Theme in Euro-Fruitcartoonale Sint-Truiden 2009 is "Fruit: Culinary"

Deadline: February 11, 2009
Download the Rules 8th Euro-Fruitcartooncontest Sint-Truiden 2009 in PDF

First International Tourism Cartoon Competition, Eskisehir - Turkey

First International Tourism Cartoon Competition, Eskisehir - Turkey
Theme of the competition: Tourism
The First International Tourism Cartoon Competition is held with the cooperation of Anadolu University Research Center for Caricature Art, Association of Tourism Writers and Journalists and Anatolia: Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi (Anatolia: A Journal of Tourism Research). Tourism is one of the fastest developing sectors in Turkey and all over the World. Individuals’ various experiences during leisure travels are evaluated within the concept of tourism. Cartoonists' comprehension of tourism related issues such as accommodation, transportation, travel agencies, food and beverage, entertainment, recreation, sightseeing, museums, environment, tourist-resident relationships and also of the developmental process and of experiences of tourism, constitute the aim of this competition.
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 colourful or black and white. On the other hand, performers are required to put signatures on their drawings.
* Drawings must be minimum A4 (21x27,7cm) and maximum A3 (29.7x42.0cm) size and potential deformation during the sending process should be avoided. Participants are responsible for any deformation caused by the posting procedure.
* Participants must write their names, surnames and adressess behind their drawings. Also, they must complete the Participant Information Form placed below in the Windows Word format and post 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: Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research and in other printed materials of this organization such as books, catalogs, brochures, postcards and posters. All rights for any other publishing except these belong to the owner of drawing.
* Some selected part of the cartoons submitted for selection 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 and will be archieved in The Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art.
* All the cartoonists participated in the competition are implied to agree on the conditions and regulations of the competition.
* Award ceremony and the cartoon exhibition will be organized during the The 5th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure which will be held in Cappadocia Dedeman Hotel between 25-30 May 2010. Award-winner cartoonists will be hosted by the scientific committee during the conference.
* Submission deadline is 31 December 2009. The organization committee is not responsible for any delays caused by posting process.
Awards:
The Grand Award: All inclusive holiday in a five star hotel in Turkey (7 days, 2 persons),
The Second Award: All inclusive holiday in a five star hotel in Turkey (6 days, 2 persons),
The Third Award: All inclusive holiday in a five star hotel in Turkey (5 days, 2 persons),
Five Mentions.
Postal address: Prof. Atila ÖZER, Anadolu University, Eğitim Karikatürleri Müzesi, Akcami Mah., Malhatun Sokak, No: 6 Odunpazarı, 26030 Eskişehir TURKEY

Visual Intifada: exhibition of Palestine cartoonist Naji Al Ali in Ravenna, Italy

Visual Intifada: exhibition of Palestine cartoonist Naji Al Ali http://visualintifada.blogspot.com/
From 16th January 2009 to 14th February 2009
Open: Monday to Sunday, 10 am to 1 pm \ 4 pm to 8 pm. Closed Thursday afternoon.
Opening Friday 16th at 6 pm. The debate on Palestine with Tahar Lamri, Alessandro Taddei, Elettra Stamboulis will follow
Galleria Mirada – Libreria Interno 4 Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna
National Council of Palestine - In: Tom, Dick, Harry, Huey, Dewey Louie. Out: Democracy
Naji Al Ali is the creator of Handala, the young Palestine boy who always turns the shoulder to the reader.
Naji Al Ali (Palestine 1937 – London 1987) did more than 40.000 illustrations published in several Arab countries. He was killed under mysterious circumstances in summer 1987, in London where he was in exile. The exhibition shows some works translated into Italian by Tahar Lamri, Algerian writer who lives in Ravenna.
You can buy the reproductions of his works. The money will be donated to the hospitals run by Mustafa Barghouti - “The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees” http://www.pmrs.ps/last/index.php - in Cisgiordania and Gaza Strip. People who wish use the exhibition for the same purpose can contact Associazione Mirada.
You can download Naji Al Ali’s works here. http://www.inguine.net/visualintifada/vignette.zip
Visual Intifada is a project born after the invasion of Israel and its army into Palestinian territory and denounces the widespread and devastating silence of the last weeks. http://visualintifada.blogspot.com/
This report by Gianluca Costantini.

Meeting of Cartoon Museum Directors 2009, Eskisehir - Turkey

It is planned to hold an international meeting between 30 September - 2 October 2009 to enable communication and interaction among the directors of cartoon museums in the world by Anadolu University Research Center for Cartoon Art, Eskisehir, Turkey. For details: http://www.krk.anadolu.edu.tr/karw/muze/

First International Cartoon Competition of Ethiopia with free theme

ETHIOPIA CARTOON
First International Cartoon Competition of Ethiopia
Subject: Free
Number of works: max 3 - 200 dpi
E-mail to send work: ethiopiacartoons@yahoo.com
Rewards:
First prize: 3000 $ and statue
Second prize: 2000 $ and statue
Third prize: 1000 $ and statue
Five of best works will get 500 $ and statue.
Deadline: January 30th
The book will surely publish and will be sent to all of contestants.
The website of this competition will come soon.
Source

14th International Cartoon Exhibition ZAGREB 2009 - Croatia

THE CROATIAN CARTOONIST ASSOCIATION 14th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION ZAGREB 2009
A. PARTICIPATION
The organizer of the 14th International festival of cartoon ZAGREB 2009 is the Croatian Cartoonist Association. The festival is opened for everyone regardless of nationality, age, sex, or profession.
B. THEME: BASIC HUMAN NEEDS (food, drink, clothing, sex ...)
C. ENTRIES
Conditions of entry:
1. Original works and digital artwork will be accepted. Digital artwork is to be numbered in pencil on the front and pencil signed.
2. Entries can be either black and white or coloured.
3. There should be the name, the surname and the adress on the reverse side of cartoons.
4. The cartoons must not have been previously awarded on festivals.
5. Maximum 3 entries will be submitted.
6. Size of entries is A4 or A3 format.
D. DEADLINE: Entry deadline is the 25th of April 2009.
E. ADDRESS: CROATIAN CARTOONIST ASSOCIATION, SAVSKA CESTA 100, 10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA
F. PRIZES AND AWARDS:
First Prize: 1.000 EUR
Second Prize: 500 EUR
Third Prize: 300 EUR
Five Special mentions
G. EXHIBITION: The exhibition will take place in Gallery Klovićevi dvori in Zagreb on the 16th of June 2009.
H. OTHER CONDITIONS:
Authors of works that qualify to the exhibition are given a presentation copy of the exhibition cataloque.
Only on explicit request will remaining (original) works be returned to the owners at the expense of the organizers.
The organizer reserves the right to reproduce the works sent to the festival, Zagreb 2009, as the advertising material without being obliged to pay a fee to an author whose work may be used.
The prize-winning works become property of the organizer.
Entry form on http://www.hdk.hr/
E-mail: hrvdrukar@gmail.com

Results XIII Salon of Humor "Santa Clara 2008" - Cuba

Meeting in the city of Santa Clara (Cuba), on the twentieth day of December 2008, the jury made up of Isel Chacon Diaz, director of the Museum of Humor, Aristides Hernandez Guerrero (Ares), cartoonist, and chaired by Thomas Rodriguez Zayas (Tomy), cartoonist, after analyzing the works, decided to grant the following awards:
International participants
- Third Prize: Jurij Kosobukin, Ukraine
- Second Prize: Omar Figueroa Turcios, Colombia
- First Prize: the author signed TC (Tawan Chuntra?)
National participants
Humor general
- Second Prize: Enrique Lacoste Prince
- First Prize: Martirena Alfredo Hernandez
Erotic Humor
- Mention: Pedro Mendez Suarez
- Third Prize: Douglas Nelson Perez (Chispa)
- Second Prize: Miguel Angel Mora Mendoza
- First Prize: Adalberto Linares Diaz
Report: Melaito Suplemento Humor
Source: NANDO
Translation support: Google Language Tools

This e-card for the New Year 2009 by Laco Torma is from Ivan Hanousek

Laco Torma

Invitation to the Cartoonists - 11th PortoCartoon - The CRISIS

Dear Friend,
The most global word is now CRISIS.
Every citizen of the world feel it on their own way.
There are crises for all tastes and temperament: humanitarian, economic, political, psychological, of food, sports and so on. And so on.
Only there is no crisis in crisis.
It is known that the evolution is largely increasing, in periods of disruption, conflict and crisis. For too bad to say about it the crisis sharpen the human talent and art.
That is why we hope the crisis will stimulate the sharpen pencils of the cartoonists from all around the world, for the PortoCartoon 2009.
Against the CRISIS war, weapons of creativity and humour!
You will find the general rules of the 11th PortoCartoon on the PortoCartoon website: http://www.cartoonvirtualmuseum.org/eventos/pc/xi/xipc_reg.pdf
We wish you a Happy New Year, in spite of the crisis!
Warmest regards
Luís Humberto Marcos
Director
PortoCartoon-World Festival
The Portuguese Printing Museum
Estrada Nacional 108, nº 206
4300- 316 Porto Portugal
Tel: 351+22 530 49 66
Fax: 351+22 530 10 71
portocartoon@museudaimprensa.pt
http://www.cartoonvirtualmuseum.org/

More e-cards for 2009 from Hanusic, Kar, Elpen, Massimino, and Trenholm

Hule Hanusic

İsmail Kar

Levent Elpen

Leonardo Massimino

To ring in the new year & send glad, happy tidings of only the very best to those i know, my annual maze of floating celeb heads, all done during the course of '08....
(Clockwise: Actor Paul Newman, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Actor Alec Baldwin, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Actress Keira Knightley, Countrywide's CEO Angelo Mozilo...)
Zach Trenholm / Caricaturist
San Francisco, CA. USA
415.753.6020
http://www.zachtrenholm.com/

Beyond silence: let’s re-launch Kufia - Gianluca Costantini

In these tragic hours, while witnessing the atrocities of Israeli military occupation in Palestinian lands, the brave resistance of Palestinian women and men, and the courage of Israeli and international pacifist activists, we feel we must do something quickly and effectively in order to stop the ongoing massacre. Actions are due if we wish to preserve any spark of hope from destruction. We cannot wait while Sharon’s criminal arrogance, supported by part of the Israeli Labour party, tries to extinguish all critical understanding in Israel. There will be no permanent and just solution to the current conflict if they do not recognise the Palestinian people’s historical right to have their own independent and sovereign state. What has been cynically offered to Palestinians so far is a humiliating collection of territories.
We have to denounce U.S. military support of Israel, and the terrible risks this policy entails for our future. As a justification for its attitude toward the Palestinian conflict, the U.S. government is boasting about the need to fight terrorism, and showing once more its absolute indifference to international laws. We firmly believe that the language of violence, used by Bush and Sharon as a political strategy, will only enhance hatred, desperation, and terrorism. Our need to act is not only based on the wish to stop manslaughter in the Middle East, and save the lives of Palestinian and Israeli women and men, but is also an effort to save our own life and future.
Twenty years ago we created “Kufia, Italian pencils for Palestine” with the help of many artists and associations supporting the Intifada. An exhibition of the artists’ original drawings toured more than 70 towns in Italy, Israel and Palestine, including Jerusalem. Prints of the portfolio were sold to raise funds to support Palestinians’ rights over their land and their right to return to their land. Today, we wish to re-launch the Kufia campaign and possibly to widen it. Together with il manifesto, l’Alfabeto Urbano, Mano magazine, and other political organisations and press companies, we are now working on a new edition of the portfolio and exhibition. It will host major Italian comics artists and, hopefully, Israeli and Palestinian artists (as in the past edition). Although we know that humanitarian support and alternative information - offered by important associations such as “Emergency”, “Un ponte per”, “Action for Peace”, “Peace Brigades Interna-tional”, “Indymedia” and others - is absolutely fundamen-tal to many areas in the world, we still think that more can be done in the field of communication, culture, and art for the sake of Palestine. We want to bring together different experiences, all stemming from Palestine’s emergency call, and develop new theoretical and practical strategies. In the following days more information on Kufia will be found in the newspaper il manifesto, including the different steps of our project and other coming publications.
http://www.inguine.net/kufia
Contributions: Mark Merkeke, Xavier Torcelli, Vauro, David Vecchiato, Oscar Zarate, Andrea Accardi, Giorgios Botsos, Andrea Bruno, Giorgio Carpinteri, Onofrio Catacchio, Blaise Dehon, Elfo, Marco Ficarra, Giacon, Gabriella Giandelli, Nabil Hanani, Jean Lamore, Jean-Christophe Long, Sliman Mansour, Mark Markeke, Marina Comandini, Leila Marzocchi, Josè Munoz, Rula Halawani, Daniele Brolli, Gianluca Costantini, Marta, Squaz, Cinzia Ghigliano, Arnon, Oreste Zevola, Daniele Scandola, David Reeb, Filippo Scozzari, Giacon, Guido Crepax, Erika Pittis, Lorenzo Mattotti, Magnus, Sliman Mansour, Taleb Dweik, Taysser Barakat, Milo Manara, Vera Tamari, Paper Resistance, Ale Staffa, Rocco Lombardi, Marco Corona, Mimmo Manes, Giacomo Nanni, Gipi, Guy Vandervoorde, Paco Desiato, Matteo Bergamelli, Stefano Centonze, Tayseer Barakat, Vincenzo Apicella, Maurizio Ribichini, Alessio Spataro, Serge Ricco, Miki Kratsman, Alessandro Pessoli, Bertrand Panier, Giuseppe Palumbo, Michelangelo Setola, Mark Merkeke, Franco Matticchio, Andrea Pazienza, David B., Igort, Marina Comandini, Vanna Vinci, Sara Colaone, Davide Catania, Renato Calligaro, Maicol & Mirko, Elena Rapa, Miguel Angel Martini, Raul, Enea Riboldi, Davide Reviati, Aleksandar Zograf, Joe Sacco, Matteo Bergamelli.

8th International Carluka Cartoon Contest 2009: Gogol's World & Free Theme

8th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST CARLUKA 2009 - UKRAINE
GOGOL'S WORLD
Gogol and Poltava. The genius writer and the land that gave birth to him – all this is engraved not only on the souls of Ukrainians, but also on the souls of all admirers of Nikolai Gogol's writings. It's very symbolic that the great satirist was born on the 1st of April. Therefore it is impossible not to mention the author of such unfading works as Vechera na Khutore bliz Dikan'ki (Evenings on Homestead near Dikanka), Revizor (The Inspector General), Myortvye Dushi (Dead Souls) and many other genius writings, which became classic during Gogol's life and brought him international fame. Among them is a famous Nos (Nose). That's why the official prize in the nomination Gogol's World is "The Gold Nose". This nomination has become the main theme of the International Cartoon Contest CARLUKA, which is traditionally opened in our city exactly on the 1st of April. By the way, The Gold Nose is a quite "natural product", a sculpture designed by famous Russian cartoonists Mikhail Zlatkovskiy and Sergey Tyunin and made by a well-known Ukrainian caricaturist Oleg Dergachov.
The second theme of the Cartoon Contest CARLUKA-2009 is a free theme.
Best works will be published in Ukrainian and foreign papers and magazines and placed on the sites of the professional cartoonists from different countries.
I. THEMES:
1. Gogol's World in Cartoons (characters, ethnics, mysticism, black humour, etc.)
2. Free Theme
II. CONDITIONS
1. Each participant is requested to submit the original cartoons created in any material, as well as computer graphics with the author's signature. The cartoons may be in colour or in black and white, may have the formats 297x420 (A3) or 210x297 (A4). The number of works – no more than 5 (five). The deadline for the entries is 8 March 2009.
2. The participants are requested to give their personal information (name, surname, home address, contact phone number, e-mail) on the back of each cartoon.
3. Works sent by mail should be protected from damage during the forwarding.
4. The cartoons will remain with the organizers of the contest and may be returned to the authors upon their request.
5. The organizers hold the right to publish and use the cartoons sent to the contest without their authors' permission with obligatory reference to the authorship.
6. The cartoons' evaluation is done by secret voting according to three criteria: cartoon's conformity to the theme of the contest, style, humour.
III. PRIZES
Nomination "Gogol's World in Cartoons" Grand prize – "The Gold Nose", 3000 USD
Nomination "Free Theme" - 1st place - 1000 USD, 2nd place - 700 USD, 3rd place - 300 USD.
WORKS ARE TO BE SENT TO THE ADDRESS:
ASTREYA-REKLAMA (Cartoon Contest) Chapaeva Str 30, Poltava, 36039, Ukraine
Tel./fax: +38 0532 561134 E-mail: carluka@gala.net WEB: http://www.carluka.com/en/contest/

Rahim and Elpen depict the new year through footprints of the previous one

Rahim Baggal Asgari

Levent Elpen