Gary Clement

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}{{Short description|Canadian artist, illustrator and writer}}

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| birth_name = Gary Clement

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| birth_date = July 1959

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| nationality =

| occupation = Artist, illustrator, cartoonist, writer

| period = 1990s–present

| notableworks = Just Stay Put
The Great Poochini

| spouse =

| website = {{URL|garyclement.ca}}

}}

Gary Clement (born July 1959){{citation needed|date=December 2011}} is a Canadian artist, illustrator and writer living in Toronto, Ontario.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=73640|title=Gary Clement|publisher=McClelland.com|access-date=27 May 2011}}

Clement is the daily political cartoonist for Canada's National Post in Toronto since the newspaper's launch in 1998.{{cite news|url=http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/gclementnp/|title=Gary Clement|newspaper=National Post|access-date=27 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710234655/http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/gclementnp/|archive-date=10 July 2012|df=dmy-all}} 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 children's picture book, The Great Poochini, received the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature Illustration in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/cumulativewinners20091.pdf |title=Cumulative List of the Governor General's Literary Awards |publisher=Canada Council for the Arts (canadacouncil.ca) |page=23 |access-date=27 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514154438/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/cumulativewinners20091.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2011 |df=dmy }} 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 was nominated for the Governor General's Award for the books "Just Stay Put", which he also wrote, and "Oy Feh So?" written by Cary Fagan.

He has illustrated children's books by a number of other writers.

Clement also paints and draws. His art is represented in Toronto by Dianna Witte Gallery. https://diannawitte.com/artists.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007020801/https://diannawitte.com/artists.php |date=7 October 2019 }}