23rd Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2014, Korea

The 23rd Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2014, Korea
The SICACO Committee is inviting world cartoonists to take part in SICACO 2014 (the 23th Sejong International Cartoon Contest).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Thema section (titled Reality + Cyber-space) and a Free section.
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297 mm × 420 mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items. (+2 Works)
4. Each entrant should provide title, name, age, address, career, e-mail, and telephone number on reverse.
5. The deadline for entry of original works is Jun. 30, 2014.
6. Entries should be addressed to the
Daejean International Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong
Daejeon, Seoul 302-280
Korea.
7. The most creative cartoon will win the Grand prize of $3,000, Gold prize of $1,000, Silver prize of $500, Bronze prize of $300, and 300 Selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the cartoons at the City Gallery in Sept. 2014.
9. Submitted cartoons will not be returned, but exhibited forever in Korean public halls, art galleries, & museums.
10. Your cartoon may be used for promotional purposes : cards, posters, catalogs, newspapers, magazine, and books etc.
From Dr.Lim, Cheong San, President of the Daejeon Int’l Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon, Seoul 302-280, Korea
Tel: 82 (42) 487-5034 C.P: 82-10-5425-6115
E-mail: csanlim@naver.com * http://www.dicaco.com/
http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr/ (all works).

Catalog SICACO 2013 and winners of the main prizes

Received a couple of days ago the catalog of 22nd Daejeon International Cartoon Contest 2013 which has already been called the Sejong International Cartoon Contest since last year for the exhibition(s) taking place first and mainly in the newly-built administration city of Sejong while still being planned to be opened in Daejeon City as well and elsewhere also. The catalog keeps the standard size of 21 x 29.7 cm (DIN A4) with 96 pages. On the front and back covers is the Best Cartoon Prize-winning cartoon by Ying chen Zhao (China).
This edition received 1821 works in total: 1608 of them by 434 foreign artists, 26 works by 19 Korean artists, and 187 works by 104 students.
In the theme section of "Unisex * Happy Citizen" arrived 763 works while in the Free Theme section they received 1,068.
Cartoonists from 60 nations participated in SICACO 2013. The jury awarded 294 artists. The most awarded of this edition are artists from Korea (59 again), China (27), and Turkey (19 - on pages 15 and 30 are also theme prizes for Turkey).
The main prize-winners are as follows:
Grand Prize: Feng Gui Bo (China)
Gold Prize: Mihai Ignat (Romania)
Silver Prize: Jitet Kustana (Indonesia), Young Ji Choi (Korea)
Bronze Prize: Kfir Weizman (Israel), Hafız Nesiroğlu (Azerbaijan), Yae Eun Son (Korea), Ali Miraee (Iran).
And here is the list of the awarded cartoonists from Turkey:
Special Prize: Ercan Baysal
Student Special Prize: Deniz Cem Türkeş (12 yr), Doğa Yılmaz (14 yr)
Student Honorable Mention: Abdülhakim Orhanoğlu (12 yr)
Theme Prize: Mete Ağaoğlu, Nuri Bilgin, Musa Keklik, Mehmet Arslan, Ahmet Ümit Akkoca
SICACO Achievement Award: Recep Bayramoğlu, Musa Gümüş
Best Cartoon Prize: Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu, Kemal Özyurt, Ümit Müfit Dinçay, Erdoğan Başol
Honorable Mention: Sema Ündeğer, Kamil Yavuz, Bülent Okutan, Seyit Saatçi.
Many thanks to the organisers: Every awarded artist receives the catalog and the certificate!
See main awards-winning cartoons by clicking on the new invitation card.

AYACC 2013 • International Cartoon and Animation Contest • China

AYACC 2013 • International Cartoon and Animation Contest
Still image work (Cartoon \ Comics \ illustration \ Caricature) section

