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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.”
Graham Roumieu wishes his friends and clients a happy holiday season with the gift of mildly disturbing Print Your Own Gift Wrap. Click here to download the files in letter and tabloid formats.
Graham Roumieu illustrated a series of spots for Real Simple magazine. Each illustration tackles a different aspect of internet culture. To read the article in its entirely visit: The Real Simple Guide to Social Media Sites.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)
Featured in the Mirror (Montreal) fall arts preview [Sept. 2011]
Featured in the National Post Fall Preview [2011]
A Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press Featured Book for fall 2011
Featured in the Quill & Quire Fall Preview [July/Aug. 2011]
“Seven short tales of intense irony and weirdness . . . accompanied by marvelous and moody sketches and drawings. . . . A charming and also unsettling reading experience. . . . Flashes of brilliance. . . . A lovely, quirky book.” —Michel Basilières, Toronto Star
“Roald Dahl meets Stephen King in seven warped children’s-story parodies where Coupland’s understated prose is made all the funnier by Roumieu’s gleefully depraved illustrations. With such cuddly heroes as a murderous juice box and an alcoholic, kleptomaniac minivan, the duo take a sly dig at corporate capitalism—think Generation X-cess.” —National Post
“[Coupland’s] clearly not afraid to try something new. . . . And [this book] is certainly something new. . . . The tone is playful, simple and winking. Most of the time, it’s best just to go with the flow without asking too many questions or over-thinking things. . . . The writing . . . maintains its Coupland voice. . . . Both disturbing and hilarious. . . . The illustrations give life to the book, bringing the oddball characters out of the text and into the world. Roumieu’s dark, twisted work reminds me of Quentin Blake’s beautifully perfect illustrations for Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books. . . . A well-executed series of quirky stories that are imaginative and often funny. Also, for the record, Coupland’s dust-jacket author photo is spectacular. If you’ve never seen a Canadian literary icon’s head wrapped in elastic bands, well, Coupland delivers. Your move, Margaret Atwood.” —Edmonton Journal
“The stories are filled with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, usually resulting from the ridiculously deadpan dialogue. . . . While the collection is very clearly a product of Coupland’s strange and unique mind, Roumieu’s illustrations are excellent complements to the stories. . . . These sketches are just as darkly funny as the story itself.” —Quill & Quire
“No matter if you are old or young . . . this collection of cruel fables will undoubtedly charm. If you’ve been waiting for the gleeful pleasure of seeing cartoon characters getting to beat up the unsuspecting, or mock the foreign, or make small children puke, then this book is for you.” —Sonnet L’Abbé, The Globe and Mail
“The mind of Douglas Coupland must be a scary place to live. Proof: this . . . book. . . . Illustrated by the talented Graham Roumieu . . . [it] is . . . a feast for adult eyes only. (Vomit has never looked so painterly.) So, those of you who have ever wondered what kind of trouble a Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals can get into can take a soothing breath: the wait is over this month.” —ELLE Canada
“Anyone who has ever wondered what might transpire if the author of Bigfoot’s autobiography were to illustrate a story collection by Canada’s reigning postmodern ironist can stop wondering.” ––Quill & Quire
“Graham [Roumieu]’s illustrations amped up the funny. . . . He may very well be a spiritual successor to Quentin Blake.” —Drawn
“If you like Edward Gorey’s irony, or the wickedest tales in Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (David Sedaris), Coupland’s demented collection of short stories is for you.” —Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog)