Kenk
Subtitle: a graphic portrait
By: by Richard Poplak ; [produced and conceived by] Alex Jansen ; [filmed and designed by] Jason Gilmore ; [illustrated by] Nick Marinkovich
Contributors: Jansen, Alex, 1977-; Marinkovich, Nick, 1976-; Gilmore, Jason, 1980-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pop Sandbox
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780986488405
Subjects: Bandes dessinées; Biographies; Comic books, strips; Bicycle theft; Thieves; Vol de bicyclettes; Biography; Voleurs
Description: Graphic Novel. KENK: A Graphic Portrait is an award-winning 300-page journalistic comic book surrounding Igor Kenk, "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times and The Guardian). In the summer of 2008, Kenk was arrested and nearly 3,000 bicycles were seized in what became one of the biggest news stories of the year. Built from an incredible mix of candid filmed interviews prior to his arrest, found footage and archival material, treated with a dazzling visual style, KENK is a thought-provoking and surprisingly funny journalistic profile of an outsize neighborhood figure and a city in flux (in the tradition of New Yorker masters Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling). Igor Kenk was something of a Toronto urban legend well before he became an international news story.
Notes: Based on documentary footage shot by Alex Jansen and filmmaker/designer Jason Gilmore.

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