Emiliano Ponzi, Graham Roumieu, Nate Williams, Catell Ronca, and Gordon Wiebe have been chosen as winners in this year’s American Illustration competition.  The selected works range from humorous editorial pieces to personal work and product packaging.  This year, 439 images were chosen from 8,000 illustrations submitted by over 1,200 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers and schools.  The distinguished jury included Jen Bekman, 20×20; Steven Charny, Rolling Stone; Mia Song, Men’s Health; John Gall, Random House; Aviva Michaelov, The New York Times; Veronica Reo, Young & Rubicam; and Paul Sahre, O.O.P.S.

Congratulations go out to all!

Emiliano Ponzi, “Imaginary Friends” series, EMI Music

Emiliano Ponzi, “Postmodernism is Dead,” La Repubblica

Emiliano Ponzi, “Undertow,” New York Times

Emiliano Ponzi, “Dance with the Dead,” Le Monde

Graham Roumieu, “Social Media Habits” series, Real Simple Magazine

Catell Ronca, “The Freud Museum”

Nate Williams, “Melee,” Tuck Beckstoffer Wines

Gordon Wiebe, “Joy Explosion,” Fubon Art Festival

Graham Roumieu illustrated a promotion in PEN Canada for a lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum.  The event takes place Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 PM and promises to be a lively and provocative discussion of satire: “Legendary New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin and comedian, actor and author Seán Cullen discuss comedy, satire, and the legacy of Canada’s great novelist and provocateur [Mordecai Richler].” For more information, visit the Royal Ontario Museum website.

Graham Roumieu illustrated for Kathryn Borel, the author of award-nominated Corked: A Memoir. His quirky illustrations humorously depict the different sections of the writer (and sometimes) producer’s website, including articles, books and video.

Graham Roumieu’s art will appear on a line of greeting cards. The cards will be released by Whigby at the New York International Gift Fair. Graham’s witty cards feature a cleaning maid in the backdrop as Romeo mourns Juliet, a woman celebrating her birthday with her cat, and a ‘bootlicker’ taking deference to the extreme.

Graham Roumieu’s most recent bi-monthly contribution to the Globe and Mail’s Focus section has been published.  Titled “Seal Team Six: What are a President’s Ultra-Classified Friends For?,” the illustration imagines zany presidential applications for a highly trained group of Navy SEALS.

Graham Roumieu recently illustrated for Inc. magazine’s technology feature, How to Bag a Hacker. The article, written by J.J. McCorvey, discusses how a growing number of companies are asking their techies to blog in an effort to attract top-tier programming talent.

Graham Roumieu’s comedic take on Hostess filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy was published Saturday, January 14 in The Globe and Mail.  Graham calls for “A Moment of Sweet, Cream Filled Silence” for the end of the Twinkie.

Graham Roumieu’s novelty Twitter feed for Bigfoot has been featured in HOW Magazine’s list of Top 10 Websites for Designers.

Bigfoot is the protagonist of Roumieu’s series of illustrated novels, Me Not Dead, I Write Book, and In Me Own Words, published by Manic D Press and Plume.

To see who else made the list, visit HOW’s January 2012 Top 10 List of Websites for Designers.

Graham Roumieu illustrated a Print magazine article by Alexandra Lange. The article, An Anatomy of Uncriticism, talk about designers who are uncriticise-able and how the rigor of criticism in graphic design pales in comparison to fields like architecture and art.

Communication Arts reviews Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, by Graham Roumieu and Douglas Coupland. “The coupling of Coupland’s unhinged imagination and Roumieu’s insane knack for illustrating the ridiculously weird results in seven deliciously-wicked fairytales featuring seven highly-improbable and inappropriate, characters.”

Read the review.