Gatto wins the First Prize in the 18th Euro-Kartoenale Kruishoutem 2011

Theme: SHOES.
3039 cartoons are received of 798 participants from 78 different countries. 70% of the participants lives in Europe, 20% in Asia, 5% in South-America, 4% in North-America and 1% in Africa. The jury awarded the following cartoonists:
1st prize: Alessandro Gatto (Italy) (See above)
2nd prize: Pol Leurs (Luxembourg)
3rd prize: Agim Sulaj (Italy)
Best European entry: Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz (Poland)
Best Belgian entry: Constantin Sunnerberg (Belgium)
Prize of the ECC: Ross Thomson (UK)
Prize of the citizens of Kruishoutem: Grigori Katz (Israel)
Honourable mention: Valery Momot (Ukraine)
Honourable mention: Ludo Goderis (Belgium)
Honourable mention: Tony Tasco (Belgium)
Cover award: Angel Ramiro Zapata Mora (Colombia).
See the prize-winning cartoons at
http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/palmares_2011_ENG.html

5th China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest 2011

5th China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest 2011
1) Theme:
The Past, Present, and Future - National Culture and Human Dream
(The Great Wall, Chinese Zhouyi, Pyramid, Maya, etc. Please visit World Heritage Centre: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list).
2)Host & Sponsor:
Host: Guangxi City College
Sponsor: FreeCartoonsWeb (http://www.fcwfcw.com/)
3) Deadline: September 28th, 2011 (The arrival of the works).
4) Entries:
(1) Size: min A3 (297mm×420mm).
(2) Quantity: Unlimited.
(3) Works must be the hand drawing original by cartoonists, the ways of representation are free. Pictures with color or black & white are both allowed, it would be better if the works are good for exhibition.
Computer working pictures are not accepted in this contest.
(4) Works must be drawn independently.
(5) Please sign the themes, author’s names, address& postal code, E-mail address at the back of the pictures.
5) Mail to:
(1) Mail address:
Li Lin
2011 Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest Committee,
NO.339 Fusui Street, Fusui County, Guangxi Province, 532100, China
(2) Please mail the original works, recommend to use the big envelope. Do not pucker the pictures! Any production which is broken during mailing would not participate in the exhibition.
(3) Please fill in the Entry-Form, mail together with the works.
6) Jury & Adviser & Secretariat:
President of Judgment Committee: Huang Qigong (China)
Members: Xia Dachuan (China), Jiang Lidong (China), Angel Boligan Corbo (Mexico), Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine)
Adviser: Xu Pengfei
Secretary General: Huang Qigong
Vice Secretary General: Jiang Lidong, Zhang Wei.
7) Choosing and Presenting works:
The contest organization committee will invite the domestic and foreign renowned cartoonists to form the appraisal committee, who will discuss and elect the excellent works, simultaneously, they will host the corresponding evaluation work on the line too. After the election had ended, we will invite the cartoonists who got the prizes and the appraisal committee to come to the Guangxi City College or the Guangxi Museum to attend the contest presentation ceremony, please pay attention to the announcement of media by the organization committee.
8) Copyrights:
Guangxi City College has the following rights to the participative works:
(1)The works will be displayed permanently on the website of Guangxi City College;
(2) The works can be collected, published, and displayed or auctioned in public;
(3) The works can be published in other media and publications;
(4) The organization unit can authorize others’ legitimate applications. All participative authors regarded as tacitly approve this contest rule.
9) Awards:
Gold Medal (1 person): RMB 18800 Yuan + Certificate + Album
Silver Medal (2 persons): RMB 8800 Yuan + Certificate + Album
Copper Medal (4 persons): RMB 3800 Yuan + Certificate + Album
Best Network Human Spirit Prize (1 person): RMB 6800 Yuan + Certificate + Album
Excellent Prize (20 persons): Certificate + Album
Being Selected (200 persons): Certificate + Album.
10) Contact:
Guangxi City College website: http://www.gxccedu.com/
Contest organization committee official website: www.gxccfy.com/cartoon
Organization committee office email: cygjmh2007@163.com .
Contest organization committee address:
Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest Organization Committee, NO.339 Fusui Street, Fusui, 532100, Guangxi, China (apart from Nanning international airport 28 kilometers)
Contact person: Huang Qigong (telephone 0086-13878868045) (China)
ENTRY FORM at sources: fcw & syriacartoon

David Rowe from Australia wins Grand Prize WPC Sintra 2011, Portugal

Satirizing one of the main issues of 2010, with the cartoon «Wikileaks and Uncle Sam» (See above), the Australian artist David Rowe was awarded with the Grand Prix of the 7th edition of the World Press Cartoon. The big winner cartoon was published last December in the Australian newspaper «The Sun-Herald». The work of Rowe the first place in the category of Cartoon Editorial and was considered the big winner of this edition. In the same category, the Polish Pawel Kuczynski was placed second with «Made in China» and Alecus, a Mexican cartoonist living in El Salvador, was awarded with the 3rd prize with «Chilean Miners».
In the category of Caricature the first prize goes to a portrait of D. João I, king of Portugal, by the Portuguese João Vaz de Carvalho. The 2nd and the 3rd prizes of this category were awarded to the Mexican Boligán, with a caricature of Julian Assange, published in «El Universal», and the Portuguese Santiagu, with «Madre Teresa of Calcutá», published by «Reporter of the Marão».
In Gag Cartoon category the big winner was the Brazilian Samuca, whose cartoon «Pedophilia» was published in the «Diario of Pernambuco». The 2nd prize was attributed by the jury to a drawing published in the Italian newspaper "Chiamami Cittá", by the artist of Albanian origin Agim Sulaj and has the title «Schengen». The 3rd prize goes to the Spanish cartoonist Tomás Serrano, with «Hard Childhood», published in "«La Gaceta Regional de Salamanca».
See all winning cartoons at
http://www.worldpresscartoon.com/index.html

4th International Caricature Contest Festival Humoreix, Spain

RULES OF 4th INTERNATIONAL CARICATURES CONTEST FESTIVAL “HUMOREIX” LLEIDA (ASSOCIACIÓ DE COMERCIANTS DE L’EIX AND HUMORÀLIA)
1. Any artist, amateur or professional, can participate in this competition, as it is a competition which is open internationally.
2. The competition theme is: “Caricatures of Spanish or International athletes (basket, football, tennis, etc...) who plays or compete in group or solitary in Spanish Teams”
3. Only one original piece of work will be accepted from each participant. The piece must be original, not have won any prizes in previous competitions or have been published anywhere else. Any pieces which are considered, according to the criteria of the judges, to be similar in any way to other well known artwork will be disqualified immediately.
4. Artwork can be executed using any pictorial technique within a maximum scale of A3 (420 x 297mm) or a scale which is proportional to this. Digitally formatted work will also be accepted. In this case the work must have a resolution of 300 ppi and be presented in JPG or JPGE format.
5. If any text is present in the work it must be translated into Spanish or Catalan.
6. Artwork must be presented within a sealed envelope together with the details of the participant (name, surname, address, nationality, telephone number, email address, etc). Work can also be sent by email to the following address: humoreix@gmail.com , with the participant’s details in another document attached to the same email. It is advisable for artwork that is not digital to be colour photocopied and hand signed. All original artwork will be returned to the artist once the competition has finished.
7. The final admissions date for artwork is 8 May 2011.
8. From 12 May 2011 artwork will be exhibited in the shops that are members of the Association of the Lleida Eix Comercial (Shopping District), and will be duly labelled. Prior to this a panel of specialist judges will be convened, formed by one representative of Humoralia, another from the Shopping District and two professionals who will judge the 200 best entrees, which will be exhibited. These artworks will also be exhibited on the Eix Comercial (Shopping District) Association website. The judges reserve the right to declare the prize null and void if the quality of the originals is insufficient or if there is little or no public interest.
9. The artist is obliged to give up all image copyrights for the artwork presented for its publication and exhibition, both physical and digital, as well as publishing them in a catalog, which can be downloaded from the web Humoreix. Once the work has been judged and finalized it will be returned to the artist. The organization pledges not to use images of the winning piece, or any other award winning pieces, without prior permission from the artist. Moreover, the organization will take full responsibility for the originals from the moment they are received until the finalization of the competition. The organization promises to inform the contestants of the reception and acceptance of the participating artwork via email or publication on the Eix website.
10. One prize only of €1,500 will be awarded to the winning entry.
11. The verdict will be decided by public vote over the Internet using the Shopping District’s website in a first phase. Only allowed one vote per person. In a second phase, a qualified Jury composed by representatives persons of the Commercial Association “Eix” and Humoràlia will decide between the 3 most popular votes, which was the winner. The judges’ decision will not be open to appeal.
12. The verdict will be released during the 3rd and 4th June 2011.
13. Participation in the competition means the acceptance of all terms and conditions. Any doubts or problems that may arise during this time will be dealt with by the organization through a memo to its members.
Lleida, 07th April 2011.
Source: feco-spain

Theme in 2nd International Canadian Banana 2011: Why not?

Deadline: September 2011
(exact date will be confirmed later)
Details at http://www.dostudio.ca/contest.html

Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz from Poland wins Grand Prize Portocartoon 2011

Grand Prize PortoCartoon 2011: Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz (Poland)
All prize-winning works
Selected artists

Results 17th International Golden Keg 2011, Presov - Slovakia

Results 17th International Golden Keg 2011, Presov - Slovakia
Attendance: 221 authors from 41 countries with 549 works.
The jury decided to award the prizes to the following artists on their meeting on 28.02.2011:
Grand Prix Golden Keg 2011 – Rumen Dragostinov (Bulgaria)
1st Prize - Konstantin Kazanchev (Ukraine)
2nd Prize - Jacek Frąckiewicz (Poland)
3rd Prize - Laco Torma (Slovakia).
Special Awards:
The Town Presov Prize - Zhao Yunsheng (China)
Igor Sevcik Prize - Barvirčák Miroslav (Slovakia)
Regional organization SSN Prize - Jan Hruby (Czech Republic)
Beer gallery Prize - Galina Pavlova (Bulgaria).
Honorable Mentions:
1.Tivadar Torok (Hungary); 2.Oleksiy Kustovsky (Ukraine); 3.Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria); 4.Andrzej Pacult (USA); 5.Pavel Taussig (Germany); 6.Mehmet Zeber (Turkey); 7.Louis Pol (Australia); 8.Valery Momot (Ukraine); 9.Henryk Cebula (Poland); 10.Urmas Nemvalts (Estonia); 11.Thomas Gayer (Czech Republic); 12.Sun Chengyuan (China); 13. An Keyu (China); 14.Zhichong Liang (China); 15.Shi Tian Jun (China); 16.Si Qi Zhang (China).
Jury:
Jaroslav Rezník, President, General manager TASR; Mgr. Ludmila Kotarova, Bulgarian Cultural Institute; Viera Valková, Presov Municipality; Tadeusz Blonski, Faculty of Arts TU Kosice; Miroslav Vico, writer and cofounder of competition; Margita Rešovská, Šarišská Gallery Presov; Jozef Jurčišin, regional organization SSN; Fedor Vico, cartoonist & managing director of competition.
Source: Ivan Hanousek (E-GAG 2011-13).

IV. Baja Cartoon Competition with theme: Angler wife and hunter wife

IV. Baja Cartoon Competition
The town of Baja – famous for its Fish Soup Contest (http://www.bajaihalfozofesztival.hu/) - organises its fourth cartoon competition, and this second time it goes international!
Every fun loving amateur or professional cartoonist is welcome to enter the event.
Theme: Angler wife and hunter wife
Competition details:
1.) Participants can submit up to three original cartoons in A/4 or A/3 size, using any technique. Prints of cartoons produced or coloured with software can also be submitted on condition that it has the cartoonist’s original signature and the print’s serial number.
2.) The participants should write their name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the back of the cartoons.
3.) Deadline for entries: 20 June, 2011.
4.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):
István Kelemen
Baja
Bajza J. u. 19.
6500 Hungary
5.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact:
Phone: +36 20 426 58 82
e-mail: grafikuskelemen@freemail.hu
6.) Participants whose works are selected by the jury for the catalogue will receive a catalogue via post.
7.) First prize: 500 USD + certification - Courtesy of the mayor of Baja
Second prize: 300 USD + certification - Courtesy of Magyar Vadaszlap hunting magazine
Third prize: 300 USD + certification - Courtesy of Kedvenc crosswords magazine
Special award: 300 USD + certification - for the Hungaryan cartoonist - Courtesy of Pannon Presztizs magazine
+ 5 certification.
8.) The time of jury for decision making: 24th June, 2011.
The decision of jury is irreversible.
9.) The opening ceremony and prize distribution will be at 17 a.m. 08 July, 2011. Address: Bacska Kulturpalota (Bacska Culture Hall) - Szentharomsag ter, Baja, 6500, Hungary
10.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: http://www.grafikuskelemen.hu/
11.) The organiser retains the right to use the cartoons freely.
12.) We do not send back the cartoons, we are planning to make an exhibition from them.
We wish good work and succesfull participation to everyone.

FECO organize solidarity exhibition: Cartooning for Japan

Cartooning for Japan
FECO wants to get involved in a new -and urgent- solidarity action. The action is about Japan, and anyway everyone knows the question.
We want to organize an exhibition including artworks by FECO members or not FECO members. The works will be offered for purchase and the total income will be given to an institution responsible to help victims of the japanese disaster even if it is in a modest fashion.
Zoran Petrovic, in charge of the layout of the FECO Bulletin, suggested this idea, then you can send your works at his post address:
Zoran Petrovic
Karlstrasse 65,
76137 Karlsruhe
Germany
We ask everyone who wants to help us for one or several cartoons, preferently originals; you can send also digital cartoons, but the print out must be signed by the artist. The theme is free, but please, write your name and your address, and your e-mail address on the back of the cartoon. The exhibition will be held about the middle of April at the gallery EigenArt in Karlsruhe, Germany, where the showroom will be kindly reserved for us, free of charge. http://www.galerie-eigenart.com/
With the help of the press, we could attract the population of the area and if possible it could be spread out more (national and international).
The works (originals or signed print out) must be sent by (NEW DEADLINE: http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-deadline-and-address-for-nippon.html ) May 20th 2011.

18th International Festival CartoonRendon 2011, Colombia

18th RENDON INTERNATIONAL CARTOON FESTIVAL 2011 - COLOMBIA
The Conditions:
1) The contest is open to all cartoonists all over the world.
2) The deadline for entries is June 7, 2011.
3) The themes of the competition are Three:
Theme 1. VISUAL ARTS (The visual arts are forms of art expressions found preeminently focused on job creation that are visual by nature as being) Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, Installations, Performance, Video and Design.
Theme 2. CHARACTER (Caricature): Artists FERNANDO BOTERO A. – ELADIO VELEZ (see biographies at http://www.cartoonrendon.com/).
And Theme 3. FREE.
4) Each participant can present in the competition a maximum of TWO cartoons for theme.
5) You can participate with cartoons in white and black or in color.
6) The cartoons will have a maximum size of 30 x 40 cms.
7) You can also participate in the competition with cartoons that have already been published or rewarded previously. All the presented cartoons will be original. Photographs, photocopies etc, will not be accepted, and the transport of the cartoons in charge of the participant.
8) Participants are requested to send, together with their cartoons, a short curriculum vitae and a photograph.
9) On the back of each cartoon must be the name, address, phone number and country of origin of the participant.
10) The Cartoonists selected will receive a catalog.
11) The jury is composed of Colombian and foreign cartoonists.
12) The results will be announced in the month of July 2011.
13) The cartoons presented in the competition won't be returned.
14) Filling out the application form and submit it implies that the contestants accept and authorize Cartoonrendon the publication of caricatures or cartoons in print, display and audio playback devices and/or video with all the rights, including the transfer of these rights to others without limitation of time, place and number of times of publication, apart from this Cartoonrendon have the right to display, archive, publish on the internet or other possible means of publications not mentioned here, these cartoons without any limitation whatsoever. With the actual delivery of the request for participation is considered Cartoonrendon delegates these rights.
15) The organizers reserve the right to display works that understands they can threaten individual or collective rights.
16) Participation in the competition implies full and unreserved acceptance of these conditions.
PRIZES:
1) Grand Prize Theme VISUAL ARTS 2000 USD
2) Character Theme "Fernando Botero" Prize 500 USD
3) Character Theme "Eladio Velez" Prize 500 USD
4) Free Theme Prize 500 USD
5) Special Prizes offered by various institutions.
ADDRESS: The work should be sent to: 18° FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CARICATURA Fernando Pica, Palacio de la Cultura / Cr 50 # 48 - 05, Rionegro Antioquia COLOMBIA
Download Entry Form: http://www.cartoonrendon.com/
info@cartoonrendon.com
Source: trianacartoon

26th Tolentino International Biennial of Art Humour 2011, Italy

INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ART HUMOUR - TOLENTINO (ITALY) 26th edition – 2011Contest: open to artists from all over the world
Theme: TWENTIETH CENTURY ART
Entries: max. 3 works. The works (in any form of visual art) must be original, unpublished and accompanied by the author's photo or caricature, entry-form and biography, sales range.
Size: free
Technique: free
Deadline: May 31, 2011Prizes:
1st Prize Biennial winner - Intl Prize "City of Tolentino" + 5.000 €uro and one-man exhibit in Biennial 2013
2nd Prize - 3.000 €uro
3rd Prize - 1.500 €uro
"Cesare Marcorelli" Career Prize; "Luigi Mari" Academy of Humour Prize; Special Prizes.
Opening and prize distribution: July 21, 2011
Exhibition: July 21 - October 2, 2011
Catalogue: each selected author will receive a copy.
Sale: the Organiser will provide and assign, for each work on sale, the price chosen by the artist. 20% of the earnings will go to the Organiser. The winning works of art will be excluded from sale and will become the property of the International Museum for Art and Caricature Humour in Tolentino.
Remark: the winning works and the selected works for exhibition will not be returned and will be included in the Museum of Art and Caricature Humour. The other works not selected will be returned at the cost of the Organiser.
The works should be sent to:
Secretary for the
26th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ART HUMOUR
Piazza della Libertà, 3, 62029 TOLENTINO (MC) ITALYFor any further information and communication:
Secretary's Office of INTL BIENNIAL OF ART HUMOUR
Piazza della Libertà, 3,
62029 Tolentino (MC) - ITALY
info@biennaleumorismo.org
http://www.biennaleumorismo.org/
http://www.fanofunny.com/guests/biennaleumorismo/index.html