Theme in Brain Sneezing 2011, Slovakia: Ideal and Idealism

Park kultúry a oddychu in Prešov announces the International Cartoon Humour Competition
Brain Sneezing - from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back
Topic 2011: Ideal and idealism
Competition terms:
1. Each author can send maximum 5 original works.
2. The competition is open to everybody and it is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The format of works should not exceed the A4 dimension.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the reverse with the author´s name and full address. Electronic application form needs to be filled in when sending by email.
5. The awarded works will become the property of the organisers.
The exhibition of the works and the announcement of the results will take place in December 2011. The most successful authors will be awarded by the jury as follows:
1st prize 500.00 EUR
2nd prize 300.00 EUR
3rd prize 100.00 EUR
The competition Jury reserves the right to grant other special prizes or not to grant some of the prizes.
The organizers will accept all works that will be delivered by regular mail or email at the address:
PKO Prešov
Mgr. Ladislav Kišelák
Hlavná 50
08001 Prešov
Slovakia
On the envelope with drawings, please, write the competition motto: Kýchanie mozgu / Brain Sneezing
Deadline: 31.10.2011
e-mail : pko.humor@gmail.com
The organizers reserve the right to publish the selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition, with each competitor receiving a catalogue of exhibited works.
WEB: http://kychaniemozgu.sk/index/propositions

6th International Competition in Cartoon Humour for Children and Youth, Praha

DON'T BE BITTER-LOOKING - AND LET'S ENJOY PAINTING
6th International Competition in Cartoon Humour for Children and Youth
Rules of contest:
Theme: Every man is the architect of his own health.
Jokes focused on healthy life style and on illness prevention (Sport, healthy food, toughening up…)
Age divisions:
A: 6 - 11 years
B: 12 - 17 years
Each participant could send maximum 3 cartoons either in black and white or in colour, with or without text.
The size of the cartoon should not exceed A4.
Deadline: 8th October 2011
Participants are requested to envelop information about the author or parents (name, surname, age, address, postcode and phone or email) and send cartoons.
Adresse:
a) by post on the address: DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské nám. 7, 186 00 Praha 8 Czech Republic (with information on the reverse side)
b) by e-mail on the address: netvarte@ddmpraha.cz (each max. size 150 kB, jpeg)
Cartoons without this information will not be accepted as well as works which are not original, made by children and youth or which are copied from another cartoonist.
Participants do not get their works back.
Results and Prizes
The jury is consisted of representatives of organisers and partners. It will evaluate all sent cartoons and pronounce one winner in each age division.
Results will be announced in the transmission of the DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské Spektrum (http://www.ddmpraha.cz/), on websites of the DTA (http://www.radiodomino.cz/), the ČUK (http://www.ceska-karikatura.cz/).
Winners will be informed by post, phone or email.
Prizes will be awarded on 22nd October 2011 at 2 pm on the occasion of opening the exhibition of the best works in the Karlínské Spektrum DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské náměstí 7, Praha 8 - Karlín.
Prizes cannot be sent by post.
Organisers of the competition:
Karlínské Spektrum - Dům dětí a mládeže hl.m.Prahy, http://www.ddmpraha.cz/
(The House of Children and Youth of the capital Prague)
Mgr. Kateřina Klímková, tel. 222 333 835, mail: klimkova@ddmpraha.cz
Česká unie karikaturistů, http://www.ceska-karikatura.cz/
(The Czech Cartoonists' Union – CUK)
Mr. Jaroslav Dostál, tel. 606 241 826, mail: dostalj2@tiscali.cz

Results XVI Salon Mercosur Internacional Premio Diogenes Taborda 2011

Winners in the XVI Salon Mercosur Internacional Premio Diogenes Taborda 2011, Argentina
Lista de artistas premiados en el XVI Salon Mercosur Internacional Premio Diogenes Taborda.
Fueron los Jurados: R.Diaz ; J. Hoogen; Volpe Stessens
Gran Premio Diógenes Taborda 2011:
Humor Grafico: MAGOLA (Adriana Mosquera), España
Caricatura: Wesam Khalil, Egipto
Fotografía: Valeria Faria, Brasil
Pintura: Sljivo Husein, Bosnia
Trayectoria: Agus Widodo, Indonesia
Premio Historieta: compartido por
Olga (Poro) López, Argentina y Michael Abarca - Venezuela
Premio Humor Gráfico y Escrito:
1º Premio: Luis Duran, Argentina
2° Premio: Darko Drljevic, Montenegro
3° Premio: Ferreol (Murillo Fuentes), Costa Rica
1º Mención: Leandro Martínez, Argentina
Mención: Wesam Khaliul, Egipto - Domokos Incze, Rumania - Mileta Miloradovic, Serbia - Kemal Ozyurt, Turquia - Jana Matatkova, Checoslovaquia.
Premio Humor Gráfico monocromo:
1º Premio: Mohammad Ali Khalaji, Irán
2° Premio: Michael Abarca, Venezuela
3° Premio: Jovan Prokopljevic, Serbia
1º Mención: Leomid Storozhuk, Ucrania
Mención: Henryk Cebula, Polonia - Domokos Incze, Rumania - Mostafa Hossein Nia, Irán - Claudio Boikoski, Argentina - Héctor Alejandro Adon, Argentina - Jiaruijun, China - Pooya Sareh, Irán.
Premio Humor Grafico color:
1º Premio: Jiri Srna, Checoslovaquia
2° Premio: Jordán Pop Iliev, Macedonia y Jovan Prokopljevic, Serbia
3° Premio: (Charli) Fuentes Hierrezuelo, Cuba
1º Mención: Dubovsky Alex, Ucrania
Mención: Li Hai Jun, Tawan Chuntra, China – Kemal Ozyurt, Turquia – Adrian Guida, Cuba - Shen Hongli - Valery Momot, Ucrania – Serdar Sayar – Turquia - Mohammad Ali Khalaji, Irán - Adrian Aníbal Palmas, Argentina - Chengwei Yin, China - Jana Matatkova, Checoslovaquia.
Premio Humor Digital:
1º Premio: Makhmudjon Eshonkulov, Uzbekistán
2° Premio: Anatoly Stankulov, Bulgaria
3° Premio: Mostafa Hossein Nia, Irán
1º Mención: Darko Drljevic, Montenegro
Mención: Tawan Chuntra, China - Michael Abarca, Venezuela – Wasam Khalil, Egipto.
Premio Caricatura:
1º Premio: Darko Drljevic, Montenegro
2° Premio: Sljivo Husein, Bosnia
3° Premio: Adrian Aníbal Palmas, Argentina
1º Mención: Robinson Avello, Chile
Mención: Pooya Sareh, Irán - Gianluca Costantini, Italia – José Nosello – Argentina, Tawan Chuntra, China.
Premio Ilustración:
1º Premio: Jovan Prokopljevic, Serbia
2° Premio: Chengwei Yin, China
3° Premio: Gianluca Costantini, Italia
1º Mención: Leslie Ricciardi, Uruguay
Premio Fotografía color:
1º Premio: Incze Domokos, Rumania
2° Premio: Salvador Gómez Sánchez, España y José Mata, México
3° Premio: Sljivo Husein, Bosnia y Jo Tuculet, Argentina
1º Mención: Andrei Storozkule, Ucrania
Mención: Ferreol (Murillo Fuentes), Costa Rica - Alejandra Rangel, Venezuela - Fabiana Bertolotti, Argentina.
Premio Fotografía monocromo:
1º Premio: José Matta, México
2° Premio: Incze Domokos, Rumania
3° Premio: Sljivo Husein, Bosnia
1º Mención: Ronaldo Girgulsky, Argentina.
Premio Pintura:
1º Premio: Jerzy Stepniak, Polonia
2° Premio: Cesar Soria, Argentina
3° Premio: Verónica V. Ríos Verdugo, Chile
1º Mención: Horacio Sánchez, Argentina
Mención: Bernarda Enríquez, México.
Premio Grabado:
1º Premio: Coulembier Rogge, Argentina
2° Premio: Mónica Paz, Chile
3° Premio: Jussara Pires, Brasil
1º Mención: Horacio Sánchez, Argentina
INVITACION
Evento: 16º Salón Mercosur Internacional Diógenes Taborda 2011
Descripción: Concurso de Humor Grafico, Fotografía y pintura
Organiza: Fundación Cultural Volpe Stessens
Fecha y hora de la inauguración: miércoles 21 de septiembre 2011 a las 19 hs.
Finaliza: 10 de Octubre 2010 a las 19 hs.
Lugar de exposición: Av. Caseros 2739 Parque de los Patricios Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Como llegar: Estación Caseros Subte Línea H; Colectivos: 6 - 9. 25 - 28 - 65 - 95 -134 - 150 - 133 -
Auspicia: Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Resolución Nº 3353 Registro Nº 1.153.575- DGTALMC – 10
Prensa: volpestessens@gmail.com
Source: museodiogenestaborda

Ross Thomson from United Kingdom wins the 2011 Boston International Humor Festival, the Online Tribute to the 10th Anniversary of September 11

178 entries from 46 countries, 50 finalists.
THE JUDGES
Omar Zevallos, Perú, President
Angel Boligán, Cuba/México
Julio Carrión (Karry), Perú
Arturo Kemchs, México
Omar Figueroa Turcios, Colombia/Spain.
PRIZE-WINNERS
First Prize: Ross Thomson, United Kingdom (Top)
Second Prize: Silvano Melo, Brazil
Third Prize: Raúl Zuleta, Colombia.
Honorable Mentions
Lubonir Kotrha, Slovakia
Raúl de la Nuez, Cuba/USA
Elrayah Ombaddi, Sudan
Ramiro Zapata, Colombia.
Among the 50 finalists are Hakan Demirci,
Muammer Kotbas, and Salih Kutukcu from Turkey.
All prize-winning and finalist cartoons on
http://www.bostoonsfestival.com/.

UMO – 7th International Cartoon Contest’11, India

UMO – 7th International Cartoon Contest’11, here is the summary:
Open to everybody
5 entries per participant
No entry fee
Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
Deadline: September 11th, 2011
The UMO 7th International Cartoon Contest’11 is organized by UMO towards the World Usability Day. Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.
All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited. There is no Entry fee.
Please go through the rules and regulations - and in particular - the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.
Theme for the Competition
Design Education for a Social Change
Education plays a vital role in the development of an active citizenry of a nation. A well educated population is able to take charge of the many issues facing society, including social problems and political decisions, rather than sitting by the sidelines and allowing someone else to do deciding for them.
Social change can be both positive or negative. History is filled with many revolutionary examples that has given us the world we live in today. Even today our educated societies are waging battles all over the world, be it in India against corruption or in the Middle East against governance or else where for a positive change.
The goal of education should simply be to provide opportunity for a student to look at the world through eyes and mind that do not merely accept status quo, but rather see the world as a place that can be changed by its citizens.
UMO's only agenda ever since its formation has been 'Good Design for Better Living'. But more importantly the route we have taken to accomplish this is by educating every one concerned about design through various initiatives. We always believed that spreading awareness is the best form of education. Programs like 'Boycott Bad Designs' has been the most participated and appreciated initiatives of UMO.
What makes it even more special is that 2011's World Usability Day theme is 'Design Education for a Social Change'.
Design in essence is a message, it is a medium through which designers and businesses communicate how a new product and service will make our lives both easier and exciting. We the design community should take the ownership of educating the users and consumers of products and services through better design. So much so that peripherals like communication design and information design around these products and services gets quite crucial in informing and educating users about them.
We welcome all enthusiasts of UMO to participate in our 7th year celebrations by spreading the spirit of good design even more strongly.
UMO encourages all enthusiasts to come up with humorous instances around consequences of wrong, irrelevant, misleading and insensitive information design. Your cartoons may reflect situations and incidences around information design we encounter in day to day business ranging from a piece of ticket (any ticket), forms/e-forms to labels & product packaging, medicine packaging/ labels, product manuals, movie posters, government notices, new papers, magazines, information systems, maps, signage, webpages and many others.
Awards and Acknowledgements
A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of
First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each
Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each, and,
Five Special mention awards.
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.
The Jury and the Judgment criteria
For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive online-works report.
Deadline for Submission
Cartoons will be accepted through September 11th, 2011
Rules and Regulations
Entries: up to 5 cartoons per person.
Size (hard-copy) : A4 (210 X 297 mm ) or A3 (297X410)
Size (digital) : 300 dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing
Technique : Free
Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned. Entries in digital format may need to be re-posted if the resolution is not found good for printing.
Exhibition and Prize distribution
We are going to exhibit the entries in several metros of India. Dates will be announced
Submitting your entries
Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to toons(at)usabilitymatters(dot)org
If you are sending through the snail mail, use the following address:
UMO 7th International Cartoon Contest’11
usabilitymatters.org,
Flat No. 407, E- Block, Keerthi Apartments,
Ellareddyguda, Hyderabad- 500073.
INDIA
Phone: +91-984 886 1432
Please mention a little background information about yourself that may help identify you with your work and the email id that will help us get back to you with any communication.
Intellectual property rights
UMO may, in its sole discretion to use the art-work (images, photograph, written content) for any purpose, change, alter, amend, add to, delete from and otherwise modify, including but not limited to, any and all cuts, edits, rearrangements and other alterations, additions and deletions.The responsibility for authenticity of all the submitted content, including the including the art-work and the personal information rests solely with the provider, and UMO will assume no role in case of litigation and copied works. The involved parties shall have to settle the matter themselves, within the conditions the original work was published/released.We respect your privacy and will not be giving out, or sharing your personal information with any third party, for commercial or non-commercial use.
WEB: usabilitymatters

