Terry Mosher

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name = Terry Mosher


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birthname = Christopher Terry Mosher
birthdate = birth date and age|1942|11|11
location = Ottawa, Ontario
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nationality = Canadian
area = Author
Cartoonist
Humanitarian
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awards = National Newspaper Awards (2) Canadian News Hall of Fame Order of Canada
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Christopher Terry Mosher (OC) (born 11 November 1942) is a Canadian political cartoonist for the "Montreal Gazette". He draws under the name "Aislin", a rendition of the name of his eldest daughter Aislinn (without the second 'n').

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Mosher attended fourteen different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City, graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-arts in 1967. He famously won entrance to this fine arts college (now part of UQAM) by forging his high-school graduation certificate, which he called his most successful work. [ [http://www.aislin.com/pages/doctorate.html Aislin Receives Honorary Doctorate from McGill ] ] He then began working for "The Montreal Star", moving to the [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/aislin/index.html "Montreal Gazette"] in 1972. Beginning in November 2007, Terry Mosher will be drawing four travel sketchbooks a year for the Canadian edition of "Reader's Digest".

Aislin's drawings have also appeared in numerous international publications, such as "Punch", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Harper's", "National Lampoon", "Time", "The Washington Star" and "The New York Times". He is the author of 40 books [ [http://www.aislin.com/pages/recentbooks.html Most Recent Books ] ] .

Terry Mosher has had a long association with the Old Brewery Mission, Montreal's largest shelter for the homeless, and in 2001, was appointed to the institution's Board of Directors.

Honors/Awards

He is the recipient of two National Newspaper Awards and five individual prizes from the international Salon of Caricature. In 1985, Mosher became the youngest person ever to be inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. In 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from McGill University.

Controversy

In 1993, Mosher became the first artist to have his work denounced by a Member of Parliament (Robert Layton) in the House of Commons as "a crime against fundamental Canadian values of decency and mutual respect." [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0011504]

References

External links

* [http://www.aislin.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/search/keywords/aislin See Aislin's caricatures] from the McCord Museum's digital collection
* [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P4_5_EN.html Funny and Moody: The Best of Aislin's Cartoons]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0011504 Terry Mosher] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* [http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_aislin.html Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists]