Terry Mosher
| Terry Mosher | |
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| Born | Christopher Terry Mosher November 11, 1942 Ottawa, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Author Cartoonist Humanitarian |
| Pseudonym(s) | Aislin |
| Awards | National Newspaper Awards (2) Canadian News Hall of Fame Order of Canada |
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 École 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.[1] He then began working for The Montreal Star, moving to the Montreal Gazette in 1972.
Aislin's drawings have also appeared in numerous international publications, such as Punch, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, National Lampoon, Time, The Washington Star, The New York Times and the Canadian edition of The Reader's Digest. He is the author of 43 books.[2]
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.
Mosher famously turned down shares in the board game Trivial Pursuit for which he provided the original artwork. The co-inventor Chris Haney gave Mosher a choice: $1,000 or shares. Mosher took the cash. [1]
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[edit] Honours/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.
[edit] 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."[2]
On March 12, 2010, he drew a cartoon depicting a woman in a niqab as being in a prison, which brought criticisms of Islamophobia. One community leader pointed out that he had made similar cartoons about women wearing a hijab.[3]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site
- See Aislin's caricatures from the McCord Museum's digital collection
- Funny and Moody: The Best of Aislin's Cartoons
- Terry Mosher at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists
