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Aislin’s Montreal To Moscow

The Gazette hired cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) in 1972. The relationship is still going strong fifty years later. During his first year with the newspaper, Mosher was handed the assignment of a lifetime – to travel to Moscow and bring back sketches of the 1972 Canada-USSR hockey series. He is one of the few journalists still around who attended that historic event.

This collection of cartoons, commentary and anecdotes draws on Mosher’s previous work as well as that of other Canadian cartoonists, legendary sportswriters of the time, and several important books on the series. It is a timely reminder of the excitement, despair and exultation Canadian hockey fans experienced in that tumultuous year of 1972.

Terry Mosher has been cartooning since 1967 under the pen name AISLIN. While Aislin’s career has been principally associated with the English-language newspaper The Montreal Gazette, his work has been reproduced far and wide. Many of Aislin’s 14,000 cartoons are now held in the collection of Montreal’s McCord Museum. Over the years, Mosher has written or contributed to 53 books.