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

Graham Roumieu is featured in Marketing Illustration: New Venues, New Styles, New Methods by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman. The book, which was published my Allworth Press, in association with the School of Visual Arts, offers a comprehensive look at the realities of illustration today. Fifty working illustrators, including Graham, Christoph Niemann, Alex Murawski, Jashar Awan, Yuko Shimuzo and Tomer Hanuka share their insight into what works now and how illustrators can do to survive and thrive in this changing industry.

Graham Roumieu is featured in the premier issue of G’s, The Gutenberg’s Quarterly Concern on Illustration and Surroundings. The magazine, which has it’s headquarters in Spain, is “focused on illustration and illustrators, showing their ways of life, studios, workspaces, pets, meals, and, of course, their work.” It is run by The Gutenberg Collective with art direction and design by Picnic Design. The first issue also features Toronto’s Team Macho, Seoul’s Esther Lee, London’s Jean Jullien and Blue Q Books. 

Graham Roumieu illustrated for The New York Times‘ Letters section. The letters are in response to an Op-Ed piece entitled ‘The Computer Will See You Now.’ Read the article and view the responses here.