KENK: A Graphic Portrait
by Richard Poplak, Alex Jansen, Jason Gilmore, Nick Marinkovich
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Pub Date Nov 02 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
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).
KENK is a one-of-a-kind profile - a mash-up of mediums that culminates in a marriage of thorough investigative journalism and the comic book form in an entirely new way.
Advance Praise
"Whether you ride a bike, or stole one or had one stolen, or not. We recommend this documentary and look forward to seeing whatever Pop Sandbox will do next."
The Austin Chronicle, 7 October 2011
“Through this odd documentary style, the creators build up a picture of a
complex, dysfunctional, philosophical pathological case.”
Boing Boing, 13 August 2010
“Creatively, the graphic novel KENK is an astounding success in
its unique form: it is a thick book of dark pages containing
photocopied images from previously recorded video with smudgy typewriter
text that captures audio and carries a loose narrative.”
Art Threat, 18 August 2011
“The final result is arguably one of the best pieces of journalism
released in recent years, graphic novel or otherwise.”
Broken Pencil, Summer 2010
“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.”
Toronto Star, 23 May 2010
“Its jagged, photocopy-art aesthetic is well-suited to its enigmatic
subject”
The Globe and Mail, 6 April 2010
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780986488405 |
| PRICE | 25.95 |
| PAGES | 304 |
