Mosher & Chapleau
The Musée McCord presented an exhibit on the works of Chapleau Aislin, titled Aislin & Chapleau Caricatures. Chapleau and Aislin are two of Quebec's most admired current events and political commentators, in editorial cartoons.
AISLIN, the name of Terry Mosher's elder daughter, is the nom de plume he has used for over thirty years as the editorial page cartoonist for Montreal's English-language newspaper, The Gazette.
Chapleau has been cartooning for La Presse since 1996 and is a five-time winner of the National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning.
Together, Mosher and Chapleau bring a hilarious bilingual presentation on current events to life in their unique duo show.
More on Mosher
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. In recognition both of his charitable work and his contribution to the world of political cartooning, Mosher was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in May 2003.
To date, thirty-eight Aislin books have been published. The most recent collection, entitled OH, OH!, covers the momentous period between September 11, 2001 and the June 2004 Canadian federal election.
Over the course of his career, Terry Mosher has frequently appeared as a commentator on many of Canada's major television and radio programs. He is also a regular speaker on the topics of humour, history and the importance of cartooning as a communications tool, having appeared at national conferences such as Idea City, The Banff Festival for The Arts, Montreal's Canadian Club and numerous writers' festivals.
Mosher's presentations, always informative and entertaining, cover a wide range of topics such as the role of humour in society, the history of political cartooning in Canada and caricature as a communications tool.
More on Chapleau
Serge Chapleau is a Quebec caricaturist. After studying painting and graphic art at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, Chapleau created in 1971 a caricature of the songbook Gilles Vigneault for Perspectives, a weekly paper distributed with the Saturday Editions of several Quebec dailies.
During the following years, Chapleau collaborated in several other publications, such as Montréal-Matin, Week-End, Actualité and Nous. Following Le Devoir in 1985, he worked at Le Matin in 1987, and 7 Jours from 1989 to 1992. After a return to Le Devoir in 1991, he became in 1996 a cartoonist at La Presse, a post that he continues to occupy. Since 2004, his puppet character Gérard D. Laflaque, returned to television in CGI form on Et Dieu créa Laflaque.
Serge Chapleau's a nine-time finalist at the Canadian Journalism Competititon of the Canadian Association of Newspapers, from 1995 to 2006; he won first place on five separate occasions. Since 1993, Éditions du Boréal has published an annual collection of his best caractures, L'année Chapleau.
Client Testimonials:
"Funny, audacious and sometimes outrageous, he is known as Aislin and is one of our country's premier political cartoonists. With a few pen strokes, he comments on Canadian life and gives us the pulse of a nation. He has become an advocate for Canada's most disadvantaged and often reminds us of their plight. His humanity and concern for fairness and justice are reflected in his work."
Order of Canada citation announcement
"Far from losing his rapier touch, Aislin seems to have actually sharpened his fangs with the onset of maturity. He's as merciless as ever Still giving them the finger. Still honing in on his favourite targets with wonderful precision. But there appears to be a new deliberation to the attacks, maybe a slightly sharper focus."
Toronto Star
The Musée McCord presented an exhibit on the works of Chapleau Aislin, titled Aislin & Chapleau Caricatures. Chapleau and Aislin are two of Quebec's most admired current events and political commentators, in editorial cartoons.
AISLIN, the name of Terry Mosher's elder daughter, is the nom de plume he has used for over thirty years as the editorial page cartoonist for Montreal's English-language newspaper, The Gazette.
Chapleau has been cartooning for La Presse since 1996 and is a five-time winner of the National Newspaper Award for Editorial Cartooning.
Together, Mosher and Chapleau bring a hilarious bilingual presentation on current events to life in their unique duo show.
More on Mosher
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. In recognition both of his charitable work and his contribution to the world of political cartooning, Mosher was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in May 2003.
To date, thirty-eight Aislin books have been published. The most recent collection, entitled OH, OH!, covers the momentous period between September 11, 2001 and the June 2004 Canadian federal election.
Over the course of his career, Terry Mosher has frequently appeared as a commentator on many of Canada's major television and radio programs. He is also a regular speaker on the topics of humour, history and the importance of cartooning as a communications tool, having appeared at national conferences such as Idea City, The Banff Festival for The Arts, Montreal's Canadian Club and numerous writers' festivals.
Mosher's presentations, always informative and entertaining, cover a wide range of topics such as the role of humour in society, the history of political cartooning in Canada and caricature as a communications tool.
More on Chapleau
Serge Chapleau is a Quebec caricaturist. After studying painting and graphic art at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, Chapleau created in 1971 a caricature of the songbook Gilles Vigneault for Perspectives, a weekly paper distributed with the Saturday Editions of several Quebec dailies.
During the following years, Chapleau collaborated in several other publications, such as Montréal-Matin, Week-End, Actualité and Nous. Following Le Devoir in 1985, he worked at Le Matin in 1987, and 7 Jours from 1989 to 1992. After a return to Le Devoir in 1991, he became in 1996 a cartoonist at La Presse, a post that he continues to occupy. Since 2004, his puppet character Gérard D. Laflaque, returned to television in CGI form on Et Dieu créa Laflaque.
Serge Chapleau's a nine-time finalist at the Canadian Journalism Competititon of the Canadian Association of Newspapers, from 1995 to 2006; he won first place on five separate occasions. Since 1993, Éditions du Boréal has published an annual collection of his best caractures, L'année Chapleau.
Client Testimonials:
"Funny, audacious and sometimes outrageous, he is known as Aislin and is one of our country's premier political cartoonists. With a few pen strokes, he comments on Canadian life and gives us the pulse of a nation. He has become an advocate for Canada's most disadvantaged and often reminds us of their plight. His humanity and concern for fairness and justice are reflected in his work."
Order of Canada citation announcement
"Far from losing his rapier touch, Aislin seems to have actually sharpened his fangs with the onset of maturity. He's as merciless as ever Still giving them the finger. Still honing in on his favourite targets with wonderful precision. But there appears to be a new deliberation to the attacks, maybe a slightly sharper focus."
Toronto Star
