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KENK humanizes Toronto’s most notorious bike-thief without apologising for him
by Dan
Graphica / August 16, 2010
Canadian author, journalist, activist and blogger Cory Doctorow recently shared his memories of Igor Kenk and his Queen West store in a review of KENK: A Graphic Portrait for Boing Boing:
I've known Igor since I was 18 years old, and truth be told, I found him confusing, likable, maddening, hilarious, charismatic, criminal, and even honourable after his own fashion. The Slovenian entrepreneur and bike-mechanic was a packrat (Kenk implies that he is a pathological hoarder, and I think this fits) and a seamy, rough-and-ready type who seemed to have stepped out of the pages of a Bruce Sterling story. He occupied a succession of shops at the western end of Queen Street in Toronto, long before the neighbourhood became fashionable, back when it was a depressed and seedy little strip in the middle of nowhere.
Read the full review here.
