Graham Roumieu’s illustration for an article about the 10 year anniversary of Toronto being made into a mega-city appears on the cover of this week’s EYE WEEKLY in Toronto.

Graham Roumieu’s illustration has been selected as one of the most notable pieces to appear in The New York Times’ Op-Ed section in 2007. Other artists on the list include Edel Rodriguez, Barry Blitt, Christoph Niemann, Brad Holland and renowned graphic designers Paula Scher and Stephen Doyle.

The illustration first appeared on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 and accompanied “Exercise On the Brain,” an article about exercising the brain to slow the cognitive decline associated with aging.

Notable Op-Ed Art of the Year slideshow

Bigfoot sightings have increased dramatically since Graham Roumieu published In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot and Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir. This time he was spotted at the corner of Bloor & Bathurst in downtown Toronto. Check it out!

Bigfoot, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot

Bigfooot, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir

Clint McLean, photographer and photo editor of the Globe & Mail newspaper, captured this priceless shot while in the Sahara desert north of Timbuktu. While traveling by camel he sat in the shade near a well to kill time during the hottest part of the day and shared a few magazines with the locals. This Toureg tribesman took particular interest in a copy of The Walrus with a cover illustration by Graham Roumieu. He looked through the whole magazine upside down and spent most of his time looking at the pictures.

BTW - check out Clint’s website, his work is really beautiful.

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An anonymous icing homage to Graham Roumieu’s Bigfoot books, this photo was seen on flickr.com. Check out the books and see why someone might be inspired to pay tribute to the big man on a cake.

Bigfoot, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot

Bigfooot, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir

Homage In Icing

Graham Roumieu was interviewed today by Zoltan Zavos at Lost At E Minor, an online publication devoted to pop culture.

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Graham Roumieu appeared in the OpEd section of The New York Times on Thursday, November 8, 2007. The illustration accompanied “Exercise on the Brain,” an article about exercising the brain to slow the cognitive decline associated with aging. The article and illustration have also been featured on The New York Times “Today’s Headlines” email newsletter two days in a row.

Read the article here:

The New York Times

Releasing this month, Graham Roumieu has a ‘love letter’ included in a collection of fiction titled Four Letter Word published by Chatto and Windus (UK) and edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter. The book is a unique collection of new fiction written by 35 celebrated contemporary writers including Margaret Atwood, Miriam Toews, David Bezmozgis, Douglas Coupland, Michel Faber, A.L. Kennedy, Audrey Niffenegger, Lionel Shriver, Jan Morris, Jeanette Winterson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joseph Boyden, Panos Karnezis, Jonathan Lethem, M.G. Vassanji and Neil Gaiman.

Each writer explores the distinctive form of the love letter to remind us how enticing words can be and perhaps even to resurrect a dying custom. Graham’s letter ‘From Bigfoot to Santa’ is classic Roumieu and an unexpected treat between last year’s Me Write Book and next year’s I Not Dead.

The Canadian edition debuts January 8, 2008 from Knopf Canada (Random House) and the US edition will be published by Simon & Schuster.

Knopf Canada (Random House)

Simon & Schuster

Knopf Canada (Random House)

Simon & Schuster

Graham Roumieu has been asked to read an excerpt from his 2006 book Me Write Book - It Bigfoot Memoir (Plume Books). The reading will be broadcast on As It Happens at 5:30pm EST this Friday, October 19th 2007. You can listen to a podcast recording of the broadcast at the following link.

2007-10-19 As It Happens Podcast

Graham Roumieu’s newest book 101 Ways to Kill Your Boss, published by Headline UK, released this Thursday, October 4th, 2007 and is sure to keep us all laughing. The title being self-explanatory, everyone will find humor in Graham’s priceless recipe of a quart of off-beat wit, a pound of absurdity, and in this case, more than a healthy dose of macabre. The 112 page hardcover book is available at bookstores in the US, Canada and the UK as well as through online stores such as Amazon.
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