9th “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition 2014

Notice on the Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

I. Competition Name:
The Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition
II. Host
Organizing Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival
China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association
China International Culture Association
China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts
III. Undertaker:
Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Centre
IV. Co-undertaker:
Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
Sina (Zhejiang)
Humorist Comics
V. Sponsor:
Zhejiang Zhongnan Group Animation Co., Ltd.
VI. Participants and Scope
Any youth or child under 18 (born after March 20, 1996) has the right to participate in the competition. Individuals or groups are welcomed.
VII. Themes (choose one)
1. Story of Horse
2. Dream
3. “Return to” the Silk Road
4. Getting hotter…
VIII. Rules
1. Participants are divided into Junior Group (middle school students) and Children Group (primary school students and preschool children).
2. Participating works shall be original, instead of modification, reproduction or copy from others. They shall boast entire copyright. In case of violation, the participation qualification of such works will be cancelled.
3. Each participant is allowed to contribute 1 piece of works.
4. The competition will not charge any participation fees.
IX. Requirements
1. Original works with healthy and positive content should be sent. The patterns of manifestation are not limited. Paper of single, four and multiple cartoon strips should not be smaller than 20×30cm or bigger than 55×40cm. No framing is needed. Cartoon books should be no more than 16 pages with a size bigger than 15×20cm and smaller than 30×40cm, and should be binded together in book form. Personalized bookbinding and layout are encouraged.
2. Each work will be stuck on the bottom right corner a form including nationality, name, sex, date of birth and group to attend (Middle School Group or Primary School Group), name of school, address, post code, telephone number, instructor, title and brief introduction to works, etc. Visit the official website of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival http://www.cicaf.com and the website of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center http://www.hzqsn.com to download the forms of Registration Table of the Participating Works and Statistics Table of Group Participation.
X. Awards:
1. Top Grade Prize will be awarded to 10 contestants (RMB 1,000 each).
2. Gold Prize, Silver Prize, Bronze Prize and Merit Prize will be awarded for 1%, 1.5%,
2.5% and 5% participants of total contribution works respectively.
3. Excellent Organizer Award and Excellent Tutor Prize are also provided.
4. Excellent Instructive Award is given to the teachers of winners of Top Grade Prize and Gold Prize as well as the teachers of the group winning the Origination Award.
5. Excellent works winning prizes will be included in the Collection. Each award winner will be awarded with certificate and one Collection.
6. Winners of Top Grade Prize and Gold Prize will award a set of Wisdom and Imagination published in the first half year of 2014.
XI. Works Exhibition
Excellent works will be displayed in professional art exhibitions or on the web, and names of all prize winners will be announced on the websites (websites of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival and Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center). Also, some of them will be published in magazines such as Master of Humor and Wisdom and Imagination.
XII. Deadline
March 20th, 2014 (according to the date of stamp)
XIII. Agreement
No works will be returned back. The authors agree to transfer the publishing right, exhibition right and property right of the works to the Host. All the participants are deemed to agree with the rules above.
XIV. Works Shall be Mailed to
Tianyan Cup Cartoon Competition Office, Art Department of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center (No. 22, Zhaoqingsili Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou), Zhejiang Province, China, Post Code: 310007
Addressee: Wang Zhan, Sun Jingnan
Telephone: 0086-0571-85821035 (except for Monday and Tuesday)
Fax: 0086-0571-85821012
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2nd International Humor Exhibition of Manaus 2014 with theme: Football World Cup

2nd International Humor Exhibition of Manaus 2014, Brazil
REGULATION

1 - DATES
The 2nd International Humor Exhibition of Manaus 2014, conducted by Jack Cartoon Productions / CT Tech Amazon Fight City Hall / Manaus / Amazonas State Government shall comply with the following schedule - Registration: until May 7. Art Selection: 22 and 23 May. Opening and Awards: June 2. Closing: August 3.
2 - PARTICIPATION
Professional and amateur artists, Brazilians and foreigners can apply unpublished artworks that were not awarded until the closing date for entries.
The works - all categories - can be sent by MAIL or ELECTRONIC MAIL (applications over the Internet, in the format and 300 DPI, JPGE, attached images at once).
The graphical technique is free. Digital copies signed by author and being indicated that it is print number 01 and sculptures, with humorous content will also be accepted. Maximum measures allowed: paper - 42 x 30 centimeters (A3) (16,54 x 11,81 inches), sculptures - 42 centimeters or 16,54 inches (height) x 30 centimeters or 11,81 inches (depth) x 30 centimeters or 11,81 inches (width).
Each artist may enter a maximum of 03 works per category: Cartoon (( graphic humor themed to FOOTBALL WORLD CUP), Charge – GRAPHIC HUMOR ( with graphic humor journalistic themes to FOOTBALL ), Caricature ( graphic humor which expresses the physical traits and / or character personality known in SOCCER WORLD CUP), Comic Strips/Comic Stories ( graphic sequentially . Caution: for comics stories will be accepted a maximum of 02 pages ) and THEME SOCCER WORLD CUP. Along the arts enrolled the artist must attach the completed registration form legibly and signed. It is also requested resume and photo to the database of Amazon Fight Training Center Tech.
ADDRESS
2º Salão Internacional de Humor de Manaus /Jack Cartoon Produções – Rua. 24 de Maio, 590 – Caixa Postal - CEP 69010.-080 – Manaus AM BRASIL
E-MAIL ADRESSES
Cartoon Category: premiocartum@gmail.com
Charge Category: premiocharge@gmail.com
Caricature Category: premiocaricatura@gmail.com
Comic Strips/Stories Category: premiotira@gmail.com
3 - AWARDS
The Awards are a total of R$ 30,000.00 (thirty thousand reais), of divided as follows:
a) Four 1st place prizes in the amount of R$ 5,000.00 (five thousand reais) each, divided among the categories.
b) One award of R$ 10,000.00 (ten thousand reais) called GRAND PRIZE INTERNATIONAL HUMOR OF MANAUS chosen among the five winners of each category.
c) Beside the money prize, the awarded artists will be receiving trophies. Other awards and honors may be imposed at the discretion of the Organizing Committee.
There will be a Selection Jury and an Award Jury composed by qualified people in the area. If the Award Jury finds any type of fraud or plagiarism in one or more registered works, the Jury may cancel the award. The result of the award may be contested until a week after the opening of the Exhibition, with reasonable evidence of any wrongdoing without acknowledgement of the committee.
4 – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The simple application requires the artist to accept these regulations. The selected artists automatically transfer the authorial rights of his artworks for reproductions and publications in any media, without restriction, aiming promotion of the event. The returning of the artworks after the closing of the exhibition must be formally requested early in the registration form. Otherwise the artworks will ultimately belong to the collection of the CT Tech Amazon Fight City Hall, which will exercise the right of property, as it finds interesting.
The organization of the 2nd International Humor Exhibition of Manaus 2014 is not responsible for possible damages that may happen when the arts are sent or returned.
The authors transfer automatically Authorial Rights of his artworks when awarded acquisitively (including mentions), in accordance with the Law n° 9610, February 19st, 1988 (Authorial Rights Law), therefore, universal and definitely in all use modalities and gratuitous, the rights of the author, guaranteed by the mentioned law; referring to the awarded artworks in the 2nd International Humor Exhibition of Manaus 2014 and now integrant part of the CT Tech Amazon Fight City Hall .
IMPORTANT: The work submitted must be accompanied by the registration form, duly completed and signed by the author. Registration Form on source.

International Contest for the Young up to 18 Year Old, Krusevac - Serbia

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Source: http://www.kck.org.rs/.

