I am Charlie Cartoon Festival January 30th 2015, Norway

I am Charlie
Religious tolerance, respect
and freedom of expression
Cartoon Festival
January 30th 2015

Universal Tolerance Organization with the vision of global peace, democracy, peaceful coexistence, respect of human rights and sustainable development through tolerance, organizes this festival to support the freedom of expression and respect to human rights.
UTO ask you to send one or two of your art for the festival because of the attack in Paris. In January 7, 2015, at approximately 11:30 CET(10:30 UTC), two masked gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles, a shotgun, and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher stormed the headquarters of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. They shot and killed 12 people, including Charlie Hebdo staff and two French National police officers, and wounded 11 others.
This festival will hold I am Charlie Cartoon Festival out of respect for human rights and support for journalists and cartoonist around the world.
Subject: Religious tolerance, respect and freedom of expression.
Deadline: 30 January 2015
Artists may start sending their work from January 10th to: festival@universaltolerance.org
Terms and conditions:
The competition is open to everybody around the world.
The art work must be original and not published or exhibited previously.
The work should be designed and colored digitally.
The artist should sign the original digital artwork, and number the printed version with pencil before mailing it to our postal address.
The artwork should be filed as JPG with a resolution of 300 dpi.
Name, personal details and contact information (phone, email, country of origin, mailing address) of the artist should be written behind the artwork.
Artists should enclose a personal photo and a short biography of themselves.
The artwork should demonstrate of the subjects mentioned above.
International juries will select the artwork for competition.
A collection of artworks will be published to present an artistic view of the principles of tolerance.
Universal Tolerance Organization will have the right to publish the artworks in books, and websites of U.T.O etc.
Awards:
First prize: 600 Euros.
Second prize: 400 Euros.
Third prize: 300 Euros.
Website: www.universaltolerance.org
I am Charle Cartoon Festival on the FACEBOOK CLICK HERE.

6.01.2015 R.I.P. Stefan DESPODOV, Bulgaria

http://www.bestcartoons.net/Cartoonists/Stefan-DESPODOV-Bulgaria/
http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr/content.php?db=menu02_03&key=Stefan+Despodov
Source: bestcartoons.

Gunmen attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris; 12 killed including 4 cartoonists

It is reported the four cartoonists were Charb, Cabu, Wolinski and Tignous.

Carlos Latuff (Middle East Monitor).

XXIII International Satire and Humor Contest 2015, Studio d’Arte Andromeda, Trento, Italy

XXIII International Satire and Humor Contest 2015, Studio d’Arte Andromeda, Trento, Italy
RULES
THEME: THE BOOK IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE BOOK
ENROLMENT CONDITIONS
Any Italian and foreign artists can enrol. The age limit is 16 years. Each participant is allowed to submit max 3 original works, not rewarded or reported in other competitions.
ARTISTIC LANGUAGES
Illustration/satire: size A4/3
Cartoon: max 2 pages size A4/3
Animations video: maximum running time of 1 minute
RULES CONCERNING THE DISPATCH OF WORKS
The works must be sent in digital format to info@studioandromeda.net
Images should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and saved in jpg or tiff format at the highest quality.
Important: the images can be max 5MB, for images larger than 5MB use www.wetransfer.com
DEADLINE
Entries must be received no later than March 28, 2015
SELECTION AF WORK
The international jury will select the works that will be exhibited in the exhibition and published in the online catalog and sent in pdf format to the selected authors.
The jury meeting is scheduled for April 11, 12, 2015.
The winners and reported undertake to send the works in the original, if digitally printed in high quality and signed by 15 October 2015, on pain of forfeiture of the prize. The three winning authors will be hosted at the expense of study Art Andromeda on 14 and 15 November in Trento.
PRIZE WINNINGS CEREMONY AND EXHIBITION OF WORK
The award ceremony will be Saturday, November 14, 2015 at: 18,00, the place will be announced later.
The exhibition will be on display from November 14 to December 5, 2015.
A preview of the exhibition will be exposed to Trentino Book Festival Caldonazzo (TN) on days 12,13 ,14 June 2015. The selected works will remain on permanent display on the site www.studioandromeda.net.
RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES
The authors, taking part in the competition, give the non-exclusive right to publish the work in any medium for promotional purposes by Studio d’Arte Andromeda not have any claim as copyright.
PRIZES
1° prize € 1000,00
2° prize € 700,00
3° prize € 500,00
Cartoon special prize € 300,00
Animations video special prize € 300,00
10 mentions with small gift.
Download rules + Entry Form (PDF Format) here.

Rules of the 13th FreeCartoonsWeb International Cartoonet Festival 2014, China

1,Sections/Themes:
1) Cartoon:
(A) Gourmet; (B) 12 Chinese Zodiac; (C) 12 Constellations; (D) Free Theme
2) Caricature:
(A) Famous President; (B) Sports Star; (C) Entertainment Star; (D) Business Star
2,Deadline:
February 18, 2015 (Chinese New Year's eve)
3,Entries:
1) Size: Min:A4(210mmx297mm), Max:A3(297mmx420mm).
2) Quantity: Unlimited.
3) Please send digital original drawings to this contest. Black & white or colored, any style, any technique will be accepted.
4) Participants are requested to send together with their cartoons, an entry-form with digital signature, a photograph or caricature. The form can be downloaded at FreeCartoonsWeb.
5) Titles or entry-form must be filled out in understandable English or Chinese.
6) All cartoonists can participate in festival through your own E-mail by submitting your cartoons to: freecartoons@126.com
Format:JPEG Size:max.4M per cartoon Resolution ratio:200dpi-300dpi
7) The excellent cartoons will be published in Chinese newspaper and magazine. Some cartoons will be exhibited in China. All cartoons will not be returned.
4,Prize:
1) Cartoon:
Grand Prize (1 awards): Certificate+Catalogue+Gifts;
Gold Prize (2 awards): Certificate+Catalogue;
Silver Prize (4 awards): Certificate+Catalogue;
Bronze Prize (8 awards): Certificate+Catalogue.
2) Caricature:
Grand Prize (1 awards): Certificate+Catalogue+Gifts;
Gold Prize (2 awards): Certificate+Catalogue;
Silver Prize (4 awards): Certificate+Catalogue;
Bronze Prize (8 awards): Certificate+Catalogue.
5,Contact:
URL: http://www.fcwfcw.com , http://www.fcw.cn
E-mail: freecartoons@126.com (Only for Festival)
Source: http://www.fcwfcw.com/Diary.asp?ID=696.