Host Units:
Government of Guiyang City
Red Man International Art Center
Regulations
The competition is open to authors all over the world.
1) AYACC Contest is authorized by the Culture Industry Development Dept. of Culture Ministry of China and Guiyang government.
2) Theme 1: Merry Christmas (Added 26 October 2013)
Theme 2: Free Theme (My Choise)
3)Size and Format
Only the digital works will be accepted.
The entries should be A4 ( 21cmX29.7cm), 300dpi, Jpeg format.
Please sent your works to: (All works of Animation can be sent to the following address)
ayacc2013@126.com ; ayacc2013@163.com
4)Entries
A)The authors may submit multiple works, there are no limited of entry number.
B)Works awarded in other contests can be submitted.
C)Entry form is not required. But entries must be accompanied by author's full name, address, telephone (or fax) and email,and author’s resume.
5)Award and Prizes
A. Cartoon:
Best Cartoon （1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent cartoons (2) -------------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
B. Comic:
Best Comics（1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent Comics (2) -------------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
C. Illustration:
Best Illustration（1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent Illustration（2）-----------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
Honorable mention (100) ------------------------Certificate
Other honors.
The organizing committee will inform all nominated prize winners the results of the contest before the awarding ceremony.
The organizing committee will invite ONE representative from each award to be present at the awarding ceremony and provide the invitees the transportation tickets and accommodations during the time of the awarding ceremony.
6)Catalog
All selected authors will get a catalog published by organizer.
7)Deadline
Entry Deadline: November 10, 2013.
8)Judgement
The panel of judges will be include famous national and international cartoonists and comic artists.
9)Awarding Ceremony
The Awarding Ceremony will be held on November 22, 2013, in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China.
10)Declaration
The organizing committee reserves all rights for final explanation.
11)The Right to Utilize the Work
For the sole purpose of publicizing the Award and the future AYACC or similar award(s) organized by the Organizer, the Organizer shall have the right, without notice to the applicant, to utilize the Work in whole or in part by means of broadcast (regardless of media), online transmission (including but not limited to the internet and mobile communications), exhibition, and distribution (e.g. in the form of a videogram) free of any payment to the applicant.
12)Contact Information
If you have any questions please contact with us directly:
ayacc2013@126.com ; ayacc2013@163.com
Web site: www.redmanart.com/en/bencandy.php?fid=6&id=516.

Syriacartoon Magazine Issue No: 29+30 with best of the most similars, 24/10/2013

Syriacartoon Magazine || مجلة الكاريكاتور السوري
Issue No: 29+30
24/10/2013
Click here.

Exhibition of Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities at MACIC, Egypt

The Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) will inaugurate an exhibition entitled "Faces and Features: Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities" by the Egyptian Caricature Society on 30 October 2013. The exhibition will have depiction of prominent Indian figures from the field of politics, art and literature, and cinema, and they will be shown alongside leading Egyptians in similar fields. Indian personalities that are depicted include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai while Egyptians include Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Chahine, and Omar Sharief.
The exhibition will be jointly inaugurated by the First Undersecretary in the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Camelia Sobhi, and the Ambassador of India to Egypt, Mr. Navdeep Suri. Mr. Ahmed Toghan, the pioneering caricaturist and the President of the Caricature Society, whose work will be shown in the exhibition, will also address the gathering.
The Egyptian Caricature Society has worked closely with the Maulana Azad Centre recently with an exhibition of caricatures of Gandhi being inaugurated on 2 October to mark the International Day of Non-Violence and the 144th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Both India and Egypt have a rich history of caricatures and cartoons, and the exhibition is the first of a series of steps to deepen the cooperation in the field of caricature art between India and Egypt.
The inauguration will take place at 5:30 pm on 30 October at the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), 23, Talaat Harb, Downtown Cairo. The exhibition will remain open till the 14th of November, except for Fridays and Saturdays.
https://www.facebook.com/egyptcartoon.

Results of the International Cartoon Contest -Young and EUROjobLESS 2013, Bulgaria

Results of the International Cartoon Contest -Young and EUROjobLESS 2013
1 prize - Luc Descheemaeker (O-sekoer), Belgium (Top)

2 prize - Dariush Ramezani, Iran

3 prize - Henryk Cebula

FECO prize - Marina Gorelova

RHGallery prize - Malgorzata Tabaka.

Winners in Brain Sneezing 2013 with theme "Brain Washing", Slovakia

Official results of the international cartoon competition Brain Sneezing
from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back
Theme 2013: BRAIN WASHING
International jury of the competition Brain Sneezing:
Zoltán Kulin (UA), Istvan Kelemen (HU), Karol Čizmazia (SK), Bernard Bouton (FR),
Ivan Hanousek,(CZ), Fedor Vico (SK),Henryk Cebula (PL)
on the 17th – 18th October 2013 evaluated all the submitted humour cartoons
and agreed on the winners:
First Prize: Pawel KUCZYNSKI, Poland
Second Prize: Valentin DRUZHNIN, Russian Federation
Third Prize: Heibat AHMADI, Iran
Honorary Prizes:
Andrey POPOV, Russian Federation
Ribber HANSSON, Sweden
Pavel MATUŠKA, Czech Republic
Audience Prizes:
on the 19th October 2013 the members of the audience jury
Jozef Matejka (Head of the Jury), Ľubomír Gaston Štávorský and Stano Horváth
evaluated all the submitted humour cartoons and agreed on the winners (without order):
Naghi HAMIDI, Iran (Top)
Oleksy KUSTOVSKY, Ukraine
Peter SEDLÁK, Slovakia
Honorary Prizes:
Fredy VILLAMIL, USA
Pavel TAUSSIG, Germany
Raed KHALIL, Syrian Arab Republic.
Winners, Honorary and Audience Prizes.

Invitación : Inauguración exposición "El lobo chuchú aúlla y grita"

Instituto Quevedo del humor, Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá
C/ Nueva 4. 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) - 91 879 74 40 - iqh@iqh.es.

Results of the 11th International Cartoon Competition Karpik 2013, Poland

RESULTS XI International Cartoon Competition Karpik 2013
GRAND PRIX - Zbigniew Woźniak, Poland (Top)
Main Awards:
-Krzysztof Grzondziel, Poland
-Tomasz Rzeszutek, Poland
Awards of Agency for Agricultural Market Regional Branch in Opole:
1 place:: Tomasz Wołoszyn, Germany
2 place: Jacek Lanckoroński, Poland
3 place: Henryk Cebula, Poland
Distinction: Zbigniew Woźniak, Poland
Prize sponsored by the Association for Traffic Development of the Region of Nyssa:
-Wiesław Zięba, Poland
Award of the Hassan Company of Nyssa:
– Magdalena Wosik, Poland
Mayor's Award of Niemodlin:
- Wiesław Lipecki, Poland
Distinction: Sławomir Lizoń, Poland
Distinction of the Ornament Company of Nyssa:
- Piotr Opałka, Poland
Honorable Mentions - diplomas:
1. Alberto Jerez, USA
2. Luc Descheemaeker, Belgium
3. Mihai Ignat, Romania
4. Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine
5. Tsocho Peev, Bułgaria
6. Sergei Semendyaew, Ukraine.
Source: cartoonblues.

Results of the XIII contest of cartoons "Independence" 2013 with theme "The Knight’s Move"

Session XIII International Contest Jury cartoons «Independence» (Theme: «The Knight’s move») was held on October 04, 2013 in Kiev.
Jury: Volhov Nicholas (political advisor), Nikolai Kravchenko (Chairman of the NGO «Book Space»), Luk’yanchenko Igor (cartoonist), Nazimova Irina (byldredaktor newspaper Governmental Courier), Solonko Vladimir (cartoonist), Tovmach Eugene (administrative and marketing Director TRK «Bolshevik»), Kosobukina Nina, Kosobukin Maxim.
133 cartoonists from 39 countries submitted 497 works. 100 selected works presented in this catalog.
WINNERS OF CONTEST
1st Prize: Vasil Vozniuk (Ukraine) (Top), 2nd Prize: Riabokon Sergey (Ukraine), 3rd Prize: Andrei Popov (Russia)
HONORABLE AWARDS
Eshonkulov Mahmudzhon (Uzbekistan), Kazanevsky Vladimir (Ukraine), Nikolay Popov (Uzbekistan), Andrey Ryzhov (Russia), Savilov Victor (Ukraine), Semendyaev Sergey (Ukraine).
Special Awards:
Golub Viktor (Ukraine) — Diploma of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Kustovskiy Alexey (Ukraine) — Diploma of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Hahanov Vladimir (Russia) — Honorable mention prize named Yuriy Kosobukin.
Butir Slobodan (Croatia) — Diploma of the Association of Cartoonists.
Source: http://www.cartoon.org.ua/?page=independ_13&lang=eng.