18th edition of the International Fax for Peace, Fax for Tolerance 2013-14, Italy

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"Rights" is the theme in 46th International Contest "Umoristi A Marostica" 2014, Italy

46th International Contest "Umoristi A Marostica" 2014, Italy
REGULATIONS

1. Theme of the competition and participation rules
The contest is open to all cartoonists, illustrators and graphic artists from all over the world. It is possible to participate also out of the competition. This request excludes the author from the award of the prizes.
The theme of the contest is: RIGHTS, inviolable and universal
Authors can participate with a maximum of 3 works (Cartoons or Strips), inherent to the theme proposed in relation to man, his existence and the society where he lives, seen in a humorous viewpoint. In order to be understood worldwide and beyond every linguistic barrier, the works must be without dialogue or texts.
Works must be inedited (that is, neither published before nor used to participate in other competitions). The organization can decide to exclude from the award of the prizes those works that are found to have been already edited.
2. Shipping of the works and deadlines
Works can be sent by email to: 2014@umoristiamarostica.it
Otherwise, they can be sent through the following services:
WeTransfer (http://www.wetransfer.com)
DropBox (http://www.dropbox.com)
Google Drive (http://drive.google.com)
Together with the application form −containing all author’s data− that can be downloaded from the website www.umoristiamarostica.it.
The works, in black/white or color made with any technique, must be in GIF, JPG, PNG or PDF, 150 dpi resolution, saved in high quality, weight max. 3 MB. Larger files will not be accepted.
The deadline for works reception is February 21, 2014
The acceptance of the works, the selection, and the assigning of the prizes are completely up to the Jury nominated by the Artistic Direction and "Gruppo Grafico Marosticense". The Jury's decisions are unquestionable and uncontestable.
3. The Award of the Prices and the Delivery of the Original Works
The Jury will award the "International Grand Prix Scacchiera", the Special prize "Sandro Carlesso", the Special prize "Marco Sartore" and 10 Special prizes "Umoristi A Marostica". Other special prizes or honorary mentions may be awarded.
The results of the Jury will be given directly to all participating artists by email and published on the web site www.umoristiamarostica.it.
The authors selected by the jury must send the original works for the exhibition.
If the work is realized exclusively with a digital technique, the author will have to send a dated, numbered and signed copy of the work.
Works must be sent (postage paid by the sender and without frames or glass), by April 15, 2014 to the following address: UMORISTI A MAROSTICA | PIAZZA CASTELLO 12 - 36063 MAROSTICA (VI) - ITALIA
4. Opening Ceremony, Awarding and Acceptance of the Regulation
The opening ceremony and the prize distribution will take place on May, 10, 2014 at Castello Inferiore of Marostica. The exhibition will be open until June 22, 2014.
All the authors selected will receive a free copy of catalogue. Non-selected participants will have the possibility to demand the catalogue compiling the form on the site www.umoristiamarostica.it.
The works selected for the exhibition and for the catalogue will not be returned and will be included in the collection of "Umoristi A Marostica Museum". Nonselected paper works for the exhibition and the catalogue will be given back on request before and not after June 22, 2014. Shipping cost is debited to the author.
The "Gruppo Grafico Marosticense" reserves the right to authorize the reproduction of the works and the diffusion of them through various communication means citing the author with the words "Taken from Umoristi A Marostica", without any payment. The "Gruppo Grafico Marosticense" is not responsible for transport damages.
The participation in the contest implies the complete acceptance of all the conditions and rules from the author.
Jury of Umoristi A Marostica 2014
SILVER, cartoonist | FERRUCCIO GIROMINI, journalist | ALESSANDRO TICH, journalist | MARILENA NARDI, cartoonist | FABIO MAGNASCIUTTI, cartoonist | MASSOUD SHOJAI TABATABAI, Director of Biennial Tehran (Iran) | Municipality of Marostica | GIÓX & MAURIZIO MINOGGIO, cartoonists, Art Directors of "Umoristi A Marostica" | Gruppo Grafico Marosticense
Timetable of Umoristi A Marostica 2014
Theme: RIGHTS | Participation deadline: February, 21 2014 | Deadline for the reception of the selected works: April, 15 2014 | Jury: from March, 3 to March, 10 2014 | Opening ceremony and awarding: May, 10 2014 | Exhibition: May, 10 – June, 22 2014.
Participation Coupon on the WEB: http://www.umoristiamarostica.it/.

"The Eye of the Fish" by Anatoliy Stankulov, Exhibition and a Charity Sale

THE STATE INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE, MFA
Kindly invites You to
THE EYE OF THE FISH
BY ANATOLIY STANKULOV
EXHIBITION AND A CHARITY SALE
The profit will be used to help the children refugees from Syria
12.12.2013, Thursday at 18.00 h
The Mission Gallery, State Institute for Culture
2, Al.Nobel str / entrance from Al.Zhenov str.
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The International Cartoon Contest Haifa 2014, Israel

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20th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of Beer: Golden Keg 2014

THE BEER GALLERY in Prešov and ŠARIŠ GALLERY in Prešov, announce the 20th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of BEER: GOLDEN KEG 2014, Slovakia
On Tuesday, 1st April 2014, an exhibition of the best
competing works, a festive announcement of the results and the handing of prizes to the most successful authors of the 20th competition in accordance with the Jury´s decision will take place as follows:
GRAND PRIZE (Grand Prix) Golden Keg and 500 €
1st Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 200 €
2nd Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 150 €
3rd Prize Small Golden KEG and 100 €
The Competition Jury reserves the right not to grant any of the prizes or to grant other special prizes.
The organisers will accept for the competition all works that will be delivered at the address of the Šarišská gallery in Prešov by 24th February 2014.
The organisers of the competition reserve the right to publish selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition, while each competitor will receive a competition catalogue.
Competition rules:
1. Each author can send at maximum five original works, including graphic techniques.
2. The competition is open to anybody and everybody, and it is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The formats of the works should not exceed the A4 dimensions.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the reverse and bear the author´s full address.
5. The rewarded works will become property of the BEER GALLERY in Prešov.
6. Send your works at the address:
ŠARIŠSKÁ GALÉRIA
(p. Fedor VICO)
ul. Hlavná 51
080 01 Prešov
Slovakia
Please clearly mark the envelope with the word „PIVO“.
e-mail: fedorvico@gmail.com.
Complete Rules in PDF.

12th International Cartoon Contest Karpik 2014, Niemodlin - Poland

XIIth INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST “KARPIK 2014” NIEMODLIN - POLAND
Competition rules
THE DRAWINGS MUST BE SENT IN ORYGINAL VERSIONS AND A CD COPY IN GOOD RESOLUTION MUST BE ATTACHED.
MAX.2 WORKS.
THE FORMATS OF THE WORKS SHOULD NOT EXCEED THE A-4.
EACH WORK SHOULD BE SIGNED ON THE REVERSE AND BEAR THE AUTHOR’S FULL ADDRESS.
THEME: “FISH, FISHERMEN, FISHING, ANGLERS”.
THE FOLLOWING PRIZES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED:
 Grand Prix 2500 PLN
Three equal of 1000 PLN.
THE WORKS MUST ARRIVE BY 30 SEPTEMBER 2014!
THE ORGANISER MAY AWARD ADDITIONAL PRIZES.
AFTER THE EXPOSITION, ILLUSTRATIONS BECOME THE PROPERTY OF ORGANIZER AND MAY BE USED FOR PROMOTION PURPOSES END EXHIBITION.
THE WINNERS AS WELL AS CARTOONISTS QUALIFIELD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE POST-COMPETITION EXHIBITION SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH A FREE COPY OF A CATALOGUE PUBLISHED BY ORGANIZERS.
SEND YOUR WORK AT THE ADDRESS:

OŚRODEK KULTURY
(KARPIK 2014)
UL. MIKOŁAJA REJA 1
49-100 NIEMODLIN
WOJ. OPOLSKIE
POLAND

Source: http://www.spak.art.pl/?p=2090.

Results Humor a Gallarate 2013 with theme "Devil", Italy

The winners of Humor a Gallarate 2013, Italy
Theme: Devil
Grand Prix Marco Biassoni: Sergio Tessarolo (Italy)
First prize graphics section: Andrei Popov (Russia)
Special Jury Prize graphics section: Giovanni Curi (Italy)
Mentions graphics section: Margherita Allegri (Italy), Paolo Dalponte (Italy),
Elena Ospina (Colombia), Hicabi Demirci (Turkey) (See below), Mihai Ignat (Romania).
First prize section satire: Doru Axinte (Romania) (See top)
Special Jury Prize section satire: Alessandro Gatto (Italy)
Mentions section satire: Marco D'Agostino (Italy), Marco Marilungo (Italy),
Pavel Constantin (Romania), Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraine), Julio Angel Carrion Cueva (Peru)
First prize caricature section: Ivailo Tsvetkov (Bulgaria)
Special Jury Prize caricature section: Emanuele Benetti (Italy)
Mentions section caricature: Mariagrazia Quaranta (Italy), Mario Magnatti (Italy),
Fernando Resendiz Mendoza (Mexic), Juan Camilo Lopera Arroyave (Colombia), Raul Iglesias Blanco (Spain).
See all prize-winning cartoons here.

