Breakthrough: Life on the Brink TP

Breakthrough: Life on the Brink is a metafictional memoir told through Christopher Fink's own drawn diary. Awakening in a desert, he finds his fictional character beside him, prompting questions about reality, memory, and the lines between creator and creation. Built on a SF framework, it weaves an eco-feminist future's spark with the long-lost indie classic Leopold & Brink into a personal reckoning with loss, art, and healing. Begun during the 2020 lockdowns, the book deepens as Fink confronts a brain cancer diagnosis mid-project, turning tragedy into material for catharsis and renewal. The work uses memory, humor, and slipstream narrative in a seamless stream of consciousness, mixing youth misadventures and the daily grind of a working artist. It's an intimate, audacious celebration of comics, film, and TV that shaped him, and the adults who didn't.

Who might be interested in reading?

• Readers who enjoy memoir-driven graphic novels that blend memory with imagination
• Fans of metafiction and slipstream storytelling that blurs creator and character
• Readers drawn to stories about healing, resilience, and personal reinvention
• People who love indie comics and the cultural touchstones that shape a creator