Another fake competition of cartoons in the net: World Cup

Forwarded from a cartoonist friend, the following message reveals the so-called participation rules of another fake competition of cartoons I'm afraid. There is only an e-mail address where cartoonists are supposed to send their work (as few as 20 cartoons at all!) knowing neither the person nor the institution to collect hundreds of artwork ready to be published or exhibited in a nowhereland for whose benefit God only knows.
How informative the introduction is (!) - possibly a copy-paste paragraph, yet how untrustworthy they are by showing no sign of human existence... What sponsor is to pay the cash prizes, who is responsible to produce a catalog, what website will publish the lists of participants & winners? Please read more

From: Fifa Cartoon fifacartoon@yahoo.com>
Date: 2010/6/10
Subject: 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP CARTOON COMPETITION
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2010 FIFA WORLD CUP CARTOON COMPETITION
South Africa will become the first African country to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, starting from 11 June to 11 July 2010. South Africa made its final presentation to host the World Cup to FIFA's Executive Committee at the Trade Centre in Zurich on 14 May 2004. On 15 May 2004, FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, announced that South Africa would be the host of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Thirty-two countries have qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Six of these are from Africa, namely: South Africa, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Cameroon and Algeria. The rest of the qualified countries are Japan, the Netherlands, Korea Democratic People’s Republic, Australia, Korea Republic, United States of America, Brazil, England, Paraguay, Spain, Denmark, Chile, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, Switzerland, Argentina, Honduras, Slovakia, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece, Uruguay and New Zealand.
The World Cup will take place in eight of South Africa’s nine provinces, using 10 stadiums in nine host cities. Five of the 10 stadiums are new and the rest have been upgraded for the event. Johannesburg, as South Africa’s economic hub, is the only city with two venues for the world cup, namely Soccer City and Ellis Park. Other host cities are Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, Nelspruit, Bloemfontein and Rustenburg.
RULES
CONTESTANTS
The competition is open to all amateur and professional cartoonists.
MODALITY AND FORMATS
Work must be carried out in black and white or in colour. The work minimum must be of 3500 x 2480 pixels, with a minimum resolution of 300 pixels an inch.
PRESENTATION
Contestants must send in an e-mail supplying their names, surnames, address, date of birth and a contact telephone number. This e-mail must contain an attachment with the graphics work file in JPG format.
E-MAIL
All Works, together with the author's personal information, must be sent via e-mail to: fifacartoon@yahoo.com .
Number of entries
max : 20
PRIZES
1st Prize: 500 Euros.
2nd Prize: 300 Euros.
3rd Prize: 200 Euros.
THE JURY
A qualified jury will choose the best works.
OTHER
Participation in competition means the consent of authors to all conditions, including on gratuitous publication of works in any form.

Results 15th International Cartoon Exhibition Zagreb 2010

The 15th International Exhibition of Cartoons ZAGREB 2010 has seen the arrival of 662 works of 325 authors from 57 countries.
Theme: MUSEUMS / GALLERIES

THE WINNERS

FIRST PRIZE: PAWEL KUCZYNSKI, Poland

SECOND PRIZE: LUKA LAGATOR, Monte Negro
THIRD PRIZE: RATKO MARIČIĆ, Croatia.

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

RUN TANG LI, China
IVAN HARAMIJA, Croatia
READ KHALIL, Syria
BRANKO ILIĆ, Croatia
ROBERT ROUSSO, France.
(All winning cartoons)

Turkish master cartoonist Ferit Ongoren passed away

Today about 17.00 h on June 07, 2010 dies the master Turkish cartoonist Ferit Öngören in Istanbul, Turkey. After having an operation against cancer of the colon last February, he was suffering from a liver tumor.

Ferit Öngören was born in Diyarbakır, Turkey, in 1932. He spent his childhood in Kütahya’s Tavşanlı township. He graduated from Afyon High School, and the Istanbul University School of Law. In 1956, Öngören moved to Cağaloğlu, the heart of the Turkish press, and began to draw and write. He wrote essays and critiques on art and published the “Yeni A” magazine. He drew cartoons for several magazines such as Akbaba, Dolmuş, Taş, Tef and wrote articles for newspapers like Vatan, Akşam, Günaydın, Gün, Sabah, Bugün, and Meydan. In 1969, he founded the Association of Cartoonists along with Turhan Selçuk and Semih Balcıoğlu. Together they established the Cartoon Museum and launched the International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest. He co-published books titled “Pictures from Istanbul” with Orhan Kemal and “Petrol” with Edip Cansever. He illustrated folk songs in his album, “Listening to Folk Songs.” He collected and illustrated folktales. Ferit Öngören made illustrations of Istanbul at various times and from different views. He documented the growing of shantytowns around Istanbul with his drawings. Read more

The Big Boat of Humour 2010 - Lodz, Poland

THE BIG BOAT OF HUMOUR 2010 - Poland
In Polish, the word LÓDZ means a vehicle propelled by sails, oars or engine, used as a means of water transport. Almost all around the world, it carries symbolic connotations:
• it is an allegory of human fate in both individual and collective dimension,
• it is associated with courage, when imagining sailors embarking on a voyage across rough oceans,
• it symbolizes human longing for adventure and some change in life.
Lódz is also the name of the second largest city in Poland which is an inland city with no access to navigable waters. We hope that the name of our metropolis will become an inspiration for graphic artists, especially those with a flair for satire. The theme should be taken up with humour, with panache and perhaps with a bit of poetry... This explanation, indispensable to foreigners, is also aimed at the Poles, for whom the popular usage of the name of the city might have blurred the sharpness of its paradox. For the fifth time, the Big Boat of Humour invites all the artists, who would like to face the theme of Lódz, to enter the competition.
RULES
1. The aim of the contest is:
• promoting the city, changing the traditional perception of Lódz and challenging the stereotypical image of the city.
• creating an art gallery comprising works that could be used in actions promoting the city in a printed form or in the form of organized exhibitions.
2. It is an open contest. Everyone can participate in it, on condition that they submit their works with the application form before the regulatory deadline. The contest is an international event.
3. The theme the fifth Big Boat of Humour contest is 'CITY – THE POWDER KEG'
4. The original works entered in the contest can be made using any drawing, graphic (including computer graphics) or painting technique and should not be larger than A3 format (297x420 mm). Also copies issued by the author, described and signed by the author are accepted by the Jury as original graphic works. Photocopies and xerox copies of the works, computer printouts of scanned works or any other kind of duplication using multicopy techniques, for example offset printing, which serve as reproductions of a work, shall not be accepted by the Jury. Previously published works, works entered in other contests or works to which rights do not belong to the authors shall also be excluded from the contest.
5. Each participant may submit up to 5 works. The works should be unframed, provided with the name and the surname of the author and possibly the title on the reverse. The works should be accompanied with an application form, which shall be tantamount to the acceptation of the contest regulations and a permission for publishing author's personal data contained in the form, and with a CD with the electronic form of submitted works (in TIFF format, the resolution of 300 dpi, 15 cm at the base), which is the condition of placing them in the catalogue.
6. The works should be sent to the following address: Lódzki Dom Kultury (Lódz Cultural Center), Traugutta 18, 90-113 Lódz, Poland till 31 August 2010 (with a note on an envelope "The Big Boat of Humour 2010").
7. The organizers are not liable for any damage to the works during delivery.
8. The Jury shall choose works for the post-contest exhibition and hand out the Grand Prix of the contest in September 2010.
9. The ceremonial opening of the post-contest exhibition and the verdict announcement shall take place in October 2010.
10. The authors of works admitted to the contest shall be invited to the ceremonial opening of the exhibition and shall receive the catalogue. The organizers do not provide the return of expenses covering transport to Lódz and stay in the city. The organizers plan the exhibition of the original works admitted to the contest and the exhibition of printouts (on the basis of the submitted CDs) in Piotrkowska Street in the centre of the city.
11. The works that shall not be admitted to the contest as well as the works shown on the exhibition should be taken back from the organizers or they shall be sent back at the author's expense.
AWARDS
1. The works shall be judged by the Jury of the Contest consisting of professional artists, the representatives of the City of Lódz Office and the Organizers of the contest.
2. The Jury shall hand out the regulatory Grand Prix of the contest amounting to PLN 10,000, funded by the Mayor of the City of Lódz. The prize is indivisible. The Jury reserves the right to resign from handing out the award. In such case, the amount is added to the pool of prizes of the next edition of the contest. The decisions of the Jury are definitive without the right to appeal. The work (or works of one author) honoured with the prize, together with all the rights, become the property of the sponsor.
3. The organizers allow for a possibility of handing out sponsored awards other than the regulatory prize. Works awarded by the sponsors, with all the rights, shall become the property of the sponsors.
FINAL PROVISIONS
1. Sending works to the contest together with a filled in application form equals giving consent to:
• participation in the post-contest exhibition (or a series of exhibitions), free reproductions of the works in all media and all techniques as far as promoting the City, the Contest and the exhibition is concerned.
• duplicating the works for the needs of non-commercial promotional actions carried out by the organizers (occasional publications, press materials and the Internet), at the same time, promoting the authors and their works.
• using the works in charity actions, carried out for the citizens in need by the Organizers, Sponsors or the City of Lódz during the period of one year starting from the date of the post-contest exhibition opening.
2. Participation in the contest means the acceptation of the above regulations.
Regulations & Application Form: http://www.bigboatofhumour.com/

