Results of the 5th International Cartoon Contest Virton 2014, Belgium

Theme: "When the peace will be"
WINNERS

1st Prize: Batti (France)

2nd Prize: Sava (Serbia)

3rd Prize: Den Trick (Belgium)

See source page.

OPEN LETTER by Julian Pena-Pai, Romania

OPEN LETTER
Dear Mr. Aydin DOGAN,
You, as a supporter of world culture, you have the authority to stop the deterioration of the most important international cartoon contest worldwide - (Aydin Dogan Int’l cartoon contest).
I am a cartoonist who knows very well the present and the past of this Salon, I have been awarded a few prizes, and I was a member of the 2007 jury.
If you will permit me, please let me inform you that:
1. It is not the international jury that is responsible for the decline of your Salon, because the jury are supposed to analyze only the 120 works selected by the Turkish selection committee . And this, out of over 2,000 works received. This is not fair.

2. I think that Mrs. Candan Fetvaci –very good worker and organisator - is manipulated by the three Turkish cartoonists, members of selection committee, presscartoonists, who are incapable of selecting the best 120 works. (Special Latif Demirci).
See their selection this year.
This selection team has no relation to the high standards of the teams led by master Semih Balcioglu.
The biggest fan of A.DOGAN international cartoon contest,
Julian Pena-Pai

http://www.bestcartoons.net/Car/Simavi-Ay-Dogan-Turkey/Dogan-2014/.

Prize-winning similars in the 31st Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition 2014

More similarities on source and bestcartoons.

Turkish cartoonist wins the 31st Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Contest 2014, Turkey

A Turkish cartoonist has come out on top at the 31st Aydın Doğan Cartoon Contest, which kicked off in Bodrum on June 17 with a day-long session where judges got together to select the winner.
Kürşat Zaman, who was awarded with the third prize in the competition in 2010, won the first prize this year. His winning work depicts a scene where a military helicopter delivers the coffins of those who died in a war as families await their deceased loved ones around a baggage carousel (Top).
The second prize of the contest went to Iranian artist Mojtaba Heidarpanah and third prize went to Krzysztof Grzondziel, who was last year’s winner.
Cartoons by Doğan Arslan, Akın Candemir, Menekşe Çam and Burak Ergin from Turkey, Rafael Correa and Rodrigo Machado da Rosa from Brazil, Pawel Kuczynski from Poland, Peter Nieuwendijk from Netherland, Alireza Pakdel, Sajad Rafeei, and Farzaneh Vazifitabar from Iran, Zhang Wei from China all won Merit Awards at this year’s contest.
A total of 814 cartoonists from 70 countries joined the competition with 2,556 pieces this year.
The international committee, which gathered at Bodrum’s Işıl Club, evaluated 300 cartoons by 214 artists from 43 countries, which had already been chosen by the pre-selection committee.
The selection committee was headed by Liza Donnelly, who is an award-winning cartoonist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine and Forbes. The jury also consists of famous figures Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Piyale Madra and Tan Oral from Turkey, and Dokhshid Ghodratipour from Iran, Moacir Knorr Gutterres from Brazil, Catherine Meurisse from France, Lichuan Xia from China and Anita O’Brien from London, who is the director of the Cartoon Museum in London.
More on source: hurriyetdailynews.
All winning cartoons here.

VII. Baja Cartoon Competition 2014 with theme: The Glasses

VII. Baja Cartoon Competition
Theme: THE GLASSES = EYEGLASSES
(sunglasses, reading glasses, monocle, etc.)
Competition details:

1.) Participants can submit up to 5 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: 31. 08. 2014.
4.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):

István Kelemen
Baja
Bajza József 19.
6500
Hungary

5.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact e-mail: grafikuskelemen@gmail.com
6.) Awards:

I. prize: 100.000 HUF
II. prize: 60.000 HUF
III. prize: 50.000 HUF
+ three diploma.

7.) The opening ceremony and prize distribution will be at 19.09.2014, Baja.
8.) The organizer will use the entries in the following locations:
- Digital or paper catalogue
- The material exhibition of invitation, poster, leaflets, etc..
- Report on media television, newspapers, magazines, etc..
9.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: www.grafikuskelemen.hu
10.) We do not send back the cartoons.

XXI International Festival of the Arts Humor 2014, University of Alcalá, Spain

The General Foundation of the University of Alcalá, through the Instituto Quevedo del humor, announces XXI International Festival of the Arts Humor around the subject of WATER. There will be more information about the subject in the website.
1 Participation is open to all the persons older than 18.
2 In order to participate in the Exhibition, every artist must send a piece on the theme of WATER. It can be a vignette, a comic strip or a caricature. Together with the piece, the authors must send the filled formulary attached to these requirements, that can also be found and sent online here. The organization reserves the right to invite those authors that the organization members agree to consider important for the exhibition.
3 The works must be original and must be signed. They can be made with any technique and in any format, with maximum dimensions of A3 (297x420 mm). For digital works, they must be made in formats JPG or TIFF with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, and they must be sent to miah@iqh.es or to the online form.
4 All pieces will be sent properly wrapped. It is recommended to protect them with flat cardboard. The organization won't take responsibility on any possible damage occurred during transportation. All shipping charges will be at the participant's expense.
5 All art pieces will be sent before July 11, 2014, by mail, online form, or to the following address:
Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá
XXI Muestra Internacional de las Artes del Humor
C/ Nueva, 4.
28801 Alcalá de Henares
Madrid (España)
It is essential to comply with the noted date for the adequate planning of the catalogue and design of the exhibition.
6 A Selection Comission will carry out a selection of the pieces submitted, that will be exhibited in the XXI Internacional Exhibition of the Arts of Humor in october-november 2014.
7 All pieces submitted will be kept at the Graphic Humour Archives of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá, except specific indication to the contrary, for which the artist must write on the reverse of the piece “Devolución”. The authors who want a donation certificate must write "Certificado" on the reverse of the piece.
8 The submission of the piece means that the author authorizes the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá to reproduce it and exhibit it, as long as the name of the artist is displayed and the objective is the media coverage of the Exhibition and the rest of activities of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá within the field of Graphic Humour and/or of this call (edition of catalogues, posters, leaflets, media coverage, web page, etc.), and in any case it generates any type of obligation on the author's part.
9 The organization will communicate through the Exhibition web page the list of participants with submitted piece and the list of selected pieces.
10 At the end of the exhibition in Alcalá, those people with selected pieces will receive a copy of the catalogue, which will be edited to mark the celebration of the Exhibition.
11 The organization reserves the right to not exhibit those pieces considered to infringe individual or collective rights.
12 The participants will be responsible before any claim on the authorship of the works. The organization will not be responsible before any claim made by a third party upon the violation of intellectual rights or property of the works.
13 The participation on this Exhibition means the acceptance of these conditions of entry.
Source.

NOTICE of SICACO2014 CONTEST (2014.06.16 18:04)

Thanks for your interests & participating in SICACO2014. Our committee has extended the deadline of SICACO2014 by two months due to new theme within World Cup Cartoon. Please inform it your cartoonists and mass communication. We hope many cartoonists take part in my SICACO2014 contest.
1. This year's contest comprises a Thema section (titled Reality+ Cyber space + World Cup) and a Free section
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297mm × 420mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items(+2 original 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 August. 31, 2014.
6. Entries should be addressed to the Sejong Int'l Cartoon Institute.
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, selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the cartoons at the Sejong & Daejeon Galleries in Nov. 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, magazine, books and web etc.
From Dr. Lim, Cheong San,
President of SICACO(the Sejong Int'l Cartoon Institute)
450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon 302-280, Seoul Korea
C/P : 82-10-5425-6115, Tel: 82-42-487-5034
E-mail : csanlim@naver.com, http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr(all DB).

Carlos Brito: PORTUGUESE TROUBLES

PORTUGUESE TROUBLES

In the north of Portugal there is a town named Porto. This town is very well known all over the world because of the famous Port wine, but also because of the very important international contest named PortoCartoon. Every cartoonist knows that this very important contest announces a very very important awards amount : for instance, the first prize is 7 000 euros, but paid « half part of it in money and the other half in wine ». So, if you are the lucky cartoonist who wins the first prize, you get, of course, 3 500 euros in cash and a few bottles of Port wine, but also other sorts of wine supposed to be a very high quality wines and, therefore, very very expensive ones. The problem is that last year, the Cuban-Mexican cartoonist Boligan, who won the second prize, received, of course, 1 500 euros in cash and, of course, several bottles of wine for the amount of… 191,71 euros, as it was checked by some Portuguese friends of him, including me. Which means that 1 308,29 euros of wine are still missing in Boligan’s throat or in his pocket if he had tried to sell his « missing bottles » in some Mexico City (black) market. But before doing that, he would have had to pay for the transport fees from Portugal to Mexico and the customs duty, of course. Big problem and big trouble that other awarded cartoonists could have had with their bottles of PortoCartoon wine.
As a matter of fact, why not just announce a good nice first prize of 3 500 euros and some wine bottles as a courtesy, instead of 7 000 unrealistic euros ?
We stay in Portugal and travel now to the south where there is an other town, Sintra, not far from Lisbon and also very well known all over the world because of its beautiful site and the former kings and queens who chose this piece of the Portuguese Republic to live in, but also its very important international contest named World Press Cartoon. This event was initiated ten years ago and used to be very successful because of the quality of its organization, its excellent catalog and its very very very high prizes… not paid « half in wine » but all in cash. I say « used to » because this year, as it happens, the new mayor has decided to stop supporting this contest for budgetary reasons after having said to the organizers that the contest could go on. So, it seems that everything was organized as usual but had to be stopped in the middle of the river crossing because of the mayor’s decision. Many cartoonists had already sent their cartoons to the World Press Cartoon but the members of the jury couldn’t go to Portugal because there was no money to pay for their flight tickets, hotel bills, meals and drinking… Sintra wine. Surely, it’s really a pity that this kind of artistic and cultural event, with a very rich history and so famous among the cartoonists community, depends on a political change and the decision of just one person.
We all know that things of life are very fragile, but it seems that the cartoons life is more and more fragile indeed. And, as a Portuguese-French cartoonist, that troubles me a lot. So does it to you, I’m sure.
Carlos Brito, vice president general of FECO
with the agreement of the international board
Source: fecocartoon.

