1st year of Drawn Humor Competition, Seeing of the Unseeing - and Seeing 2015, Slovakia

Non-profit organisation SINA Nitra n.o.
First year of drawn humor competition
Seeing of the unseeing – and seeing

Topic: drawn humor about people, whose sight is completely or partially missing and about sight in general.
Target: By humor, we want to remind people about how important sight is in human life and what barriers must be broke by the people whose sight is missing.
Note: Don’t be worried about this topic. You’ll find examples on how access it on the web that is mentioned below.
Competition propositions:
1. The competition is declared in two age categories.
A category – authors above 18 years
B category – authors to 18 years.
2. Every author can participate in the competition with minimum two former works in original, including graphic techniques.
3. The competition is open for everyone. The way of creative processing is not limited.
4. The format of the works is free, A4 is recommended but it cannot exceed A3 format.
5. The competition is not anonymous. Every contribution must be tagged by a name, complete address, birth date and contact info of the author on the back side.
6. Rewarded works become property of the organisator. Other works can be returned by the autor’s request.
7. All sent works can be used for propagational purposes of the competition and for forfilling the organisator’s mission – helping people with sight problems.
8. The selected works will be processed to a relief form for accessing the work by touch with the description in Braill’s font and enlarged font.
9. By attending the competition, the author agrees with it’s terms.
10. Please send the contributions until 30th of October 2015 to the address:
SINA Nitra n.p.o., Nedbalova 540/17, 949 11 Nitra, Slovensko
11. The organisator will notify the author electronically (or in written form in case of the E-mail adress’s absence) about the deliverance of his works and their insertion into the competition.
12. In November 2015, a vernissage of an exposition prepared from the best competition works will take place in Nitra at the theatre of Andrej Bagar with the ceremonial declaration of the results and transmitting prizes to the most successful authors depending on the decision of the jury:
Category A:
1st prize: Golden iris and 300 €
2nd prize: Silver iris and 200 €
3rd prize: Bronze iris and 100 €
Category B:
1st prize: Golden iris and a material prize
2nd prize: Silver iris and a material prize
3rd prize: Bronze iris and a material prize
13. In case of other subject’s interest, other expositions can be organised.
14. The Jury of the competition reserves it’s right not to grant one of the prizes or grant other special prizes. On the website (www.hovoriaciweb.sk), the organisator will publish the number of competing people until 30.11.2015, the structure of the jury, the results of the competition and names of the winners.
15. A catalogue and a calendar for the year 2016 will be sent to the selected authors. The calendar will be made from selected works by the organisator.
Contact info of the organisator:
SINA Nitra, non-profit organisation
Nedbalova 540/17
949 11 Nitra
hovoriaciweb@gmail.com
www.hovoriaciweb.sk
Contact:
Josef Zbranek, n.p.o manager
This project has been financially supported by the Ministry of culture of the Slovak Republic.
Source: hovoriaciweb.

The results of the 11th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2015

T h e m e s
Cartoon: The Victory
Caricature section: FREE
In spite of the bad circumstances that Syria is going through ...
but the large number of participations stressed the importance of
Syria International Gallery of Caricature 2015.
300 artists from 71 countries participated under
the big and important title “The victory”.
The Jury:
1 - Alireza Pakdel / Iran
2 - Haydar Alyasiry / Iraq
3 - Mowafaq Farzat / Kuwait/Syria
4 - ‏‎Esam Hanafy / Egypt
5 - Naji Benaji / Morocco.
WINNERS
Cartoon section / The Victory:
First Prize: Mihai Ignat - Romania
Second Prize: Jitet Kustana - Indonesia (Top)
Third Prize: Mohammad Saleh Razmhosseini - Iran
SPECIAL PRIZES
Afri Diyansyah - Indonesia
Ciosu Constantin - Romaina
Milenko Kosanovic - Serbia
Paolo Dalponte - Italy
Samer Alshmarei - Yemen.
Caricature section:
First Prize: Arash Foroughi - Iran
Second Prize: Guaico - Colombia
Third Prize: Walter Alvarez Toscano - Peru
SPECIAL PRIZES
Emad Salehi - Iran
J. Bosco Jacó de Azevedo - Brazil
Mohammadreza Abbaspour - Iran
Ulisses José de Araujo - Brazil
Yusef Alimohamadi - Iran.
All prize-winning cartoons on raedcartoon.

Catalog OSTEN 46th WGC 2015 arrives from Skopje, Macedonia

Received today the new catalog OSTEN 46th World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje 2015, Macedonia. 64 pages in color with the size of 20x22 cm cover 120 selected cartoons including the awarded ones. The selectors were the Bulgarian cartoonists Alla & Chavdar Georgievi for this edition and there were also the international jury of course to award the best of the selected. They had received 680 works by 206 cartoonists from 50 countries worldwide. All originals, that is hand drawn cartoons, satiric drawings and comics in any technique on paper.
Yet, OSTEN does also pay considerable attention to new trends and organize thematic contests for digital cartoons too, so they can meet the expectation of those artists who are more comfortable with the digital production. The present one is on topic of Beer!!! with the deadline of 20 September 2015.
In addition, this year - on the 70-year anniversary of the World Gallery of Cartoons, they will launch an online platform osten4art.com - where all activities of OSTEN art on paper are integrated.
The info I quote from the Thank You Note letter, received along with the certificate in the catalog, by Mice Jankulovski, Director of OSTEN.
The catalog is also published online where you might read more about the competition and see the prize-winning and the selected pieces of humoristic art here in PDF.
More info on website: http://www.osten.com.mk/.

International Festival of Portraits and Caricatures 2016 with theme: Romanian Personalities

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PORTRAITS AND CARICATURES 2016

1. THEME: ROMANIAN PERSONALITIES
The competition have 10 sections:
- Mihai Eminescu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu)
- Ion Luca Caragiale (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Luca_Caragiale)
- Constantin Brancusi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Brâncuși)
- Eugène Ionesco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Ionesco)
- Emil Cioran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran)
- Mircea Eliade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade)
- George Enescu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Enescu)
- Tristan Tzara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara)
- Romanian royal family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_royal_family)
- Other Romanian personalities.
2. Each artist may participate in one or more sections.
3. It is preferred artworks made by classical techniques, but digital artworks will be also accepted.
4. The number of drawings, dimension drawings, technique: at the author's choice.
5. For each section will be awarded four prizes: Grand Prize, First Prize, Second Prize and Third Prize. As well, will be awarded some special prizes.
6. The artworks will be published in the album ROMANIA - A PLANETARY TRIBUTE with the occasion of celebration 100 years of the Romanian national state.
7. The artworks will be sent to the organizers till date of March 1, 2016. It will organize an exhibition and if it will be appropriate will travel to various cities.
8. All drawings posted, must be sent also at resolution 300 dpi, best quality, to ionita_ploiesti@yahoo.ro
The drawings selected for awards must be sent by post.
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tOOns MaG First International Cartoon Contest 2016, Norway

tOOns MaG First International Cartoon Contest 2016, Norway
Theme: Women Rights.
Deadline: 20 February 2016
Size: A4 / A3, 300 DPI.
Prizes:
1st place prize: Wacom Intuos Pen & Touch Medium and certificate.
2nd place prize: Wacom Intuos Pen & Touch Small and certificate.
3rd place Prize: Wacom Intuos Pen Small and certificate.
And an additional 7 cartoonists will receive Honorable Mention Awards certificates.
Rules:
1. Any cartoonist can participate in this contest.
2. The cartoons should be original and must not be formerly published. Copied workes are not accepted.
3. Participants may send a maximum of 5 works, in black and white or color, and preferably without text. In case of including a text, it must be in English.
4. A group of International jury will make a selection out of the submitted cartoons which are to be exhibited and published in www.toonsmag.com.
5. The International Jury members will be considered as participants in the exhibition and represent their own countries. Their names will be automatically added to the List of Participants (They will participate only in the exhibition and not contest as a part of the honorary participation).
6. Cartoons can be used for any promotion purposes (Printing, Websites, Newspapers, Calendar, Posters, Invitation cards etc.) without the permission of the cartoonist and without any payment.
7. Cartoons have to be sent to the following email address: wr@toonsmag.com with Cartoonist’s recent C.V. , address (in doc. format) and a personal photo.
8. tOOns MaG reserves the rights to change the date or any other condition of the contest.
We will publish the results of contest on March, 8th, 2016, International women’s day.
For further information please visit www.toonsmag.com.

Theme in the 24th Cartoon Contest Golden Helmet, Krusevac 2016, Serbia: National Cuisine

GOLDEN HELMET ANNOUNCES XXIV CONTEST TITLED NATIONAL CUISINE
CATEGORIES
1. CARTOON
2. WRITTEN FORM
- Story
- Poem
- Aphorism
PROPOSITIONS
1. CARTOON: ORIGINAL, MIN. A4 (210x297 mm), MAX A3 (297x420 mm), TECHNIQUE FREE;
2. WRITTEN FORM: MAXIMUM TWO TYPED PAGES OR UP TO 20 APHORISMS
AWARDS
CARTOON
1ST AWARD: PLAQUE GOLDEN HELMET...800 €...ONE-MAN EXIBITION IN 2017.
2ND AWARD...400 €
3RD AWARD...200 €
WRITTEN FORM
STORY: PLAQUE GOLDEN HELMET...200 €
POEM: PLAQUE GOLDEN HELMET...200 €
APHORISM: PLAQUE GOLDEN HELMET...200 €
SPECIAL AWARD RADE BRKA...200 €
Written works to be sent under a code!
DEADLINE: 25. 01. 2016.
Only unpublished works will be taken into consideration.
Author's short biography, phone number and e-mail address are obligatory.
Jury decision will be announced on 06. 02. 2016.
Awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1, 2016.
The Organizer will bear travel and accommodation cost of awarded authors.
Festival official langauges are Serbian and English.
All works remain property of the Festival.
Entry Form on source.
Address: Kulturni centar Kruševac
Toplicina br. 2; 37000 Kruševac SERBIA
tel: +381 (0)37 / 423 025, 421 877
e-mail: goldenhelmet@kck.org.rs
zlatnakaciga@kck.org.rs
kck@kck.org.rs
WEB: www.kck.org.rs.

7th International Tourism Cartoons Competition 2015, Turkey

Theme
The theme of the competition in 2015 is Tourism and Peace.
Categories
Cartoons will be accepted in two sections:
Category of Adult Cartoonists: This category is open for the all of cartoonists who are 17 and older. Category should be noted when cartoons are submitting. Grand award, second award, third award, Professor Atila Özer recognition award and three mentions will be given in this section. Finalist cartoons in this section will be published in the album.
Category of Young Cartoonists: This category is open for the cartoonists who are 16 and younger. Category should be noted when cartoons are submitting. Grand award and two achievement awards will be given in this section. Finalist cartoons in this section will be published in the album.
Submission Guidelines
* The competition is open to all amateur and professional cartoonists.
* Each performer is allowed to submit maximum three works.
* The cartoons submitted to the competition may be prepared as original drawings, digital printings or computer printouts. The drawing technique is open-ended. Drawings may be colorful or black and white. On the other hand, performers are required to put signatures on their drawings.
* Participants must write their names, surnames and addresses behind their drawings. Also, they must complete the Participant Information Form placed under submission page and send it together with their drawings.
* Cartoons sent may be of the ones previously published somewhere but previously awarded cartoons are not allowed to submit.
* Cartoons submitted for selection will be able to be printed in Anatolia: A Journal of Tourism Research and Association of Tourism Writers and Journalists and in other printed materials of this organization such as books, catalogs, brochures, postcards, web sites and posters. All rights for any other publishing except these belong to the owner of drawing.
* The cartoons that will be selected after the first evulation will be announced between February 1 and 10, 2016. The objections will took into account between Februrary 1 and 10, 2016.
* Finalist cartoons will be published in the album. Cartoonists whose drawings published in this album will be sent a copy of the album.
* Regardless of award-winning or taking place in the album, all the cartoons submitted for selection will not be returned.
* All the cartoonists participated in the competition are implied to agree on the conditions and regulations of the competition.
* Cartoons can be sent by way of postal service or Cartoon Submission system.
* Submission deadline is 31 December 2015.
* The cartoons can be mailed to the below address:
Nazmi KOZAK
Anadolu University,
Faculty of Tourism
Yunus Emre Campus,
26470 Eskisehir/TURKEY
*
More in languages on source.

Final Results of the 4th International Olive Cartoon Contest 2015, Kyrenia - Cyprus

MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA
CYPRIOT – TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION
FINAL RESULTS
4. INTERNATIONAL OLIVE CARTOON CONTEST 2015
(KYRENIA – CYPRUS)
INTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBERS:
John A. Lent – Jury President (USA), Musa Kayra (Cyprus), M. Serhan Gazioğlu (Cyprus), Grigoris Georgiou (Greece), Muhittin Köroğlu (Turkey), Derman Atik (Cyprus), Hayati Boyacıoğlu (Germany), Mustafa Azizoğlu (Cyprus), Yordanka Lyubenova Shiyakova (Bulgaria), Hüseyin Çakmak (Cyprus).
Country: 56
Participant: 226
Work: 457
PRIZE LIST

First Prize: 1.000 Euro + Gold Olive
Vladimir Stankovski (Serbia)

Second Prize: 800 Euro + Silver Olive
Raul Alfonso Grisales (Colombia)

Third Prize: 600 Euro + Bronz Olive
Muammer Kotbaş (Turkey).

SPECIAL PRIZES

Farzane Vaziritabar (Iran)

Kürşat Zaman (Turkey)

Valeri Alexandrov (Bulgaria)

Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan)

Ali Miraee (Iran)

Cengiz Beysoydan (Cyprus)

Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria)

Aurel Ştefan Alexandrescu (Romania)

Kemal Özyurt (Turkey)

Luc Vernimmen (Belgium)

Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu (Turkey)

Menekşe Çam (Turkey)

Bossens Philippe (Belgium).

SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE ORGANIZATION
Mehmet Kahraman (Turkey)
International Journal of Comic Art Special Prize.
Leyla Çınar Algül (Cyprus)
Federation Cartoonists Organizations (FECO - CYPRUS) Special Prize.
Andrea Pecchia (Italia)
Federation Cartoonists Organizations (FECO - GREECE) Special Prize.
Sanaz Yahyavi (Iran)
Cartoon Publishing Special Prize.
Serpil Kar (Turkey)
Olive Festival Special Prize.
Hakan Boral (Cyprus)
Cyprus - Turkish Cartoonists Special Prize.
Andrei Popov (Russia)
Fire Humour Magazine Special Prize.
Shahram Rezai (Iran)
New Scorpion Cartoon and Humour Magazine Special Prize.

(*) The transfer and accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win the first six awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
Only the accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win particular/distinctive awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.