1st "Vignettes for Human Rights" Competition - Spain

THE FIRST “VIGNETTES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS” INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
RULES
The FERNANDO BUESA BLANCO FUNDAZIOA FOUNDATION announces the first VIGNETTES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS competition which will have an international and biannual character.
The sketchers will send in a maximum of three graphic works, each one comprising a strip composed of between one and three vignettes, which must necessarily be linked to any one of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1. CONTESTANTS
Anyone who wishes to may enter regardless of age. Each contestant will submit a maximum of three graphic works to the Vignettes for Human Rights contest by the FERNANDO BUESA BLANCO FUNDAZIOA FOUNDATION.
2. CONTENTS
Special value will be placed on the constructive, positive and critical sense of the graphics works entered.
3. MODALITY AND FORMATS
Scenes and personages depicted must be of the entrant’s own creation and be previously unpublished. Work must be carried out in black and white or in colour. The graphics work must not exceed a single page in length, which must itself not exceed 800 x 600 pixels, with a minimum resolution of 72 pixels an inch.
4. LANGUAGES
Apart from Spanish and Basque languages, graphic works are admissible without words, by artists from any other geographical or linguistic areas where the aforementioned languages are not spoken.
5. PRESENTATION
Contestants must send in an e-mail supplying their names, surnames, address, date of birth, National ID number, and a contact telephone number. This e-mail must contain an attachment with the graphics work file in JPG format.
6. PRESENTATION DEADLINES
All Works, together with the author’s personal information, must be sent via email to: fbuesadh@yahoo.es before December 31st 2010.
7. EXHIBITION
The FERNANDO BUESA BLANCO FUNDAZIOA FOUNDATION will disseminate the presented works publically. Exhibitions of the works, either virtual or real, will not accrue pecuniary rights for the authors of the said works.
8. PRIZES
Awarding of the prizes for Vignettes on Human Rights will amount to 5,000 Euros broken down as follows: 1st Prize: 1,500 Euros. 2nd Prize: 1,200 Euros. 3rd Prize: 1,000 Euros. 4th Prize: 800 Euros. 5th Prize: 500 Euros.
9. THE JURY
A qualified jury will choose the best works. Prize giving will take place in March 2011.
10. ENTRY LEVELS RECEIVED
Where there is an entry level figure of less than 80 works, then a single prize will be awarded, to the value of 2,000 Euros, for the best work received.
11. OTHER
Participation in the event implies acceptance of the present rules, as well as the dissemination in whole or in part of any presented works, by any of the Foundation’s means of communication, always linked to the development of the competition.
Regulations: http://www.fundacionfernandobuesa.com/bases-final/conditions.pdf

Results 27th AD International Cartoon Competition 2010

Results of 27th Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition - Turkey
Jury: Terry Mosher (Canada, Chair), Ercan Akyol, Odile Conseil (France), Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Cristina Sampaio (Portugal), Kanybek Turumbekov (Kyrgyzstan).
The Jury examined the 188 cartoons by 172 artists from 42 countries selected by the Preselection Jury (from 2.561 entries by 865 catoonists of 73 countries) and decided to award the prizes as follows:
First Prize: Ahmet Öztürklevent (Turkey)
Second Prize: Sergei Bobylev (Russian Federation)
Third Prize: Kürşat Zaman (Turkey)
Success Awards: Musa Gümüş (Turkey), Necdet Yılmaz (Turkey), Evzen David (Czech Republic), Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine), Valentin Druzhinin (Russian Federation), Mohsen Nasari (Iran), Gomez Claudio Antonio (Brazil), Jerzy Gluszek (Poland), Moacir Knorr Gutterres (Brazil), Kürşat Zaman (Turkey), Mohammad Ali Khalaji (Iran), Pavel Constantin (Romania).
The prize-giving ceremony of the competition will be held in Istanbul in October 2010.
Source: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kultur-sanat/haber/14831396.asp?gid=282
Gallery: http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalGaleriHaber&ArticleID=998749&PAGE=1&Date=30.04.2010&CategoryID=82