH LIFE ON THE BRINK TP (MR) Fantagraphics Underground
Cover price $30.00
On shelves Ordering closed
Final order cutoff
December 15, 2025 256 days ago
On sale
January 28, 2026 212 days ago

Sign in to add this issue to your pull list or save it to your favorites.

Log in Create an account

Credits

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 & 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.

Details

Issue
#1
Format
SOFTCOVER
Rating
M-Mature
Distributor
LunarDistribution
ISBN
9798875002182
Product code
1125FU0719
On shelves

More from Fantagraphics Underground this week

Other titles from this publisher reaching shops in the next seven days.

View all