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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
Event page on Facebook
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.