The 8th Tehran Cartoon Biennial - Iran

The 8th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial organizing committee invites cartoonists from all over the world to participate in this contest.

Regulation:

1) The contest is open to all cartoonists.

2) The contest will be in four categories:

A- Cartoon (Two Sections) Theme: 1. Money 2. Free.

B- Comic strip, theme: Bad luck.

C- Caricature, theme: Free. Special Prize theme: Luciano Pavarotti.

3) THE PRIZES:

Grand Prize: 8000$, Trophy and Honorable Mention (The main cartoon theme)

First Prize: 2000$, Trophy and Honorable Mention

Second Prize: 1500$, Trophy and Honorable Mention

Third Prize: 1000$, Trophy and Honorable Mention

The first to Third Prize will be awarded separately for each section of the contest.

The jury panel of the 8th Tehran Cartoon Biennial will also award 10 selected artists with Honorable Mentions.

Special Prizes will be offered by various Sponsors, Establishments, Associations, Newspapers and Agencies.

4) A maximum of 3 works in each section can be submitted by the participating cartoonists.

5) The dimensions of works should not exceed the minimum 20x30 cm and maximum 30x40 cm.

6) Comic strip must be presented in one page and without any words.

7) Only original artworks are accepted, without any kind of frame, accompanied by the entry form and author's short biography and photo.

8) Quality prints of works achieved by digital tools will be accepted as originals as long as they are hand signed by the author, accompanied by the digital file of the artwork in Tiff format with 300 Dpi resolution on a CD. No photocopies or photographs will be accepted.

9) Name, surname, address, phone number and e-mail of the participant should be written on the back of each cartoon

10) The choice of technique is free, color or B&W and etc.

11) The deadline: October 22, 2007 Depending on the posting date.

12) The participating cartoons will not be returned.

13) All cartoonists whom their cartoons are published in the catalogue will receive a free copy.

14) The organizers will do their best to protect all submitted cartoons from any probable damage, but takes no responsibility of the damages caused by post or bad transport.

15) The organizers hold all the rights to publish the cartoons submitted to the contest and use them in any from.

16) All participants are considered to accept all the conditions.

17) All works must be sending to the following address:

Iranian house of cartoon, No.60, Golnabi (Ketabi) St., Shariati Ave, Tehran, I.R. Iran

18) For further information,

Visit our website or email us: http://www.irancartoon.com/ E-mail: info@irancartoon.com

Tel: (+98 21) 22868600-22846928 Fax: (+98 21) 22867080

Nature & Man Cartoon Contest - Turkey

THE PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST NATURE & MAN

SUBJECT : Nature and Man

The subject of the year 2007 : Global Climate Change and Our World.

The Association of Cartoonists, TEMA Foundation and Cartoon Publishing organize this contest aiming to direct people for focusing more on this matter by describing through cartoons that mankind will sooner or later face these dangers and by focusing on their probable results and also aiming to create an attitude and behavioral change in the society in order to slow down this process.

The contest is open for all the amateur and professional cartoonists.

The cartoons may be published or awarded.

Technique is free. Can be color or black and white.

The size is A4 (21 x 29.7 cm).

Contestant cartoons can be sent only through internet.

Awards: By the end of each month, the best 3 cartoons of that month will be selected and 20 saplings will be planted in Tekirdag Memorial forest on their behalf. An introductory sign will be erected on the plantation region.

The works that are sent to the contest will be exhibited through internet.

By the end of the year, the awarded works and works determined by the selection committee will be collected in a CD and will be sent to the authors of the works as free of charge.

The cartoons of the contest, whether awarded or not, may be exhibited in the introductory announcements of the contest and they can be published in books, magazines, posters, postcards.

Copyrights will not be paid to the authors of the works for these publications. In case they are used for other purposes or by third parties, then permission will be obtained from the author of the work.

Those who send their works to the contest, will also indicate whether they can be used or not, on t-shirts to be produced by TEMA Foundation's Economic Management in order to obtain revenue.

The utilization rights of the works are for Turkey.

The artists participating in the contest will be deemed to accept all the participation conditions.

This contest is organized by the Association of Cartoonists, TEMA Foundation and Cartoon Publishing. Since environmental disasters are continuous, our contest will also continue without interruption.

Top above: August 2007 Prizewinner: Dragana Jovanovic (Serbia)

Right above: July 2007 First Prize: Rumen Dragostinov (Bulgaria)

Right below: August 2007 Prizewinner: Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan)

Exhibition: The exhibition of the contestant cartoons will be realized at the gallery of the Association of Cartoonists.

Award-giving ceremony: will be announced later.

Sending address by e-mail: dogalcevre@gmail.com and naturamailto:naturalenv@gmail.com

Jury evaluation: Election will be held every month.

General Authority of the Organization: Muhittin Koroglu

Selection Committee:

Representative of the Association of Cartoonists

Representative of TEMA Foundation

Representative of Cartoon Publishing.

