Gary Clement

Gary Clement
Born Gary Clement
July 1959
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Artist, cartoonist
Nationality Canadian
Period 1990s–present
Notable works Just Stay Put
The Great Poochini
Website
garyclement.net

Gary Clement (born July 1959) is a Canadian artist, illustrator and writer living in Toronto, Ontario.[1]

Clement has been the daily political cartoonist for Canada's National Post in Toronto since the newspaper's launch in 1998.[2] His illustration work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Mother Jones, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, and The National (Abu Dhabi). His work has been selected for American Illustration on numerous occasions. His second book, The Great Poochini, received the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature Illustration in 1999.[3] In 2007 one of his cartoons was a Top 10 selection by Time and his work has frequently appeared in The Sunday New York Times Week in Review section.

He has written and illustrated two children's books of his own, and illustrated children's books by other authors. He is represented in Toronto by loop Gallery and Parts Gallery, and in the U.S. by Marlena Agency.

Selected works

As writer and illustrator
  • Just Stay Put: A Chelm Story (Folk & Fairytales), (Groundwood Books, 1996) – finalist, Governor General's Award for Illustration[4]
  • The Great Poochini, (Groundwood, 1999) – winner, Governor General's Award for Children's Book Illustration
As illustrator only

References

  1. ↑ "Gary Clement". McClelland.com. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Gary Clement". National Post. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "Cumulative List of the Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts (canadacouncil.ca). p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Gary Clement". Groundwood Books. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
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