First International Graphic Humour Competition About Labour Rights 2015, Spain

First International Graphic Humour Competition About Labour Rights

Participation rules:
1. This contest is open to all participants over 18 years of age, either amateur or professional cartoonists.
2. The contest theme is “Graphic Humour about Labour Rights”. The starting points include: working conditions, functional diversity and work, right to work, the informal economy, equality and discrimination at work, gender equality, freedom of association, labour migration, maternity protection, job insecurity, social protection, pensions, wages, health and safety at work, working hours, decent work, domestic work, child labour, juvenile labour, forced labour, human trafficking and slavery. Anything.
3. The participants can send a maximum of 3 original papers to the contest.
4. Entries may be made ​​by any painting technique.
5. The format is free.
6. Works can be without words, or in Catalan, Spanish, English, French or Arabic.
7. The works are to be emailed to the address humorgraficidretslaborals@cgtcatalunya.cat at 300 DPI point resolution in JPG or JPEG format and/or by post mail to Via Laietana 18, 9a Planta – 08003, Barcelona.
8. The registration for the competition, a participation form has to have the author’s signature and a copy of the works, and can be delivered by certified post to the following address: 1st Concurs International d’ Humor Gràfic i Drets Laborals , Via Laietana 18 , 9th Floor – 08003 , Barcelona. This must contain the information specified in paragraph 7.
9. The deadline for entries is August 31, 2015 at 24:00 (Central European Time or Barcelona time).
10. A card that includes the name, surname, Postcard and e-mail address, telephone contact, a picture or cartoon of the author, and a brief summary of their path as an artist must accompany the presentation of the works.
11. Awards will be issued: a) First prize € 600 , b ) Second prize € 300 , c ) Third prize € 100, and 4 runner-up prizes of € 100 for each of the following themes: Union repression, Family and Labour Conciliation, Social Economy, Occupational health.
12. The judges’ decision is final.
13. The composition of the jury will be announced at the time when the result of the competition has been communicated, but it will consist of a cartoonist, one labour lawyer, a member of CGT -Catalunya and an appointed member of l’Oliva.
14. The Jury’s decision shall be notified to the authors of the winning entries during September 2015 by email and subsequently published in the blog and networks of the competition.
15. The first 80 selected works will fuel the exhibition “Graphic Humour about Labour Rights“, to create educational and / or information and / or awareness materials convenor deem appropriate. The use of a work shall always be accompanied by the mention of the authorship of the drawing, provided we are not notified otherwise.
16. The electronic version of all works submitted to the contest will be seen in the Virtual Gallery to be published later in the Contest`s digital communication and virtual tools and the virtual CGT -Catalunya and l‘Oliva organization virtual spaces.
17. CGT-Catalunya and l’Oliva organization will be able to copy, distribute and play the leftovers received without express permission of the author without this representing any kind of obligation with respect to the author by the organizers, and all materials generated will have framed the intellectual property policy of copy theft. The benefits that can be achieved dissemination, copying or reproduction of participating works will be reinvested in full how to continue the project that l’Oliva and CGT-Catalunya develops.
18. The organizers will resolve any issues that may occur and are not covered by these rules.
19. Participation in the contest implies acceptance of these rules.
Rules in languages on source.

Selected participants in the XVII International Cartoon Contest Zielona Góra 2015, Poland