Results International Cartoon Contest URZICENI 2013, Romania

Results of International Cartoon Contest URZICENI 2013, Romania
Theme 1. RICH MAN - POOR MAN
Theme 2. FREE
The WINNERS
1. FIRST PRIZE (ex-aequo): PETRISAN, Romania (500 $)
and Bozidar STEFANOVIC, Bosnia Herzegovina (500 $)
2. SECOND PRIZE: Chaiporth PANICHRUTIWONG, Thailand (500 $)
3. THIRD PRIZE: Omer CAM, Turkey (400 $)
Special PRIZES:
1. Pavel BOTEZATU, Romania
2. Hule HANUSIC, Austria
3. Constantin SUNNERBERG, Belgium
4. Li JINGSHAN, China
5. Vladimir KAZANEVSKY, Ukraine
6. Nikola OTAS, Serbia
7. Darko DRLIJEVIC, Montenegro
8. Constantin PAVEL, Romania
9. Slobodan BUTIR, Croatia
10. Vaso KRCMAR, Serbia
Theme 3: PORTRAIT / Romanian sportsman:
1. Special prize: Ivailo TSVETKOV, Bulgaria
2. Special prize: Aquil RASTEGARI, Iran
3. Special prize: Iulian LALU, Romania
4. Special prize: Kresimir KVESTER, Croatia.
(Cash prizes from PORTRAIT section were CANCELED, for low participation.)
JURY Members:
Julian PENA-PAI, Romania - President
Jugoslav VLAHOVIC, Serbia - member
Cristi VECERDEA-CRIV, Romania - member
Liviu STANILA, Romania - member
Nicu PETRACHE, Romania - member/organisator.
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Pantomim on Paper: Cartoon Exhibition by Kambiz Derambakhsh in Tehran, Iran

International exhibition "Apaguemos el Maltrato" is on from 25 November in Spain

The International exhibition themed "Apaguemos el Maltrato" (Extinguish Violence Against Women) is opened in 25th November 2013 in Madrid where is the capital of Spain with the participation of 24 prestigious artists from 21 countries and aims to raise awareness of abuse against women. In the afternoon, it was presented in Alcorcón, the first of the 12 towns that will hold the exhibition by the hand of the Women’s Institute of Madrid.

The exhibition after Madrid Royal Mail House will be placed at headquarters at the Women Institute of Madrid for a year. During the same period, it will be exhibited in Alcobendas, Alcorcón, Aranjuez, Boadilla del Monte, Getafe, Las Rozas, Móstoles, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Soto del Real, Torrejón, Tres Cantos and Valdemoro.
The two cartoons by Menekşe ÇAM take place in the exhibition to represent Turkey.
The all participating artists;
Angel Boligán (Mexico), Pablo Blasberg (Argentina), Menekse Cam (Turkey), Darío Castillejos (Mexico), Doaa Eladl (Egypt), Alex Falco (Cuba), Ares (Cuba), Riber Hansson (Sweden), Adán Iglesias (Cuba), Doddy Iswahyudi (Indonesia), Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine), Pawel Kuczynski (Poland), Yu Liang (China), Marc Lynch (Australia), Marilena Nardi (Italy), Miel (Singapore), Enio Navarro (Spain), Victor Ndula (Kenya), Vilma Vargas (Ecuador), Elena Ospina (Colombia), Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria), Andrei Popov (Russia), Kianoush Ramezani (Iran), Ann Telnaes (USA).
The cartoons in the exhibition were collected in an album will be sent to the participating artists.
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