New deadline for Pannonpower Cartoon Contest 2014, Hungary

Pannonpower Cartoon Contest
NEW DEADLINE: 18. 01. 2015
only on the internet, by e-mail!
Theme: Drawings in green – innovative energy production by biomass
Information here.

20th International Cartoon Exhibition Zagreb 2015, Croatia

20. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION ZAGREB 2015

A. PARTICIPATION
The organizer of the 20th International cartoon exhibition ZAGREB 2015 is the Croatian Cartoonist Association.
The festival is opened for everyone regardless of nationality, age, sex, or profession.
B. THEME PAINTING ( FROM CAVES TO COMPUTERS )
C. ENTRIES
Conditions of entry:
1. Original works and digital artworks will be accepted. Digital artwork is to be numbered in pencil on the front and pencil signed. Copies cannot be admitted.
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 16th of April 2015.
E. ADDRESS
CROATIAN CARTOONIST ASSOCIATION
(HRVATSKO DRUŠTVO KARIKATURISTA)
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 2th of June 2015.
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 in the end of the exhibition cycle (in the second half of the year 2016).
The organizer reserves the right to reproduce the works sent to the festival, Zagreb 2015, 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 here .
WEB: http://www.hdk.hr/ .

New Year 2015 : Dragutin Kovačević

The end of the Arab Cartoon House website / Nedal Hashem

Like all beautiful ideas, there is always an end, and this is the end of the Arab Cartoon House website.
The site will halt due to the lack of usefulness, and poor attention of professional cartoonists. In a time when the beginning was modest in terms of services provided, there was broad interest from professional cartoonists, which formed our identity as a site specialized in professional caricature. However, with the spread of social networking sites that have become a strong competitor to various types of sites, we have become in front of a strong octopus which we cannot resist, especially with the great desire for sites such as Facebook to monopolize the cyberspace.
The site will halt because we are not an organization that has the necessary potential to implement the tasks of archiving and posting news specialized in the Arabic caricature art, although we have made efforts of this kind with individual potential and without any financial support.
The site will halt because of the level of bathos in cartoons published in some Arabic newspapers, which do not deserve the price of its ink, so how it could deserve my effort in saving and archiving it.
The site will halt because of the level of trauma caused by the institutions which supposed to be a cultural lever, but it turned out to be speculation centers which value the culture only at the level of interest generated by some stock.
The site will halt because I left my professional specialty in engineering, thinking that it is more important to be a cartoonist, then I was spending long time in following up site affairs more than the time I was spending in drawing, thinking that it is more important to perform this task that it is performed by none in the Arab world.
The site will halt because I have other ideas hoping that I will be able to achieve them before they become obsolete.
This is a message of apology to whom it may concern, including a number of friends and great cartoonists whom I could not know without this site.
I hope that the Arab Cartoon House website has contributed to the development of this art during the past nine years.
Author: Nedal Hashem
October 27, 2014.
Source: arabcartoon.

New Year 2015 : Giannis Geroulias

New Year 2015 : Ivan Hanousek

Umoristi A Marostica becomes biennial

After 46 years’ edition of the competition, the group graphic organizer of the event, has decided that it is time to re-think the most current key in the mode of the event.
Since the birth of the competition to date the social reality, Italian and international, has changed dramatically. Was 1969 when a group of university students, in the wake of the movements of the ’68 proposed a manifestation of complaint is not with protest signs, but with humorous cartoons. They chose the graphics in the belief that it was an international language suited to overcome political barriers, language and culture. We added the humor that for them meant not to laugh and just, but most do reflect, often throwing a critical message on existence. Over time the quality of the works, the honest intent, the seriousness and the quality of the jury, the freedom of choice of themes, the independence from political strategies and/or commercial as well as the passion of the group, have meant that the competition has imposed among the most important in Italy and abroad and is still very popular with artists from around the world.
But the rapid transformation that are affecting the cultural field is changing rapidly forms of production, distribution and consumption of culture in each country, and the forms of cultural exchanges that can take place between countries. Digital culture is causing revolution of all target reference points for human growth social and mental.
This rapid spread of social communication is transforming the quality of virtual information and creates new challenges for art in general, but especially for graphics. In recent years, the group graph has made a considerable effort in this area with results undoubtedly significant, but not optimal yet.
Then to reason with serenity and attention has decided to bring the competition every two years.
However, we will keep the focus on the graphics in the year proposing a “pause”, an exhibition of graphics of great artists in the industry, but we would have so more “time” to re-think our competition in a modern both in structure and in the mode of participation and proposition to the public that has always faithfully followed.
See you in the competition in 2016!
Gruppo Grafico Marosticense
Source: http://www.umoristiamarostica.it/?p=53.

New Year 2015 : Milenko Kosanovic