Sunday, February 12, 2006
Bigfoot Profiled in Post
:: Posted by max @ 2/12/2006 05:02:00 AM News Link source: National Post
Graham Roumieu and his graphic novel Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir are profiled by RM Vaughan in the National Post the weekend:
Roumieu has crafted a disconcerting, magic-destroying book, and he ought to be ashamed. Reading Me Write Book is like being given the keys to the Playboy mansion and discovering that the legendary lady tenants spend their off-hours slathered in mudpacks and wrapped in head-to-toe flannel. I still haven't forgiven Albert Goldman for informing me that Elvis died on the toilet, and now I have to face the ugly fact that mighty Bigfoot is fond of guns, cheap hos and Andrew Dice Clay. Where has my gentle forest giant gone? Roumieu has turned the Thoreau of the simian set, the last great woodland romantic, into Gary Coleman. Who will speak for the trees and porcupines now?
Roumieu is unapologetic, even defiant. The Smithers, B.C.-raised writer/artist and renowned brat (his previous book defamed the hiker's best friend, the industrious and pixieish squirrel) describes Me Write Book as a "scientific text, based on a lengthy process of Bigfoot research."
"My book is as valid a study of Bigfoot as anything done in the past. To the academic, ivory tower professional Bigfootologists [I believe they're actually called crypto-zoologists, which sounds very important], I say: Kiss my ass."
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