Graphic Novels > Fantagraphics Underground

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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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Other Details:

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Product Type: Graphic Novels
• Issue Number: 1
• Cover Number: 0
• Ratio: 1
• Price: 30.0
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• UPC:
• ISNM: 9798875002182
• EAN: 979887500218252500
• Mature: Y
• Adult: N
• Writer: Christopher Fink
• Artist: Christopher Fink
• Cover Artist: Christopher Fink
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• Lunar Series Code: 0
• Lunar Code: 1125FU0719
• Lunar Ship Date: 2026-05-19
• Lunar FOC Date: 2026-03-16
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