Regular readers of Angie’s List have been treated to Red Nose Studio’s monthly covers while frequent flyers have probably come across Graham Roumieu’s humorous illustrations in the monthly Dispatches column in Hemispheres, the in-flight magazine for United Airlines.

Red Nose Studio for Angie’s List

Graham Roumieu for Hemispheres

(Clockwise from top left)
The detonation of Texas Stadium, Simulated storms at Chicago Museum,
Molecular gastronomy, Robotic housekeepers in Seoul,
A 95-pound beaver escapes in England, Russian ballet goes 3D

Funny and sophisticated, and sophisticatedly funny, illustrations by Graham Roumieu and Emiliano Ponzi have been frequently appearing in national and local newspapers across North America.

Emiliano Ponzi, Female Viagra for The New York Times
The Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the potential benefits of a Viagra-type drug for women and has urged further research – but will it be enough to cure the sexual malaise that appears to have sunk over the country?

Graham Roumieu, Celebrity Break-Ups for The Globe & Mail
Celebrity break-ups unfold in the public-eye, often revealing the all too familiar story of the Good Woman, the Bad Boy and his Low-Rent Lovers.

Emiliano Ponzi, Mandatory Composting for The Boston Globe
Boston considers mandatory composting programs similar to those in San Francisco and Seattle as a means of significantly reducing the amount of waste in landfills.

Graham Roumieu, The Secret of Ribs for The New York Times
The secret to perfectly barbecued ribs is already in the kitchen – the oven.

Graham Roumieu’s illustrations were honored at the 33rd National Magazine Awards in Toronto. From nearly 2000 individual entries from across Canada the judges nominated a total of 390 submissions for awards in 46 written, visual, integrated and online categories. Graham’s illustration for This Magazine won a Silver Medal in the Spot Illustration category and three others received Honorable Mentions. Congratulations go out to all!

Erotic Literature, This Magazine, Silver Medal

Timber Wolves Vs. City Humans, Canadian Business

Extraordinary Canadians, The Walrus

Choices, Canadian Business

An especially crafty Bigfoot fan created this striking likeness of Bigfoot – bloody hand and all!

Graham Roumieu’s Cat & Gnome (Blue Q) was named a favorite book of 2009 by Juliet Waters of The Montreal Mirror and is one of the ten books she recommends you carry with you into 2010.

The Blue Q blog also named it one of the nearest and dearest in their in collection of ‘world’s smallest coffee table books,’ along with Esther Pearl Watson’s Romeo & Juliet and Mark Todd’s Bad Asses.

Graham Roumieu is part of the 100 € Show at the Hotel de Vil in Stuttgart, Germany. The 100 € Show is an international exhibition consisting of illustrators from Canada, Germany, England, France, Israel, Italy, USA, Korea, Holland, Spain, and Japan. Each illustration sells for 100 €. The show is ‘cash and carry’ and once a piece is sold the empty space on the wall reveals the artist’s full name and county.

Each participating artist has been recognized either by The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, The Society of Illustrators, the Art Directors Club of New York or the Art Directors Club of Germany. Click here for a preview of the art.

Graham Roumieu illustrated the cover of The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays (Harry N. Abrams). The book “deflates the notion of the ‘perfect’ holiday season, and allows the reader to commiserate and bask in the glow of a little dark, neurotic, and unflinchingly honest humor” from the likes of Charles Bukowski, David Sedaris, Hunter S. Thompson and John Waters. Just in time for the holidays, it’s available now.

Graham Roumieu illustrated for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada’s Early Bloomers website. The website uses humor and Graham’s amusing illustrations to encourage people to be an ‘early bloomer’ by mentoring a child though the Big Brothers Big Sisters In-School Mentoring program.

Esquire magazine’s Matt Sullivan named our very own Bigfoot as one of the Five People (and One Sasquatch) You Should Follow on Twitter. Click here to see who else made the list and then click here to follow Bigfoot, the ‘famous sasquatch who will make you think thrice.’

Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly will be hosting an art show and book launch for Graham Roumieu’s latest release, Cat & Gnome, ‘a tale so powerful it would make Shakespeare swallow his pen and crap out butterflies (citation needed).’ Stop by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly on Wednesday, July 8th for an evening of presentations, stunts, Q & A’s, general milling-about and chit-chat about new and old works by Graham. Artwork for sale is on exhibit from Friday, June 26th until Friday, July 31st, 2009.

Book Launch: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 7pm

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC