Stuttgart Award 2008 deadline extended

Stuttgart, 19. Mai 2008
nf / Tel. 0711 / 22 28 –279
eMail: stuttgart-award@stuttgart-tourist.de
STUTTGART AWARD 2008 for cartoon und caricature
Deadline has been extended!
Already for the third time, Stuttgart-Marketing GmbH as the official tourism partner of the state capital of Stuttgart is announcing the STUTTGART AWARD. This year´s motto of the international contest for cartoon and caricature is “The World of Wine”. The contest is open to professional as well as semi-professional cartoonists and caricaturists. The first prize is awarded with € 5.000.
Every day, fascinating works of art are received at Stuttgart-Marketing – up to now hundreds of works from around 50 countries have been counted. In order to give more cartoonists and caricaturists the chance to participate in the contest, the deadline for the receipt of works of art has been extended til May, 30th 2008. More information as well as the conditions of participation are available at http://www.stuttgart-award.com/.
Artists, who would like ot take part in the STUTTGART AWARD 2008 – “The world of wine”, can submit up to three cartoons and up to three caricatures. Submissions are accepted via regular mail or e-mail. All works honoured, as well as a representative selection of submitted cartoons and caricatures, will be shown in several exhibitions, as e.g. in the State Museum of Württemberg (Landesmuseum Württemberg im Alten Schloss) or in the Stuttgart Viticulture Museum (Weinbaumuseum Uhlbach).
Read previous post: http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/2008/03/stuttgart-award-2008-germany.html

International Contest Godofredo Guedes’ Centenary

International Caricature Contest Godofredo Guedes’ Centenary - Brazil
Montes Claros’ administration through the municipal culture secretary and Brazilcartoon, opens the International Godofredo Guedes’ Centenary Caricature Contest in homage to the important graphic artist and instrumentist, composer and instrument fabricant.
Godofrendo, Godô, as he was kindly named, was born in august 15 on the city Riacho de Santana, Bahia, in 1908. In 1953 he moved to Montes Claros / MG. He began to dominate the brush before he was 15, in 1923. His first work was “Nosso Senhor Bom Jesus da Lapa”, made by oil. As the years went by he became a reference in painting portraits and beautiful landscapes, North of Minas’ hinterlands scenes.
Godofredo was also an influence to the beginning of advertising in Montes Claros, producing painted signs to local commerce. In music he had a most important role in compositions that are nationally known such as “CANTAR”. which have already been recorded by Milton Nascimento and Paula Toler, as well as his own son, the singer and composer Beto Guedes.Godofredo went beyond the mounts, in Minas’ capital, where he collaborated in the creation of the art market in Belo Horizonte, in Liberdade Square.
The imortal Godofredo have always had painting and music in his blood, and contributed immensely with the cultural formation of Montes Claros. He left a valuable inheritance of compositions and paintings, and also created an instrument, pentacorde, that have and particular sound.
The City Montes Claros, Brazilcartoon’s home, opens the celebrations of Godofredo Guedes’ centenary with several festivities, in order to retribute to the great cultural collaboration of this talented artist: Godofredo Guedes.
Montes Claros is located in the north portion of Minas Gerais. It is an important academic pole and the cultural crib that has already projected great artists in national and international scene such as the writer Darcy Ribeiro, the illustrator and cartoonist Marcelo Lélis, the singer and composer Beto Guedes, one of the integrants of MPB movement, Clube da Esquina. Konstantin Christoff, humor painter known internationally, Carlos Muniz, cartoonist, and Márcio Leite, Brazilcartoon’s director.



International Godofredo Guedes’ Centenary Contest’s Regulation
1 - Any person can participate the Contest, except Culture Secretary’s and Brazilcartoon’s workers and organization staff.
2 - Participants: The competition is open to all amateur cartoonists, professionals and students
3 - The unknown works shall be presented in vertical, format 30cm x 40 cm
4 - Each contestant may participate with only 1 (one) work.
5 - Techinique is free.
6 - Only original works will be accepted. Digital works shall be signed by the artist’s hand. In the back of each work shall present the following information: Author’s full name, full address with zip-code, phone number, CIC, Identity, bank data and e-mail
7- The works can be registrated personally or by mail. The final prize to registration is 31/10/2008, counting the publishing date. Brazilcartoon’s site won’t be responsible by any damage occurred during the publishing.
OBS.: The under-age participants shall send, written down, the autorization of the parents of responsible.
8- Category: Caricature
Caricature Concept – Graphic representation with funny anatomic distortions of known personalities
9 – The participants shall fill the registration form and send the drawings, in the same envelope, to the following address:
Salão Internacional de Caricaturas, Centenário Godofredo Guedes, Rua São Francisco, 666, Centro, Cep: 39400-048 Montes Claros / MG, BRAZIL
Mais informações: (38) 3216-1109 info@brazilcartoon.com
Coordination: Walkiria Braga walkiriabraga@hotmail.com
10 – Registrations: 19 / 05 to 31 / 10 de 2008
11 – The result will be published in November 21, 2008
12 – Brazilcartoon will show on its site http://www.brazilcartoon.com/ a gallery with all the selected and awarded drawings.
13- Drawings sent to the competition won’t be returned.
14 – Prizes
1st place: R$ 2.000 + trophy
2nd place: R$ 1.000 + trophy
3rd place: R$ 500 + trophy
New Talent’s Award – R$ 500 + trophy. This category is dedicated to amateur artists untill 16 years old.
OBS.: Brazilcartoon will participate the event through the divulgation, judgment and organization, but it won’t be responsible by the awarding of it. The prizes’ payment and the trophies are entire responsibility of Montes Claros’ Municipal Government.
15 – Authorial rights
The organization staff reserve the right to veto the participation of those whose work’s subject won’t fit the contest’s proposal. The organization may use the works sent to divulgate the event and in Brazilcartoon. The registration of the International Godofredo Guedes’ centenary Contest implicates in total and unrestricted acceptance of the conditions above described.
Fotos Godofredo Guedes and Registration form at: http://www.brazilcartoon.com/

20th Olense Kartoenale - Belgium

20° Olense Kartoenale 2008 - Belgium
Annual Cartoon Contest – Rules and regulation 2008
1. Participation
All contestants will be admitted with no distinction made regarding nationality or age.
There are two categories:
· Youth category up to 15 years inclusive;
· Adult category: 16 years and older.
2. Theme
The theme is „Extreme sports & strange hobbies“.
3. Entries
· Original cartoons in black and white or colour, may bear no captions.
· Dimensions including any passe-partout 21 x 30 cm.
· Works sent rolled and works larger than DIN A4 will not be returned.
· Number of entries per contestant: maximum five.
4. Property rights
Prize-winning works will become the property of the organizer or the major sponsors.

All works selected may be used by the organizers to promote the contest and the village of Olen.
5. Catalogue/Cartoon book
Selected works will be considered for inclusion in a catalogue. The authors of these works will receive a free copy of the catalogue during the prize ceremony or it will be send afterwards by mail.
6. Return mail
Return of the cartoons happens only on explicit request of the participant. In that case the return of the works will take place at organizers’ cost approximately six months after the ‘deadline’.
The organizers will endeavour to handle the return forwardings with the utmost care but cannot be held responsible for loss or damages.
7. Deadline
The deadline is 22 September 2008.
The entry form and the cartoon(s) must be send to:

Olense Kartoenale Gemeentehuis Dorp 1, B-2250 Olen Belgium
8. Prizes
For the adult category:
1st prize: 1000 euro
2nd prize: 300 euro

3rd prize: 200 euro

4th prize: 150 euro
5th prize: 125 euro

For the youth category:

1st prize: 200 euro

2nd prize: 175 euro

3rd prize: 150 euro

4th prize: 100 euro
Only for Belgian participants:
Prize of the province of Antwerp: week-end (youth and adult category)
9. Prize Ceremony and Exhibition
The prize ceremony will take place at Friday 14th of November 2008 at approximately 20.00 h in the council room of the town hall of Olen, Dorp 1, 2250 Olen. Every participating artist will be welcome on that occasion.
A selection of the cartoons will also be exhibited at the same address and can be visited:
· Sunday 16th of November 2008
· All working days from Monday 17th of November 2008 till 19th of December 2008 during the opening hours of the town hall.

WEB: http://www.olen.be/olense%20kartoenale/3231/default.aspx?_vs=0_N&id=1019&pg=1227
Complete regulations & entry-form: http://www.olen.be/file_uploads/1714.pdf?_vs=0_N

Results 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

Results of 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

The Jury:
Rumen Dragostinov (cartoonist) - Bulgaria
Muhittin Koroglu (cartoonist) - Turkey
Marcio Leite da Silva (cartoonist) - BRAZIL
Mohammad Amin Aghaei (cartoonist) - Iran
Julian PENA-PAI (cartoonist) - ROMANIA
Mahmoud Saheen (Critic reviewer) – Syria
Hasan M. Yousef (Journalist & writer) - Syria
Morhaf Yousef - (cartoonist) - Syria

WINNERS

Grand Prize: Constantine Ciosu – Romania

Cartoon Theme, Culture and Art:

Golden Prize: Jugoslav Vlahovic –Serbia

Silver Prize: Payam Pourfalah – IRAN

Bronze Prize: Frackiewicz JACEK- Poland

Caricature:
Golden Prize: Zhu Zizun-China
Silver Prize: Amin Montazeri – IRAN
Bronze Prize : Ivailo Tsvetkov –Bulgaria

FREE:
Golden Prize: Bahram Azimi –IRAN
Silver Prize: Jugoslav Vlahovic –Serbia
Bronze Prize : Sevda Jannati Rad –IRAN

Special Prize:
Florin Balaban- Luxembourg
Afraa al Yousef – Syria
Rahim Baggal Asgari – IRAN
Agim Sulaj – Albania
Alessandro Gatto – ITALY
Julio Carriَn Cueva -KARRY- Peru
Jiang Lidong – China
Atila Ozer – Turkey
Ligarribay Luis – Brazil
Ferreol Murillo Fuentes - Costa Rica
Hani Abbas – Palestine
Yaser Ahmed – Syria
Bobo Pernecky- Slovakia

Honorable mentions:
Damir NOVAK – CROATIA
Athanassios Efthimiadis – GREECE
Yuriy KOSOBUKIN – Ukraine
Hossein Rahimkhani – IRAN
Jabbar ABDOLEE -IRAN
Manuel Sainz Serrano - Spain
Marzeyah REZAIE – IRAN
Naeimeh Nicouray - IRAN
Neda Tanhaei MOGHADDAM - IRAN
Roman Kubec – CZECH
Shahin Kalantary - IRAN
Shahram REZAEI - IRAN
Shahid Atiqullah – Switzerland
Shahrokh HEIDARI – IRAN
Silvano Rosa Mooncalves de Melo - BRAZIL
Valentin Druzhinin – Russia
Valeri Kurtu - GERMANY
Zoran JOSIC – Slovenia
JALAL PIRMARZABAD – IRAN
John Carlos Mattias - Brazil
Luiz Claudio Luzca Barros –BRAZIL
Ivailo Tsvetkov – BULGARIA
Zhu ZIZUN – CHINA
Abdullah ASAAD – SYRIA
AGILI ELABIDI – LIBYA
Aidarbek Gazizov – Kazakhstan
Aleksandr Blatnik - Serbia
Alexey I. GVARDIN – UZBEKISTAN
Alexei Talimonov - GREAT BRITAIN
ALI AGHAEY – IRAN
B. A. BILIG - CHINA
Bayram HACIZADEH – AZERBAIJAN
Benjasit TUMYING - THAILAND
Berarani Kamel – ALGERIA
Bernard BOUTON – FRANCE
Constantin Ciosu – ROMANIA
Daniel SAHDE (DAS) – JAPAN
David Evzen – CZECH
Dawood Deldar – IRAN
Didie SW – INDONESIA
Douha Al Khatib – Syria
Dragan Velickovic – Serbia
Dubinin Valentin - RUSSIA
Dubovsky Alexander – UKRAINE
ENN EHALA - Estonia
Fadi ABU HASSAN - Syria
Fahd Bahady – SYRIA
Firuz Kutal - Norway
Gai YU – CHINA
Gopal SARKAR – INDIA
Goran Divac – SERBIA
Grigoris GEORGIOU - GREECE
GUL`MIRA AZIZOVA – UZBEKISTAN
Horia CRISAN - ROMANIA
Igor Nikitin – RUSSIA
Ivan Anchukov – RUSSIA
Jaber Asadi – IRAN
Jaksa Vlahovic – SERBIA
Jordan Pop-Iliev - Macedonia
Jwan Zero – SYRIA
Li Xiaoyang – CHINA
Louis POL – AUSTRALIA
Luka Lagator – MONTENEGRO
Mahdieh Shafiei – IRAN
Mahmood Nazari-IRAN
Makhmudjon ESHONKULOV – Uzbekistan
Marian Trutulesu – ROMANIA
Marjan Malek Mahmoodi –IRAN
Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei – IRAN
Mihaita PORUMBITA – ROMANIA
Milan Bukovac – SERBIA
Mileta MILORADOVIC – SERBIA
Milos PANIC PANCO – CROATIA
Mohamad Hossein Akbari – IRAN
Mowafaq FARZAT - Kuwait
Mumin Bayram – TURKEY
Musa GUMUS – TURKEY
Mohammad Ali KHALAJI - IRAN
Naji Benaji - MOROCCO
Nedal Deeb – SYRIA
Nedal KHALIL - SYRIA
Nguyenhuu Huey – USA
Nikola OTAS – SERBIA
Nizar OTHMAN – Lebanon
Oguz Gurel –TURKEY
Oleg Dergachov – CANADA
Osama Salti – SYRIA
Pavel Janguirov - ARMENIA
Peter Tjagunov – GERMANY
Rabia AL ARIDI – SYRIA
Radik AZIZOV – UZBEKISTAN
Ramiro Zardoya Sanchez (ZARDOYAS) –CUBA
RAUL DE LA NUES – CUBA
Raquel Orzuj – Uruguay
Resad Sultanovic – Bosnia & Hercegovina
Rooshan Gataullin – RUSSIA
Sadegh Bagheri - IRAN
Sador Mulaj – Hungary
Saeed SADEGHI – IRAN
Sasha DIMITRIJEVIC – SERBIA
Semerenko VLADIMIR - RUSSIA
Serhiy Naberezhnykh – UKRAINE
Seyran CAFERLI – AZERBAIJAN
Tony Houbrechts – BELGIUM
Tsogtbayar Samandari (satso) - Mongolia
Umit Mufit Dincay - TURKEY
Valentine GEORGIEV – BULGARIA
Victor Crudu - MOLDAVIA
Victor Emmanuel Chubasco – Mexico
Vladimir KAZANEVSKY – UKRAINE
WALID NAIF - IRAQ
Xiaoqiang HOU - CHINA
Zaza Leonardo –ITALY
Zdenko PUHJIN – CROATIA
Benjamin HEINE - IVORY COAST
ELraya Ombaddi Abu Baker - SUDAN
Mosa Ejawi – JORDAN
Abdulah Y. Alhamzy – YEMEN
Etidal Abed Aljedaani - Saudi Arabia
Bhekani Emerald Thwala - South Africa
Ural Caricature Club (CRANBERRY) - Russia

Best regards
RAED KHALIL
Director of 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

See more prize-winning cartoons at:
http://www.syriacartoon.com/news/2008/news-090500804.html

Results 8th International Mediterranean - Turkey

Results 8th International Mediterranean Cartoon Contest, Alanya - Turkey
Organised in Turkey by Alanya Tourism and Promotion Foundation, the 8th International Mediterranean Cartoon Contest with theme "Tourism in Mediterranean" concluded.
441 entries from 49 countries were examined on May 3, 2008, by the jury comprised of Kamil Masaraci, Kamil Deniz Som, M. Nuvit Ozkan, Cihan Demirci, Ibrahim Tapa and Mahmut Karatoprak (See top above). The selected cartoons are to be exhibited for a week in Alanya from May 31, the prize-giving date. The organising foundation will publish the exhibited cartoons in a catalog.
The list of prize-winning artists is as follows:
1st Prize: MOHAMMAD ALI KHALAJI (IRAN) (See above)
2nd Prize: ALI BULCA (ANKARA/TURKEY)
3rd Prize: DRAGUTIN DADO KOVACEVIC (CROATIA)
Special Pizes:
LUC VERNIMMEN (BELGIUM)
RAUL DE LA NUEZ (U.S.A.)
SEMERENKO VLADIMIR (RUSSIA)
FUMINKO HOKOYAMA (JAPAN)
ATHOS CAREGHI (ITALY)
MEHMET SELCUK (DENIZLI/TURKEY).
2008-05-05
Source:
http://www.alanya.com.tr/tr/Haberler/w,457-8.-Uluslararasi-Karikatur-Yarismasi-Sonuclandi.html

Winners of Editorial Cartoon Competition - Canada

Russian Cartoonist wins International Editorial Cartoonists Award
The winners of the International Editorial Cartoon competition for 2008 are:

First Prize - Ivan Anchukov – Russian Federation

Second Prize - Gilbert Daroy – Philippines

Third Prize - Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei – Iran

Certificates of Excellence
Paulo Volmar Matos Vilanova – Brazil
Aristides Hernandez (Ares) – Cuba
Jugoslav Vlahovic - Serbia
Bobo Pernecky – Slovakia
Jitet Koestana – Indonesia
Vladimir Kazanevsky – Ukraine
Ross Thomson – England
Mahmood Salami – Iran
Run Tang Li – China
Ahmet Aykanat - Turkey (See below)

See all prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.ccwpf-cclpm.ca/english/cartoon-winners

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look-2008”

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look-2008” (Russia)
Rules
1. Participants take part in the competition with an original cartoon or very qualitative copy. Cartoons must be signed by the cartoonist in case that they are submitted as computer print outs. Photographs, photocopies etc., will not be accepted.
2. Previously awarded works will not be accepted.
3. Size of cartoons should not exceed 21 x 29.7 cm (A4 paper size). Works should be submitted unframed and unmounted.
4. The Organizers will not be responsible for damage that may occur during postage and handling.
5. Competition is open to professional and amateur cartoonists from all over the world.
6. Subject is “Ecology. Pure city. Clear ideas”.
7. Participants are expected to send the filled in participation form, a short curriculum vitae and a photograph together with their cartoons. Otherwise applications will not be considered.
8. The Jury of Festival creates from the experts competent in the field of a cartoon, the fine arts. The Jury will meet in July 2008 for the selection and award of the works. The jury's decision is final and cannot be contested.
9. Award-winning cartoons will not be returned to the artists.
10. Prizes:

The first place - 1800$ and «The Gold pencil»,

The second place - 1100$ and «The Silver pencil»,

The third place - 500$ and «The Bronze pencil».
11. Cartoons which do not win awards will be returned to the artists upon written request.
12. Participants may also leave their cartoons the Cartoon Museum, to be established by the Organizers.
13. All selected works will be displayed in an exhibition and one free copy of the exhibition catalogue will be sent to the artists whose works have been selected.
14. The cartoons will be displayed at http://look.goodideas.su/ (http://vzglyad.goodideas.su/) and may be used for promotional purposes printed or electronically or otherwise and permit third parties to reproduce them for promotional purposes of the exhibition and used without any monetary or otherwise compensation. Participants are considered to have accepted all the conditions stated herein.
15. By filling and signing the entry form, the artist undoubtedly agrees with the above-mentioned terms of the contest.
16. The award ceremony will take place in Belgorod (Russia) September, 16. The exhibition on results of Cartoon Contest will pass at Belgorod children's art school.
17. Deadline for entries is July 11, 2008.
18. Address: P.O. Box 25, Eugene Kramskoy, Festival «Clear Look», Belgorod, 308015 Russia

Festival Vice-president: Eugene Kramskoy

E-mail: chetko@bel.ru

http://look.goodideas.su/
http://2cartoonists.blogspot.com/
http://1toonru.livejournal.com/

Augusto Cid wins 10th PortoCartoon World Festival

Augusto Cid

Muhittin Koroglu

Dalcio Machado

Taeyong Kang

Augusto Cid wins X PortoCartoon

The well-known Portuguese cartoonist Augusto Cid was the winner of the 10th PortoCartoon World Festival, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, and with the Official Sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

The second prize was to Muhittin Koroglu, from Turkey and the third prize was awarded to two cartoonists ex aequo: Dalcio Machado, from Brazil and Taeyong Kang, from South Korea.

"The Olympic flame", was the title of the winner cartoon, and calls the attention to the multiple violations of Human Rights of China on Tibet.

Augusto Cid collaborates weekly with the newspaper SOL and had an anthological exhibition on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in 2004. Called "The Knight of the cartoon" the exhibition presented about 120 of his best cartoons made throughout his career.

The "Human Rights" was the theme chosen for this PortoCartoon edition and assumes a special relevance at this time with the Olympic flame's problems on its journey to China.

As the quality of the works received was of a very high level, the PortoCartoon international jury had also given 15 honourable mentions: Seyran Caferli, Azerbaijan; Luc Vernimmen, Belgium; Cau Gomez, Brazil; Eduardo Ferreira Grosso, Brazil; Harold Ortiz Sandoval, Colombia; Myung-Lae Nam, South Korea; Alberto Morales Ajubel, Spain; António Mongiello “Napo”, France; Dave Connaughton, England; Angel Boligan, Mexico; Pawel Kuczynski, Poland; António Santos, Portugal; Ali Sur, Turkey; Musa Gumus, Turkey and Sevket Yalaz, Turkey.

The winners will receive a monetary prize and bottles of special Port Wine (special reserve) together with the trophy and diploma.

This is the first time over the ten years of this festival we registered such a geographical enlargement of the participation, 70 countries. This means a growth of 20% when comparing it with 2007. Moreover, both in terms of cartoonists and works the participation of previous years was exceed. The organization of PortoCartoon received almost 2000 drawings of more than 500 artists. Brazil is the country with more participants - more than 50 cartoonists, with 200 works. In second place was Portugal, followed by Iran.

The international jury of X PortoCartoon was presided by Marlene Pohle, president of FECO and had the following members: Xaquin Marin, director of the Museo de Humor de Fene (Spain), Julio Dolbeth, from the Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto, Lucília José Justino, President of Amnesty International of Portugal; Naoki Seshimo, Japanese architect; Nuno Costa Santos, representative of Produções Fictícias; Raquel Almeida, representing the Ministry of Culture, and Luís Humberto Marcos, director of PortoCartoon and Museum.

The PortoCartoon is considered by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists Organisations) as one of the three most important festivals of humour in the entire world. FECO is the most important international cartoonists’ organization and represents more than 2000 artists of 30 countries.

The PortoCartoon has been annually organized since 1998, and this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, always with themes of great impact worldwide.

Several hundreds of thousands of visitors have seen the ninth editions of PortoCartoon which took place on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, and in the several cities where exhibited, including countries as Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Mexico.

The winners of the X PortoCartoon will receive their trophies and prizes during the opening ceremony of the exhibition to be held on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in June, during the S. João of Porto festivities.

The other winning cartoons can been seen in the http://www.cartoonvirtualmuseum.org/i_noticias_f_i.htm

4th International Festival "Valle de Aburra" - Colombia

4TH INTERNATIONAL CARTOON FESTIVAL AND GRAPHICAL HUMOR “VALLE DE ABURRÁ”
The conditions:
1) The contest is open to all the graphical caricaturists and humorists of the world.
2) The deadline for entries is September 15th 2008
3) The themes of the competition are: A) WOMEN POWER . B) FREE.
4) Each participant can present in the competition a maximum of three cartoons for theme.
5) The cartoons presented must be in original or digital images signed by the artist, we don't accept photography.
6) You can participate with cartoons in white or black or in colour.
7) The size of cartoons will not exceed 30 X 40 cms. Maximum.
8) You can also participate with cartoons that have alredy been published or rewarded previously.
9) Each participants will pay to send the cartoon.
10) Each cartoons will have in the back the name, last name, address and e-mail of the participant.
11) Participants are requested to send, together with their cartoons, a short curriculum vitae and photography.
12) There will be selection judges.
13) The sent cartoons won't be returned (except the ones received as borrowed), and they will take parted in the cartoons and comic Colombian museum. Each cartoon and its author will have a carpet and a place in this collection.
14) The organization has all rights reserved to exhibit the cartoons that attempt to individual or collective rights.
15) The cartoons selected of 1º and 2º event will be published in a catalogue (by infrastructure problems the catalogue of the first event could not be printed).
16) The selected works will publish in our Web page and a book of next appearance, that will contain works of the made events.
The Prizes
1° Grand Prix: US$ 1.000 (that they support the Universidad de Medellín and the Commercial Center Los Molinos).
2° Special prizes offered by various institutions.
3° Special mentions.
ADDRESS: The works should be sent to:
4ª Muestra Mundial de Caricatura “Valle de Aburrá” – Colombia
Carrera 55 # 49-51
Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana-Departamento de Bienestar Universitario-
Medellín – Antioquia – Colombia
Telephone 270 77 24 – 5112199, ext. 134 y cel. 314 7771291
Winning version 2005: YURIY KOSOBUKIN – Ukraine
Winning version 2006: CRISTÓBAL REYNOSO “CRIST” – Argentina
Winning version 2007: ARISTIDES HERNANDEZ “ARES” – Cuba
Source: http://www.cartoonblues.com/Contests2008/Contest_2008September_Medellin.html
Spanish version: http://www.cartoonblues.com/Contests/3RD_INT_CARTOON_FESTIVAL_COLOMBIA.doc

7th competition of graphic humour Joke for FOR 2008

Joke for FOR (Fór pro FOR) 2008 Prague - Czech Republic
Organizers - In co-operation with the Czech Cartoonists’ Union and ABF announces the 7th annual open competition of graphic humour
Rules for competitors:
1. Participation conditions
The organisers will announce the competition by publishing the conditions for participation in periodicals and distributing them to selected artists in the Czech Republic and abroad. The competition is open to all who realise the following conditions. By sending in their pictures, each competitor accepts the rules of competition.
2. Content and technical conditions
Theme: “The window – the eye of building”
(The competition is the part of the 18th International Building Trade Fair FOR ARCH 2007)
Number of pictures: maximum of 3
Format: minimum A4 – maximum A3
Signatures: All pictures must be signed by the author on the front side and the author’s name, address and e-mail address must be written on the back side.
Notice:

a) the original piece only
b) the graphical techniques must be signed by an author on the front page and marked by the specification of number of prints and the serial number of an entered exemplar
c) the competition works can not be awarded on the other international competition in the past
3. Valid regulation
- 40 pictures will be chosen for the competition and exhibition; an international jury will select the prize-winning entries.
- Each of the authors of the pictures selected for inclusion in this year’s collection to be displayed at a biennial exhibition will obtain a catalogue.
- The competitors agree that their work could be used for publicity and promotion in materials promoting the competition, or could appear in the media for the purpose of promoting the event or presenting the results and the authors.
- The competitors agree that the sponsors and advertisers of the competition have privilege options to use works selected by them for their own presentations or promotions at the author’s regular fee, and the right to contact selected authors for further co-operation.
- The prize-winning works and the final collection of a maximum of 40 works will become the property of the organisers. Unselected work will be returned to the authors if the envelope with address and stamp is enclosed.
4. Prizes and awards
1st place: FOR-pencil - gold + diploma + 10 000 CZK (370 EUR)
2nd place: FOR-pencil - silver + diploma + 7 000 CZK
3rd place: FOR-pencil - bronze + diploma + 5 000 CZK
4th place: Honourable FOR-pencil + diploma + 3 000 CZK
5th place: Special FOR - pencil + diploma + 1 000 CZK
The Svatopluk Pitra Prize devoted by Irena Pitrova (for Czech authors only)
Honourable mention of GAG editor + 500 CZK (for Czech authors only)
The author of 1st prize-winning work will be invited to attend the awards ceremony and his expenses for the travel and one night in hotel in Prague will be covered (foreign author - from the borders of Czech Republic to Prague and back).
The glass trophy for the winners will be given to the author only, who attends the ceremony on September 16, 2008 in Prague, or the persons entrusted by the author.
For the excused authors, there will be delivered diplomas and money by the post.
5. Important dates
Date of announcement: 25th April, 2008
Deadline for competition: 14th June, 2008
Jury session: 17th June, 2008
Viewing of exhibition in the centre of Prague: 16th September, 2008 – 30th September, 2008
Winning ceremony and the prize giving: 16th September, 2008
7. Jury
Both, organisers and sponsors, will have their own members in jury. The organiser reserves the right to name the jury and its chairman and secretary. The jury will receive remuneration for serving on the jury. The organiser reserves the right to set the criteria for judging the competing works after consultation with the chairman of the jury. The jury will select the best works for the final competition and will select the prize-winning works according Point 4 of this statute.
8. The pictures should be sent to this address:
ABF a.s., ForProFor - (ALEŠ VYJIDÁK); Václavské náměstí 29; 111 21 Praha 1, Česká republika
Information:
e-mail: ivan.hanousek@dreamworx.cz;
e-mail: vyjidak@abf.cz, tel.: +420 222 891 115
WEB: http://cuk.dreamworx.cz/

Results 2nd Corum International Cartoon Contest 2008

The 2nd Corum International Cartoon Contest 2008 (Turkey) with theme “Are we going to burn or freeze?” concludes. According to the announcement made by cartoonist Sonmez Yanardag, Corum representative of the Association of Cartoonists, one of the organisers of the contest with Corum Municipality and Corum Journalists Association; 172 artists from 19 countries sent in 320 cartoons for the competition: http://picasaweb.google.com.tr/syanardag/YanacakMYZDonacakMYZ

WINNERS
First Prize: Askin Ayrancioglu – Turkey
Second Prize: Rumen Dragostinov - Bulgaria
Third Prize: Alaattin Cevikbas - Turkey
Mention 1: Kursat Zaman - Turkey
Mention 2: Muammer Kotbas - Turkey
Mention 3: Oleksiy Kustovskiy - Ukraine
Special Prize of Corum Representative Branch of the Association of Cartoonists: George Mitides – Southern Cyprus
The date of prize-giving ceremony and the inauguration of the exhibition to be announced soon.

Results International exhibition on theme Stamps

Results of the International cartoon exhibition on theme POSTAGE STAMPS, Belgrade 2008

Jury:

Stefan Popa Popa’s, cartoonist (Romania),

Tadashi Nagai, ambassador of Japan in Belgrade and philatelist,

Jugoslav Vlahovic, cartoonist and graphic artist (Serbia),

Doru Bosiok, cartoonist and graphic artist (Serbia),

Dragan Poposki, director of Postal Museum in Belgrade (Serbia),

Slavoljub Ignjatovic, journalist and philatelist (Serbia).

WINNERS

I prize (500 euro) – Jiri Sliva (Czech republic)

II prize (300 euro) – Goran Markovic (Serbia)

Diplomas:

Jacek Frackiewicz (Poland)

Mohammad Amin Aghaei (Iran)

Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria)

Elman Mirzoyev (Azerbaijan)

Personal stamp and diploma – Vladan Nikolic (Serbia)

Mail art prize – Nickolai Krachtchin (Russia)

Mail art prize – Peter Niuwendijk (Holland)

Mail art diploma – Boris Petrushansky & Olesya Kuklina (Russia)

Jury FECO Serbia awarded with special prize (200 euro) Slobodan Adjanski (Serbia).

Opening of the exhibition and prize-wining ceremony will be on May, 22 at Postal Museum, Majke Jevrosime 13, Belgrade.
JUGOMARKA, Belgrade, Serbia (jvlahovic@ptt.yu)
Union of cartoonists of Serbia FECO (jugoslav@nin.co.yu)

Biennial of Caricature GOLDEN SMILE Belgrade 2008

The 6th International Biennial of Caricature GOLDEN SMILE Belgrade 2008
Regulations
*The sixth International Biennial of Caricature THE GOLDEN SMILE – BELGRADE 2008, organised by the ULUPUDS (Association of Fine and Applied Artists and Designers of Serbia) and FECO Serbia, will be held at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, December, 2008.
*The competition is open to artists from all over the world.
*Theme of the exhibition: TRADITION AND PROGRESS
*Each author is to submit original works (all fine or graphic arts techniques are accepted). Author may enter unlimited number of works. The maximum size of one caricature is 42 X 29.7 cm (format A3). Due to scanning recquirement format A4 (29.7 X 21 cm) image size, is recommended. Digital prints signed by the author, and good quality photo-copies will also be accepted.
*The selection of works will be made by the Council of the Exhibition.
*An international Jury appointed by the Exhibition Council will decide on Awards.
*Awards:
The Golden Medal and 600 EUR
The Silver Medal and 400 EUR
The Bronze Medal and 300 EUR
The Award of the Weekly Magazine NIN for the best graphic print.
*The works, marked on the back with the sticker (or the photocopy of the sticker) filled, should arrive by NOVEMBER 1st, 2008 to the following address:
ULUPUDS (»The Golden Smile«)
Terazije 26/II
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
To avoid custom problems, please write DOCUMENT, NO VALUE on the envelope
*The exhibits shall not be returned to the artists and will remain in the ULUPUDS collection – CaricatureDivision/FECO, Serbia,except on special demand. The exhibition will be shown in other towns in Serbia.
*The organiser will publish an illustrated catalogue ­of the exhibition and all exhibitors will obtain it free of charge. Each exhibitor shall authorise the organiser to ­reproduce his works without reimbursement, for advertising purposes.
*These regulations are subject to interpretation of the Council of the Exhibition. President of the Exhibition Council is Jugoslav Vlahovic, graphic artist and cartoonist.
*For all the further information please contact ULUPUDS, Tel/fax: +381 11 268 57 80
e-mail: ulupuds@beotel.yu or jugoslav@nin.co.yu
ULUPUDS web presentation: http://www.ulupuds.org.yu/

Regulations, Stickers for Caricatures, and Registration form at: http://www.ulupuds.org.yu/Aktuelnosti.htm