23.3.13

Catalog Daejeon International Cartoon Contest (DICACO) 2012, South Korea

Received two months ago indeed (been late to blog here cause had to renew the computer), the catalog of Daejeon International Cartoon Contest (DICACO) 2012 keeps the standard size of 21 x 29.7 cm (DIN A4). On the front and back covers is the Theme Prize-winning cartoon by Jovan Prokopljevic (Serbia). It has 96 color pages covering almost 400 works.
This edition received 1408 works in total: 1104 of them by 371 foreign artists, 47 works by Korean artists, and 257 works by (mostly Korean) students.
In the theme section of New Eco City arrived 581 works while in the Free Theme section they received 827.
Cartoonists from 54 nations participated in DICACO 2012. The jury awarded 318 artists. The most awarded of this edition are artists from Korea (59), China (44), and Turkey (23).
Here is the list of the awarded cartoonists from Turkey:
Bronze Prize: Recep Bayramoğlu
Student Honorable Mention: Oğuz Tuna, 15 y.
Student Special Prize: Doğa Zeren Sipahi, 12 y.
Theme Prize: Mete Ağaoğlu, Kamil Yavuz, Musa Gümüş, Bülent Okutan.
Achievement Award: Muhittin Köroğlu.
Best Cartoon Prize: Serdar Kıcıklar, Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu, Mehmet Arslan, Erdoğan Başol, Nuri Bilgin, İ. Serdar Sayar, Ülgen Güllü, Tekin Güreken, Ahmet Ümit Akkoca, Kemal Özyurt, Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu, Seyit Saatçi, Sait Munzur, Ercan Baysal (First down).
Honorable Mention: Yasemin Osman.
Many thanks to the organisers: Every awarded artist receives the catalog and the certificate!
See main awards-winning cartoons here and some other Turkish prize-winning cartoons here.

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