GRAHAM ROUMIEU -- 101 WAYS TO KILL YOUR BOSS

After creating a bestselling series of graphic novels about Bigfoot, author and illustrator Graham Roumieu decided to turn a new leaf and help the undervalued, overworked, and underpaid workers of the world.

Five celebrity assassins will be handed an envelope with an 8x10 of a famous boss and asked to select a method of executing them from Roumieu’s hilarious new graphic how-to guide, 101 Ways To Kill Your Boss. Who are these five human killing machines? Here’s a clue: write the letters Tim Beresford, Stacey May Fowles and Evan Munday backwards on a piece of paper and read it in a mirror. If we told you the secret identities of the other two agents, we’d have to kill you in a most unusual way.

— A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Penguin Group Canada, Gladstone Hotel, EYE WEEKLY and Take Five On CIUT. 

Mon Jan 26; 7:30 (doors 7pm) $5 Cover (Book Rebate)
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West

101 WAYS TO KILL YOUR BOSS: Deadly doodles of boss-i-cide from the twisted mind behind Bigfoot: I Not Dead, Graham Roumieu. 

The author/illustrator of the hilarious Bigfoot: I Not Dead and Me Write Book comes out of the woods and charges straight into the corporate jungle. For any embittered employee who’s ever fantasized about executing the chief executive, Graham Roumieu takes the fantasy many steps further. Imagine how different work could be if you could: turn a World’s Greatest Boss card into an eye-piercing paper airplane of death, create a corporate catapult, a lethal laser pointer, or even a urinal conversion kit (don’t ask). This wickedly funny collection of black-and-white cartoons will induce uncontrollable laughter in every disgruntled underling and cranky cog who’s ever wanted their CEO DOA.

GRAHAM ROUMIEU is a model employee at Penguin Group Canada. He seems to enjoy sitting quietly in his cubicle drawing his little pictures and weeping softly to himself. Before giving it all up to pursue exciting career opportunities at Penguin Group (Canada) , Graham worked as a freelance illustrator and writer. His clients included The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Disney amongst many others. Graham is also the creator of the mildly popular books IN ME OWN WORDS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BIGFOOT and ME WRITE BOOK: IT BIGFOOT MEMOIR. Keep in mind that speaking to Graham of his past is strictly prohibited at Penguin Group (Canada). .

TIM BERESFORD was born in a hospital near a train station in the late spring. He now works as an actor and performs with the rock band, Chinese Food. Beresford is a member of the acclaimed comedy troupe Hot Snack Radio. He would like his ashes to spread in both lake Huron and Georgian Bay so that he may forever straddle the Bruce peninsula.

STACEY MAY FOWLES is an author, journalist and editor. She has contributed to numerous online and print periodicals, Open Book Toronto and The Walrus Magazine. Her first novel, Be Good, was published to wide acclaim. Most recently, she collaborated with artist Marlena Zuber on the illustrated novel, Fear Of Fighting. She is the publisher of Shameless magazine..

EVAN MUNDAY can be identified by his penchant for wearing neckties in social situations that do not call for them. Munday is the Publicist at Coach House Books. He also writes and illustrates the obscure comic book, The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery. Munday and Jon Paul Fiorentino will be launching their novel, Stripmalling, at a This Is Not A Reading Series event on March 2.

Information about the other agents on this mission is currently being declassified.

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MEDIA CONTACTS
Graham Roumieu: Beth Lockley, beth.lockley@ca.penguingroup.com, (416) 925-2249
This Is Not A Reading Series: Chris Reed, tinars@pagesbooks.ca, (416) 598-1447 ext 221