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AISLIN is the name of Terry Mosher's elder daughter and the nom de plume he uses as the editorial page cartoons for the Gazette in Montreal. Considered Canada's "nastiest cartoonist," Aislin is syndicated to newspapers throughout Canada. Mosher has freelanced in the U.S. and abroad for such publications as The New York Times, Time Magazine, The National Lampoon, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and Punch. Mosher, was born in Ottawa in 1942 and attended fourteen different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City, graduating from the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in 1967. He then began working for the Montreal Star, moving over to The Gazette in 1972. Aislin has travelled extensively on assignment for the Gazette, writing and drawing interpretive sketchbook throughout Canada, the US, Northern Ireland, Russia, Cuba, and North Africa. He has produced twenty-seven books, either collections of his own works or books that he has illustrated. His latest book is entitled Oh, No! More Canadians! and was published by McArthur and Company. Mosher also wrote a book entitled The Hecklers, a history of political cartooning in Canada. As the recipient of two National Newspaper Awards and five individual prizes from the International Salon of Caricature, in 1985 Mosher became the youngest person eve to be inducted into the Canadians News Hall of Fame. Interested in new technology, Mosher's home page on the Internet, which features his daily Aislin Cartoon, was was judged the most entertaining Canadian Web site for 1996. An avid baseball fan, Mosher's is a twenty-year member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America which allows him to vote for Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Montreal's McCord Museum recently hosted a large exhibit of the best caricatures of Aislin of the Gazette and Serge Chapeleau, the editorial page cartoonist for La Presse. The exhibition ran for 17 months and attracted 115,00 visitors. | |
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