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The Team Behind Kenk: A Graphic Portrait
From left to right: Jason Gilmore, Alex Jansen, Richard Poplak, and Nick Marinkovich. Illustration by Nick Markinkovich.
Tonight at the Cadillac Lounge, the curious public will get its first look at Kenk: A Graphic Portrait, the full-length, documentary comic book that chronicles the exploits and eventual arrest of notorious bike thief Igor Kenk. The free event is presented in conjunction with Hot Docs, the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, and TCAF, a partnering that reflects the project’s multi-media inception. The book is based on almost thirty hours of raw footage of Kenk captured by producer Alex Jansen and filmmaker Jason Gilmore, who then enlisted author Richard Poplak (interviewed here) and illustrator Nick Markinkovich to finish the project.
[email protected]’s editor James Grainger interviewed Jansen, Gilmore, and Marinkovich about the long, strange process that brought the world Kenk: A Graphic Portrait.
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