{"product_id":"breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-paperback","title":"Breakthrough: Life on the Brink - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Fink\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris 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, \u003cem\u003eLeopold \u0026amp; Brink\u003c\/em\u003e -- have to do with his predicament? From this SF framework emerges a metafictional memoir, as epic and intimate as life itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbarking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVonnegut-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, \u003cem\u003eBreakthrough: Life on the Brink\u003c\/em\u003e is a story to live by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 10.4 x 7.65 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43044493426765,"sku":"9798875002182","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/5252\/5389\/files\/qjo-ZAgTEh9798875002182.webp?v=1779879165","url":"https:\/\/ishookcomics.com\/products\/breakthrough-life-on-the-brink-paperback","provider":"iShook Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}