Results the 1st International Anti-Terrorism Cartoon Contest 2011, Iran

WINNERS
First Prize: Hamidreza Mosayebi - Iran (Above)
Second Prize: Mello - Brazil
Third Prize: Ross Thomson - UK
Special Prize: Darko Drljevic - Montenegro
Special Prize: Faez Alidousti - Iran
Special Prize: Fredy Villamil - Cuba
Special Prize: Hicabi Demirci - Turkey
Special Prize: Michael Kountoris - Greece
Special Prize: Mikhail Zlatkovsky - Russia
Special Prize: Muhittin Koroglu - Turkey
Special Prize: Oleksy Kustovsky - Ukraine
Special Prize: Pavel Constantin - Romania
Special Prize: Tommy Thomdean – Indonesia.
All prize-winning cartoons at the gallery.

Results 1st International Contest of Visual Art "Fun in Vasylivka Style" 2011, Ukraine

Source: http://vasarthumor.at.ua/

Dariush Ramezani from Iran wins the 1st International Turhan Selçuk Cartoon Competition

Results 1st International Turhan Selçuk Cartoon Competition 2011, Turkey
367 cartoonists from 46 countries participated in the competition with 1503 works this year, 156 of them being from Turkey with 609 works.
Jury:
Chair: Muhammet Tokat (Mayor of Milas, Lawyer)
Vice-chairman: Kamil Masaracı (Cartoonist)
Turan Erol (Artist)
Marlene Pohle (Cartoonist)
Ercan Akyol (Cartoonist)
Ferit Avcı (Cartoonist)
Cihan Demirci (Cartoonist)
Ersin Yeniceli (Milas Municipality, Culture & Arts Unit)
Mehmet Nergiz (Cartoonist, Chairman of Milas Artists Association).
The jury convened in Milas on August 20, 2011, and awarded the prizes to the following artists:
First Prize: Dariush Ramezani (Iran) (Above)
Second Prize: Ivailo Tsvetkov (Bulgaria)
Third Prize: Victor Crudu (Moldavia)
Special Prizes: Ahmet Aykanat (Turkey), Mihai Ignat (Romania), Zdenko Puhin (Croatia), Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria), Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine).
The winning + 40 selected cartoons are to be exhibited between 16-30 Sep 2011 in Milas, Mugla, Turkey.
Number of participants and total works according to the countries + winning cartoons on http://www.milas.bel.tr/duyuru_detay.php?id=206 .

11th International Humor Exhibition Caratinga 2011, Brazil

11th International Humor Exhibition Caratinga 2011, Brazil
REGULATIONS
1.DATE:
Inscriptions: Until September 30, 2011
Works selection: 1 October
Opening: 10 October
Exibition: 10-30 October 2011
Place: Ziraldo Art and Culture House
2. CATEGORIES:
Free Theme
“Charge”: Graphic joke about nowadays journalistic theme
Cartoon: Graphic joke with universal and atemporal themes
Caricature: recognizable graphic distortions of personalities
THEMATIC CARICATURE:
Míriam Leitão (ACQUISITIVE)
Journalist, writer and economist.
All the works inscribed in this category, independently to be selected or not, will be acquisitives for the Cultural Station Association of Caratinga.
3. TECHNIQUES:
Dimension: 30 cm x 40 cm
Number of works: Each competitor will be able to participate with two works for each category, that has not won at no other gallery or salon.
The works must be unpublished and original. The graphical technique is free. Digital copies, signed by author and indicated that it is print number 01 and sculptures with humorous content, will be accepted.
4.AWARDNESS:
It will be awarded a total of 20 thousand Reais ( R$) in prizes, divided as follows:
A) Three Prizes for 1st Place on the value of R$3,000,00 for each category;
B) Three Prizes for 2nd Place on the value of R$ 2,000,00 for each category;
C) Three Prizes for 3rd Place on the value of R$ 1,000,00 for each category;
D) A 1st Place prize to “Thematic Category” on the value of R$2,000,00.
The prizes in cash will be paid by Caratinga City Hall.
(*) All the finalists mentioned above will receive the “Pererê Trophy”, besides the prizes in cash; all of them offered by Caratinga City Council.
It will be awarded by the Judging Commission five Certificates of Honorable Indication in all categories.
5. JUDGEMENT:
There will be a jury for selection and another one for awardness, made up by specialized people on the area.
The awardness jury keeps itself the right of not designating prizes to the categories which don’t achieve a sufficient level, transferring them to other categories or creating a special prize of the Salon.
If the awardness jury confirms any kind of irregularity, fraud or plagiarism in one of the inscribed works, it will be able to cancel the award, offering the same one to the following artist from classification list. Awarded works will be spread on the Salon’s site after its opening and they will be contested in the period of one week after salon’s opening with reasonable proves on any irregularity done without jury’s knowledge. Another prizes and indications will be set according to Organizer Commission.
All of them ACQUISITIVE.
6. INSCRIPTIONS:
(It will be observed the last day of posting)
The works must be sent to the following addres:
11º Salão Internacional do Humor de Caratinga
Casa Ziraldo de Cultura
Av. Benedito Valadares, 15 - Centro
Cep: 35.300 -035
Caratinga –Minas Gerais - Brasil
IMPORTANT: On the back of each work it must be mentioned the following information:
Category: Full name of the author
Full address with Zip Code, telephone number, CIC, Identity Card, bank data, e-mail or the candidate can paste a copy of inscription available on the site, with all data filled in.
ATTENTION/ RETURN:
The works will be returned until the end of five months after the event on April 10th, 2012; only to the artists that has sent a stamped special envelope joined together with the works. Those which were sent without envelope will be automatically given to the itinerant and permanent heap exhibition of the salon.
When inscribing, the author transfers automatically, authorial rights of his works when awarded acquisitivetely, according to the Law Nb. 9610, February,1998 (Authorial Rights Law), therefore, universal and definitely in all use modalities and gratuitous, the rights of the author, guaranteed by the mentioned law; referring to the awarded work in the International Humor Salon of Caratinga and now integrant part of National Cultural Heap and Research and Graphic Humor Spread from Caratinga Cultural Association Station; that reserves itself the rights to use them the way it judges better.
Simply the inscription implies automatically that you agree with the terms of this regulation.
http://www.salaodehumordecaratinga.com/
http://www.casaziraldodecultura.blogspot.com/
Source: http://salaodehumordecaratinga.blogspot.com/

Winners in 4th Molla Nasreddin International Cartoon Contest Azerbaijan 2011

Results 4th Molla Nasreddin International Cartoon Contest Azerbaijan 2011 on topic “No to Narcotic”
Gold Medal: Alessandro Gatto – Italy
Silver Medal: Vladimir Kazanevsky – Ukraine (Above)
Bronze Medal: Marat Valiaxmetov - Spain
Special Awards: Boris Erenburg - Israel, Stanislaw Ashmarin – Russia, Elena Ospina - Columbia, Jordan Pop-Iliyev - Macedonia, Huseyin Cakmak - Cyprus, Tural Hesenli - Azerbaijan.
See all prize-winning cartoons and list of participants on http://www.azercartoon.com/ .

Very sad news: Bulgarian cartoonist Rumen Dragostinov passes away yesterday

7 August 2011 19:00.
Our friend and colleague Rumen Dragostinov died.
We all mourn deeply.
Let us pray for the eternal peace of his soul.
08 August 2011 09:42 / traykopopov
(This report from: http://www.ismailkar.com/).

Rumen Dragostinov was born on 17-09-1956 in Sofia.
Member of the UBA section caricature.
Vice President of FECO Bulgaria.
Worked in the field of graphic design and caricature.
Participated in cartoon exhibitions both at home and abroad.
Winner of 30 national and 150 international awards for cartoon.
Participated as a member of international juries of cartoon contests
in Serbia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Turkey...
Solo Exhibitions:
1981 - Sofia, Bulgaria
1989 - Tolentino, Italy
2003 - Krusevac, Serbia
2010 - Kruishoutem, Belgium
(Source: cartoonia).