XVII INTERNATIONAL OPEN CARTOON CONTEST „Business trip” Zielona Góra 2015, Poland
Contestants whose works have been admitted to the post-contest exhibition (symbol *)
ARGENTINA
Pablo Diaz*
Adrian Anibal Palmas
Daniel Eduardo Varela*
AUSTRALIA
Louis PoL*
BELGIUM
Luc Vernimmen*
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Mahmud Latifić*
Rešad Sultanović
BULGARIA
Valeri Alexandrov-Walex*
Valentin Georgiev*
Trayko Popov*
Anatoliy Stankulov*
Ivailo Tsvetkov*
Veselin Zidarov*
CHILE
Horacio Brandi Walsen*
CHINA
Jingsan Li*
CROATIA
Ana Gezi*
Borislav Hegedušić*
Darijan Kućko
MONTENEGRO
Darko Drljević*
CZECH REPUBLIC
Evžen David*
Břetislav Kovařik*
Jiři Novak*
Jiři Srna*
EGYPT
Wesam Khalil*
FINLAND
Heino Partanen
FRANCE
Gerald Peigneux
GREECE
Serafim Bakoulis*
Grigoris Georgiou*
SPAIN
Jesus Rodriguez*
NETHERLANDS
Anneke van Steijn*
IRAN
Mehdi Afradi*
ISRAEL
Boris Erenburg*
Roy Friedler
Grigori Katz*
Ilya Katz*
Halina Reshef
Kfir Weizman*
JAPAN
Noriaki Ishiyama*
CANADA
Andrzej Pijet*
CUBA
Roberto Sergio Castillo Rodriguez*
GERMANY
Burkhard Fritsche*
Frank Hoffmann*
Helmut Jaček*
Steffen Jahsnowski-Herschel*
Pavel Taussig
NIGERIA
Azuka Nwokocha*
POLAND
Katarzyna Bauer
Przemysław Bukowski
Henryk Cebula*
Kamila Chorociej*
Marzena Ciechanowska
Marek Czarnik
Anna Damicz-Wejs
Anna Domaszewska
Areta Fedak*
Jerzy Fedro*
Artur Galicki*
Czesław Gańko*
Marek Gliwa
Michał Graczyk*
Michalina Grygiel
Piotr Hofman
Jerzy Jakubów
Żaneta Kapek*
Robert Kempisty*
Damian Kluziński
Zbigniew Kołaczek*
Andrzej Kołodziej
Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek*
Magda Kozieł-Nowak*
Zbigniew Kucia*
Piotr Kuczyński*
Katarzyna Kuzior*
Jakub Kwiatkowski
Jacek Lanckoroński*
Artur Ligenza*
Jacek Majcherkiewicz*
Sławomir Makal*
Maciej Michalski*
Milena Molenda*
Dariusz Mrożek
Paweł Nawrot
Magdalena Olszak
Katarzyna Piróg*
Beata Joanna Przedpełska
Czesław Przęzak*
Radosław Ruciński*
Paweł Stańczyk*
Jan Surma
Krzysztof Suski*
Karol Szczepankiewicz*
Maciej Trzepałka*
Damian Waliczek*
Grzegorz Weigt*
Jarosław Wojtasiński*
Magdalena Wosik*
Piotr Zaraś*
Radosław Zaremba
RUSSIA
Sergey Drozdov*
Vladimir Tyurin
ROMANIA
Felix Artuche
Doru Axinte*
Mihai-Gabriel Boboc*
Cornel-Marin Chiorean*
Pavel Constantin*
Octavian Covaci*
Marian Lupu
Andrei Septimiu Misaila
Bogdan Petry & Horia Crişan*
Adrian Rus
Liviu Stãnilã*
SERBIA
Sava Babić*
Filip Karan
Vaso Krčmar
Milah Kusmuk
Rastko Lulić
Jovan Dominik Marolt
Mileta Miloradović*
Jovan Prokopljević*
SLOVAKIA
Bobo Pernecky*
SWITZERLAND
Silvan Wegmann
TURKEY
Erdogan Basol*
Ferhat Demirbas
Somer Ercűment*
Saraç Firat
Musa Gumus*
Reva Özgüven*
Kemal Ozyurt*
UKRAINE
Valeriy Chmyriov*
Aleksander Dubovsky*
Mykola Kapusta*
Konstantin Kazanchev*
Vladimir Kazanevsky*
Oleksy Kustovsky*
Valery Momot*
Olga Synyszyn*
Alexandr Zhytnikov*
USA
Andrzej Pacułt
Marco Ramos*
Andrzej Szczepaniec*
UZBEKISTAN
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov*
Husan M. Sodiqov
Farrukh Teshaev
Furkat Usmanov
UNITED KINGDOM
Stephen Mumberson
ITALY
Andrea Pecchia*.
Source: sadurski 2015-07-13.

47th World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje 2016, Republic of Macedonia

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More info + Application Form in PDF here.