Gary Clement

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Gary Clement
Born July 1959
Toronto, Ontario
Occupation Artist
Nationality Canadian
Period 1990s-present
Notable work(s) Just Stay Put, The Great Poochini

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Gary Clement (born July 1959) is a Canadian artist, illustrator and author 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 as diverse as 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.

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

  • Just Stay Put: A Chelm Story (Folk & Fairytales), (Groundwood, 1996) which was nominated for a Governor General’s award for Illustration in 1996[4]
  • The Great Poochini, (Groundwood, 1999) which won the Governor General's award for Illustration in 1999.

He has also illustrated other children's books:

  • A Coyote Solstice Tale, (Groundwood Books, 2009) by Thomas King and Gary Clement
  • Ten Old Men and a Mouse, (Tundra Books, 2007) by Cary Fagan and Gary Clement
  • One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale, (Simon and Schuster, 2006) by Aaron Shepard and Gary Clement
  • Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel: Retold from the Bible, (Groundwood Books, 2004) by Celia Barker Lottridge and Gary Clement
  • Get Growing!: How the Earth Feeds Us, (Groundwood Books, 1991) by Candace Savage and Gary Clement

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Gary Clement". McClelland.com. Retrieved 27 May 2011. 
  2. "Gary Clement". National Post. Retrieved 27 May 2011. 
  3. "Cumulative List of the Governor General's Literary Awards" (PDF). Canada Council for the Arts. p. 23. Retrieved 27 May 2011. 
  4. "Gary Clement". Groundwood Books. Retrieved 27 May 2011. 

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