Menekşe Çam (Turkey)

The 13th Graphic Humor International Salon Santa Clara 2013, Cuba

THE 13th GRAPHIC HUMOR INTERNATIONAL SALON

Melaíto humorous magazine and the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in Villa Clara announce the 13th Graphic Humor International Salon Santa Clara 2013. This time the Salon will be devoted to Argentina as guest country.
Rules and regulations:
· The contest categories are: general humor and erotic humor.
· The works can reach up to 25 x 35 cm maximum size, using any technique and support, including copies of digital works.
· Three-dimensional works shall not exceed 50 x 50 cm on either side.
· Each author may submit up to 3 works per category.
· The works must be sent by post and will be accepted until December 10th, 2013 at the following address:
Comité Provincial de la UNEAC
Máximo Gómez no. 107, entre Julio Jover and Marti
Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
Telephone: 202661 and 207080 (ext. 110 and 114)
The Judges:
· Pedro J. Méndez Suárez, Director of Melaíto, President
· John Lent, USA
· Gericles García (Gericles), Argentina
· Hameed Khan (Ham), Argentina
· Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero (Ares ), Cuba
· Félix Adalberto Linares Díaz (Linares), Cuba
· Rolando González Reyes (Roland), Cuba.
The Awards:
Three prizes will be awarded for each category and as many honorable mentions as the jury deems appropriate:
For Cuban participants:
1st Prize: 2000.00 MN and diploma
2nd Prize: 1300.00MN and diploma
3rd Prize: 800.00 MN and diploma
For foreign participants:
The winners will be awarded a work of visual arts consisting of a painting by a famous Villa Clara artist, plus a diploma, that will be sent to them in a safe manner.
The jury’s decisions will be final.
The opening of the exhibition and awards ceremony will be held on December 20th at the UNEAC headquarters in Villa Clara.
For any questions about this call please email the Organizing Committee at: 40melaito@gmail.com
Organizing Committee.
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Convocatoria al XIII SALÓN INTERNACIONAL DE HUMOR GRÁFICO
La publicación humorística Melaíto y la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Uneac) en Villa Clara, convocan al XIII Salón Internacional de Humorismo Santa Clara 2013. En esta ocasión estará dedicado a Argentina como país invitado.
Bases: Las categorías a concursar serán: humor general y humor erótico. Las dimensiones de las obras pueden llegar hasta 25 x 35 cm como tamaño máximo, en cualquier técnica y soporte, incluidas copias impresas de trabajos digitales, las obras tridimensionales no rebasarán los 50 x 50 cm por cualquiera de sus lados.
Cada autor puede enviar un máximo de 3 obras por categoría. Las obras deben ser enviadas por correo postal y se recibirán hasta el 10 de diciembre de 2013 en la siguiente dirección:
Comité Provincial de la Uneac 
Máximo Gómez no. 107 entre Julio Jover y Martí, 
Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
Teléfonos: 202661 y 207080(ext.: 110 y 114)
El Jurado integrado por:
- Pedro J. Méndez Suárez, Director de “MELAITO”, Como Presidente
- Jonh Lent - USA
- Gericles Garcia (Gericles) - Argentina
- Hameed Khan (Ham) - Argentina
- Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero (Ares) - Cuba
- Felix Adalberto Linares Diaz (Linares)
- Rolando González Reyes (Roland).
Otorgara los siguientes premios
Premios:
Se otorgarán 3 premios por cada categoría y las menciones que el jurado estime pertinentes:
Para participantes nacionales:
1er premio: 2000.00 MN y diploma
2do premio: 1300.00 MN y diploma
3er premio: 800.00 MN y diploma
Para participantes extranjeros:
Los laureados recibirán como premio una obra de artes plásticas consistente en un lienzo realizado por un reconocido pintor villaclareño, además de un diploma, que se les hará llegar de forma segura. El jurado estará integrado por prestigiosos caricaturistas, y su dictamen será inapelable. La inauguración de la exposición y entrega de los premios se efectuará el 20 de diciembre en la sede de la Uneac en Villa Clara.
Para aclarar dudas sobre la presente convocatoria pueden dirigirse a la siguiente dirección electrónica 40melaito@gmail.com
Comité Organizador.