Terry Mosher

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Christopher Terry Mosher is an editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette. He draws under the name Aislin; he named his eldest daughter Aislinn, with a second n.

Mosher was born in Ottawa in 1942. He attended fourteen different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City. He famously won entrance to the École des Beaux Arts (now part of UQAM) by forging his high-school graduation certificate, which he called his most successful work. He then began working for The Montreal Star, moving to the Gazette in 1972.

Mosher has produced twenty-six books.

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Awards

He was nominated for the Squiddy Award for Favorite Political Cartoonist in 1990. 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.

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