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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.
KENK Event at the Toronto Reference Library
by Dan
Events + Graphica / July 26, 2010
Author Richard Poplak and illustrator Nick Marinkovich will be discussing KENK: A Graphic Portrait at the Toronto Reference Library on Saturday July 31st 2010. The event runs from 2:30-4:00 pm and entry is free.
KENK on QTV
by Dan
Graphica / July 16, 2010
Author Richard Poplak and Pop Sandbox publisher Alex Jansen talk to Jian Ghomeshi on QTV about KENK:
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Creases and Razor Blades
by Dan
Graphica / June 23, 2010
Illustrator Nick Marinkovich talks about his process and working on KENK: A Graphic Portrait in this great behind-the-scenes interview:
A Complicated Man Who Happens to Steal Bicycles…
by Dan
Graphica / June 01, 2010
Richard Poplak, author of KENK, talks about cycling, graphic novels, Igor Kenk and perseverance:
(Warning: Richard uses some strong language in this video)
KENK writer Richard Poplak from Pop Sandbox on Vimeo.
Talking Bike Theft
by Dan
Events + Graphica / May 31, 2010
This Thursday (June 3rd) at CineCycle, acclaimed journalist and avid cyclist Richard Poplak will be participating in a small Community Discussion on Bike Theft organized around Bike Month and the recent release of KENK: A
Graphic Portrait. The panel will include representatives from the Toronto Cyclists Union and Curbside Cycle, as well as the Toronto Police Officer responsible for implementing the bait bike program in 14 division.
KENK Montreal Launch
by Dan
Events + Graphica / May 25, 2010
The creative team behind KENK: A Graphic Portrait are in Montreal this week.
Author Richard Poplak, illustrator Nick Marinkovich, publisher/producer Alex Jansen, filmmaker/designer Jason Gilmore, and director/animator Craig Small will be at the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore at 7pm on Thursday evening (May 27th!) to talk about the project and sign books.
The team will then be back in Toronto on Friday for an event at Conspiracy Culture, 7pm-9pm.
If you haven't had chance to check out KENK yet, this is what Geoff Pevere had to say about the book in the Toronto Star on Sunday:
An innovative mashup of comic, journalistic documentary and 21st century case study in urban flux, Kenk filters this fascinating and infuriating figure through a prism of media modes that both situate the man as a kind of mutant thumbprint individual and symptom of seeping new-world disorder. While the narrative structure of the book is provided by the countdown to that 2008 bust — Igor was caught instructing a flunky to liberate a bike chained on the street — most of the pages are taken up with the man giving a seemingly 24/7 one-man performance of his own life: talking, haggling, scavenging, driving, philosophizing, repairing, talking. And talking some more.
Kenk loves the attention of the camera and makes you wonder who, or what, he’d be without an audience. He never seems in doubt that he’ll eventually be caught.
KENK - MONTREAL Book Launch
Thursday May 27th - 7:00pm
Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore
211 Rue Bernard Ouest,
Montreal, Quebec
514-279-2224
ADMISSION IS FREE
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KENK - Conspiracy Culture
Friday May 28th - 7:00pm
Conspiracy Culture
1696 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON
416-916-1696
ADMISSION IS $5. Tickets available from Conspiracy Culture.
Go to Kenk.ca for more news about the book.
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KENK Toronto Store Window
by Dan
Graphica / May 17, 2010
Should you be in the Toronto neighbourhood of Bloor and Bathurst this week, make sure to stop by The Beguiling on Markham Street and check out the dramatic (slightly terrifying!) KENK store window:
The KENK team have also installed an amazing zoetrope/kinetic sculpture made from discarded bicycle parts and old video equipment in the window display of Type Books on Queen St. West:
If you want to find out more about the KENK project, publisher/producer Alex Jansen and writer Richard Poplak were interviewed about the project for CBC Television's The National on Friday.
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Kenk teaser trailer
by Dan
Film + Graphica / May 10, 2010
Here is an amazing video promo for KENK by Toronto director Craig Small that also doubles as a sneak peak of an upcoming animated film treatment:
You can find out more about the latest developments on the KENK multimedia project at kenk.ca.
Kenk Vancouver Event
by Dan
Events + Graphica / May 10, 2010
After last Thursday's hugely successful Toronto launch (see photos here!), author and journalist Richard Poplak (The Sheikh's Batmobile and Ja, No, Man) is in Vancouver this week to talk KENK: A Graphic Portrait. You can catch him at Lucky's Comics on Thursday (May 13th) at 6pm:
Lucky's Comics
3972 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
604-875-9858
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