Results of the 19th International Cartoon Exhibition Zagreb 2014, Croatia

The 19th International Exhibition of Cartoon ZAGREB 2014
has seen the arrival of 536 works of 248 authors from 51 countries.
Theme: Inventions Throughout History

THE WINNERS
FIRST PRIZE: DORU AXINTE, Romania (Top)

SECOND PRIZE: PAVEL CONSTANTIN, Romania

THIRD PRIZE: JOSIP KOVAČEVIĆ, Croatia

SPECIAL MENTIONS

MARCO D’AGOSTINO, Italy

MOJMIR MIHATOV, Croatia

BORIS ERENBURG, Israel

FELIPE GALINDO, S.A.D.

PAWEL DELEKTA, Poland.
List of Participants.

Results III International competition "Ukrainian choice. Ukraine – the European Union" 2014

The results of the III International competition of cartoons and caricatures
"Ukrainian choice. Ukraine – the European Union".
WINNERS
The FIRST PRIZE and big "Rudoi Panko" bronze figurine was received by
Victor Holub from Zdolbunov, Ukraine (Top).
The second place and small "Rudoi Panko" bronze figurine was received by
Sergei Tunin from Moscow, Russia.
The third place and "Rudy Panko" wooden figurine was received by
Valery Tarasenko from Pskov, Russia.
Diplomas of competition gained:
1 . Luís Paul, Australia
2 . Ivaylo Tsvetkov, Bulgaria
3 . Wlamir Rodriguez, Brazil.
4 . Jin Xiao Xing, China.
5 . Zbignev Pishchako, Poland.
 6.Tadeusz Krotos, Poland
Ukraine
1 . Andrey Levchenko, Poltava.
2 . Dmitry Skazhenik, Mariupol.
3 . Filip Marushchak, Kiev.
4 . Oleg Loktev, Zaporozhye.
Russia
1 . Victor Bogorad, St.Petersburg.
2 . Nikolay Rachkov, Moscow.
3 . Igor Smirnov, Moscow.
Belarus
1 . Oleg Gutsol, Minsk.
Total catalog of a caricature and cartoons "Ukrainian choice. Ukraine -European Union"
is prepared for printing. It will be sent to authors till July 1, 2014.
In the catalog of a cartoons/caricatures of authors which passed in
the first round of competition are selected.
It is possible to order additional copies with an advance payment.
Advance payment conditions: http://art-krug.com/Content/show/page/reklama
Selected Artists.

Results of the 9th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2014

J u r y
1-Bernard Bouton /France
2-Horia CRISAN /Romania
3-Rahim Baghal Asgari /Iran
4-Dr.Maher Alkhouli/ Syria
5-Naji Benaji /Morocco
6-Zdenko Puhin /Croatia
Director: Raed Khalil
WINNERS:
1-Theme: Nidal Sijery (portrait)
GOLDEN PRIZE:
Saman Torabi/Iran
Passaprawas A-chinoboonwat/THAILAND (Top)
Ivailo Tsvetkov/BULGARIA
SILVER PRIZE:
Hadi Asadi/Iran
Hule Hanusic/AUSTRIA
Shankar Pamarthy/India
BRONZE PRIZE:
Arash Foroughi/IRAN
Fadi Fadel/Syria
Brahim Idlhaj/Morocco
Aref Niazi/Iran
SPECIAL PRIZE:
Walter Toscano/PERO
Usman Yulianto/Indonisia
Vahid Alimohamadi/Iran
Redwan Al ferekh/Lebanon
Omar Sedeek/Egypt.
2-Theme: THE THEATER
GOLDEN PRIZE:
Bayram Hajizadeh/Azerbaijan
Elena Ospina/Colombia
Mehdi Azizi/Iran
SILVER PRIZE:
Ashmarin Stanislav/Russia
Damir Novak/Croatia
Oleksy Kustovsky/Ukraine
BRONZE PRIZE:
Borislav Stankovic Stabor/Serbia
Doru Axinte/Romania
Kazanevsky Vladimir/Ukraine
Seyran Caferli/Azerbaijan
SPECIAL PRIZE:
Jaksa Vlahovic/ SERBIA
Oleg LOKTYEV/Ukraina
Shahram Rezaei /IRAN
Spiro RADULOVIC/Serbia.
All winning works in PDF.
Source: raedcartoon.