24th Rotary Cartoon Award Competition, Australia

The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City invites you to enter . . .
http://www.rotarycartoonawards.com/index.php/entry-form
Theme in the International section:
Living in an "i" World (embracing smart technology)

Violation of the regulations brings disqualification in Satyrykon Legnica 2012

Announcement of Satyrykon Jury verdict change
Legnica Culture Centre would like to inform that there have been noted two cases of serious abuse and violation of the competition regulations relating to works which were awarded by Satyrykon - Legnica 2012 Jury.
The untitled work sent in by Mr Valentin Georgiev, which was awarded Grand Prix, happens to be an almost calque copy of ideas used in previous years by other authors, in works which were awarded at international festivals. The jury and the competition organizers have in harmony agreed to disqualify the work. According to jurors' opinions the work is a case of an unacceptable usage of other people's ideas. Satyrykon organizers remain in complete agreement with the jury views.
Mr Pol Leurs's work ”Blue door”, which was awarded a bronze medal and 3rd prize in section: Joke, has violated point 3 of the competition regulations concerning the participation conditions, which sounds as follows: ”WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the competition SATYRYKON”. As the work has already been awarded in MASTER CUP competition organized in China in 2011., similarly to the first case, the jury has also made a decision to disqualify the work, which has been fully supported by the organizers.
Due to the facts mentioned above, the jury has decided to award Grand Prix to the next pretending work in the competition, that is the untitled work by Mr Grzegorz Szumowski (Top). Such jury decisions have also resulted with some other changes presented below:
3rd prize in section: Joke has been finally awarded to Mr Lex Drewiński for his untitled work. The distinction has been awarded to Mr Alessandro Gatto for his work ”Supreme Bank”. 1st prize in section: Satire goes to Mr Grzegorz Stańczyk for his work ”Hunting”, 2nd to Mr Stanisław Koguciuk for his work ”Poverty-indigence-crisis”, 3rd to Jugoslav Vlahović for his work ”Flower bomb”, and the distinction award goes to Ms Małgorzata Lazarek for her work ”Logo Man”.
*
Comment on the Satyrykon jury final verdict
”The art that has no morale loses its sense and power. People's own, unique and inimitable ideas are the essence of any kind of creation. We have awarded the prizes and distinctions trusting in beauty, good and truth. I do still trust in them” - these are the words addressed to Satyrykon by a noble, honest and righteous man, a uniquely talented, fine artist Marek Stanielewicz.
He was one of the jurors of this year's Satyrykon edition, and he has sent those words on hearing the works awarded included the ones that should not have received their prizes. Their authors have acted in an unacceptable way by attempting to deceive the organizers, jurors, fellow artists and the public. They have not made an effort and chosen to be dishonest in order to show their names in spotlights of one of the most important world satirical events which Satyrykon is. There has been no other way of act as to change the verdict and take the awards away from dishonest artists who have not deserved them.
One can feel only sorry that cases like that still happen, and it is really sad that there have been more than just the two revealed after the jury's verdict this year. It is sad that as early as at registration stage, some works sent to Satyrykon happen to be rejected as they should not have been even posted to Legnica. I doubt there is any competition organizer in the world capable of recognizing all such cases. I feel sorry to face that shameless challenge.
Fortunately, it is just a margin. Fortunately, majority of people understand what being honest means. Fortunately, there are people in the world who oppose unfairness and have helped us to reveal such cases and stigmatize them this year. We would like to thank them because, similarly to Marek Stanielewicz, most of all, we believe in beauty, good and truth.
Grzegorz Szczepaniak
Director of Legnica Culture Centre
Source: http://www.satyrykon.pl/en/menu.php?ID=news
Final prize-winning works

Results 2nd International City & Citizen Cartoon Contest 2012, Iran

Results of the 2nd International City & Citizen Cartoon Contest 2012 - Tabriz, Iran
First prize: Sasha Dimitrijevic - Serbia (Top)

Second prize: Mehdi Azizi - Iran

Third prize: Vahideh Fallahi - Iran

Selected Cartoons: Diploma + Memorial Statuette
Yuriy Kosobukin - Ukraine
Mohammad Ali Khalaji - Iran

Ahmet Öztürklevent - Turkey
Amir Dehgan - Iran
Sergey Elkin - Russia.
All prize-winning works on source: rahimcartoon

Grand Prize in Satyrykon Legnica 2012: Valentin Georgiev, Bulgaria

Grand Prize Satyrykon Legnica 2012: Valentin Georgiev
Protocol of Jury + winning works here .
See similars of Grand Prize winning work on karcomics .

New issue: ArteFacto # 49, February 2012

To read the e-magazine in full, click here .

2nd International competition of cartoons "Football unites us" 2012

Football unites us -2
Dear colleague, colleagues.
We invite to participate in a competition.
Report please about our competition to the cartoonists / caricature .
We send you the terms of competition of cartoons to Euro-2012:
(The first competition of caricature passed in 2010)
http://art-krug.com/Content/show/page/konkurs
and http://art-krug.com/News/show
Regards!!!
Organizer of competition:
Valery Krugov, Mikhail Shlafer.

Reply from Mr Seyran Caferli, Cartoon News Center website director

Mr Seyran Caferli, the director of Cartoon News Center website, sent the following message below requesting me to publish it on this blog, caricaturque.
In his message, Mr Caferli writes that the announcement of the International Restaurant Cartoon Contest arrived in his e-mail box sometime ago and he demanded extra info from the organizers while publishing the present info on his website.
Although promised by the organisers, the extra info has not arrived yet, and with the right notice of my previous post yesterday, Mr Caferli says he has deleted the info about the doubtful Restaurant Cartoon Contest from his website.
Many thanks for his concern and kind answer.
Kemal Ozyurt.

Seyran Caferli: Rica ederim
From: Seyran caferli cartooncenter@gmail.com
Date: 22 Feb 2012 19:32
Sayin Kemal Ozyurt,
Azerbaycandan sevgilerimle..
http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Sitenizdeki The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 hakindaki yazinizi ve hakli iradlarinizi okudum.. Bu yarisma benim E-mail adresime gelen duyrulardan biridir ve ben yarismaya sitemde yer verdigimden sonra organizatorlerden bana daha fazla bilgi vermelerini rica etmisdim.. Teesufler ki, onlar detayli bilgileri bana yakin bir zamanda gondereceklerine soz verselerde sonucda bu gunku tarihedek hic bir cevab vermediler.. Sizin sitede yazdiklarinizdan derhal sonra ben hemin yarismanin kosularini web siteden derhal iptal etdim.. ve Sizin hakli iradlariniza gore tesekur ederim Zamaninda bize yardimci oldugunuzdan ve hakli dusuncelerinizden dolayi bir daha tesekur ederim.
Sevgi ve saygilarimla,
Seyran Caferli
Uluslararasi Karikatur Haber Merkezi Web sitesinin direktoru
http://www.cartooncenter.net/
P.S. Degerli Kemal Ozyurt yukaridaki yaziya http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Web sitenizde yer vermenizi rica ederim.. Once tesekurler.

XIII International Cartoon Competition "Independence" 2012, Ukraine

Theme: Football
Deadline: 5 May 2012
Source: ecc-kruishoutem

A letter, a blacklist, and a fake competition

From: tawan chuntra tchuntra@yahoo.com
Date: 16 Feb 2012 06:59
Dear kozyurt
I send you the information that the contest that not pay the prize.
Please inform other cartoonists for consideration.
Pease post in your blog, http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/
I won special prize in 39th Skopje 2011,Macedonia, but until now I do not receive the prize anymore. This contest is so fake. Belowing is email that only thing I receive, on Friday, 22 July, 2011 2:20 PM
Regards
Tawan Chuntra

Dear Tawan Chuntra,
Thank you for the participation in the World Gallery of cartoons and congratulations for the award.
The participants who win the Special Award, as you are, are granted with the Special Award Plaque, beside the Catalog (available for all selected participants). We have sent the Catalogs first to all the participants, and afterwards we'll send the Plaque as well.
Sorry for the delay. We are looking forward our future cooperation
Regards from Macedonia,
Mice Jankulovski
Director of OSTEN Skopje.
***
Unfortunately, we notice that World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje is among the blacklisted cartoon contests by FECO: In this page you could find contests where the cartoonists rights are not respected because the organisers claim copyrights:
http://www.fecocartoon.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=27&Itemid=42
Of course, there is still hope:
Hopefully these contest rules will change and then, these contests announcements will join the main contest list !
***
And some fake cartoon contest news again released by only Mr Seyran Caferli's Cartoon News Centre: The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 !!!
Unfortunately Mr George Licurici re-published the info about that fake competition although with a question mark about the organizer. Somebody (with the e-mail address from China !!!) needs original ideas of you honest cartoonits about food and restaurant to copy from! For what? For nothing!
Serious website editors will not promote that false competition I hope and must protest the person behind it and he is already condemned by many editors and cartoonists for sure indeed.

XIV International Cartoon Contest - Zielona Gora, Poland

XIV International Cartoon Contest - Zielona Gora, Poland - Invitation
The Society of Supporters of Cultural Activities “Debut” and the Voivodeship and Municipal Public
Library in Zielona Góra cordially invite to participate in the XIV Open International Cartoon Contest.
This year theme is PLANE - AIRPORT - FLYING.
Attached are the rules for the Contest and the Entry Form.
Yours Faithfully,
The Debut Society,
dr Andrzej Buck, President.