WEB: http://www.muhittinkoroglu.com/yduyuru.asp

Winning cartoons at: http://www.muhittinkoroglu.com/sergiler2.asp

http://www.karikaturculerdernegi.org/detay.asp?id=6650

http://www.karikaturculerdernegi.org/detay.asp?id=6696

Shots from June 2007 exhibition at: http://www.karikaturculerdernegi.org/detay.asp?id=6587

WEB: http://www.karikaturculerdernegi.org/detay.asp?id=6294

1st International Cheval Blanc - France

The First International Cartoon Contest of Cheval Blanc - FRANCE 2007 - FIREMEN

Dear Cartoonist:
The Festival of Cheval Blanc,the site Infos-Matin and the town of Cheval Blanc invite you to participate in The First International Cartoon Contest of Cheval Blanc (FRANCE 2007)

RULES
Theme: Firemen
Entries:
1 - Each cartoonist can submit a max of (3) original works (black & white or colored). Works made by computer, or photocopies will be accepted;
2 - Size: strictly A4 (21X 29.7)
3 - Deadline: November 1st, 2007
4 - On the back of each work the following information should appear: First name - surname - address - tel & fax - e-mail.
5 - The works will be displayed at Infos-Matin website: http://www.infos-matin.fr/ or may be used for promotional purposes; cards, posters, newspapers, catalogs, books, etc. Participants are considered to have accepted all the conditions and are aware that their submitted works may be reprinted and used without permission.
6 - All the cartoonists whose works will be selected for the exhibition will receive a catalogue
7 - The jury will not reward the cartoons submitted to other festivals. The prize winners will be informed by mail. And the results will be declared in November 2007
8 - Frequency: Annual
9 - PRIZES:
Golden prize…………….150 Euros
Silver prize…………….. 100 Euros
Bronze prize…………….. 50 Euros
And 20 selected works will be awarded (Album).
10 - By submitting the works, the author accepts the rules and regulations of the Contest and the decisions of the Jury.

Contact: infosdumatin@lavache.com

Infos-Matin http://www.infos-matin.fr/

All works should be sent to:
Y Delpech , 17 voie ancienne poste 30400 Villeneuve / Avignon - France

CineCartoon International - Turkey

CineCartoon International Cartoon Competition is organised in Turkey by International Izmir Short Film Festival and 35 Izmir Film Festival. It is planned to keep this competition annually as a tradition within the festival. Competition is open to all professional and amateur cartoon artists from all countries. The exhibit to be held this year has a theme on "cinema and woman".
General Info
1.Original works should be sent to the competition. If the cartoons are sent as a computer output, it should have original signature (wet signature) on it. Photographs, photocopies, etc. won't be accepted.
2.The size of the cartoons to be sent can not exceed A3 paper (29,7 x 42 cm).
3.CinCartoon organisation is not responsible of any damages or losses during transport or on mail.
4.Exhibition is open to professional and amateur artists.
5.To apply, the online entry form should be filled in. A short biography and a photograph of the artist should be sent along with the original work. Otherwise the application won't be accepted.
6.Cartoons should be sent to the festival as scanned at least 300 dpi, jpg format. The maximum file size is 10MB. The address to be sent is info@cinecartoon.net.
7.Selection Jury; Cem Koç (The Association of Cartoonists, Izmir Correspondant), Kayhan Kirmizigul (IISFF President), Mehmet Aslan, Murteza Albayrak, Eray Özbek.
Selection Jury will gather in November 2007.
8.The works accepted to the exhibition won't be sent back.
9. The applicant accepts that he gives the permission to use his works for news and promotion purposes by filling in the online application form.
10.The works that are not accepted for the exhibit can be sent back by the written demand of the artist.
11.All cartoons used for the exhibit will be gathered in an album. This album will be sent to all artist whose works are used.
12.Exhibition will go on during the festival. The three works selected by the festival & exhibiton viewers will be awarded. Also they will be rewarded by sponsor companies.
13.CineCartoon International Cartoon Exhibition Award Ceremony will be held in Izmir in November 2007.
14.Deadline for entries is 20 October 2007.
WEB: http://www.cinecartoon.net/en/

2nd Braila - Romania

BRAILA COUNTY COUNCIL, THE COUNTY CENTER FOR PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE BRAILA

INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2nd edition 2007
REGULATION
Contest: open to all cartoonists
Theme:
A) Braila - a multi-ethnic province (in Braila’s region cohabit beside Romanians the following ethnic communities: Bulgarians, Greeks, Italians, Jews, Lipovenians, Roms, Tatars and Turks).
B) Free.
Entries: max. 5.
The works in original must be accompanied by the author's biography.
Size: A4 (210 x 297 mm) - A3 (297 x 420 mm).
Technique: free.
Deadline: November 20th, 2007
Prizes: Great Prize – 1000 €; First Prize – 800 €; Second Prize – 500 €; Third Prize – 300 €; 3 Special Prizes – 200 € (each).
Members of jury: Tudor Octavian – art critic, Mihai Stanescu – cartoonist, Leonte Nastase – cartoonist, Costel Patrascan - cartoonist.
Exhibition: December 8th, 2007
Catalogue: each selected artist will receive a copy.
Remark: the works will not be returned, they will remain the property of The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila.
The works should be sent to:
The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila, Piata Traian 2, 810153 Braila, Romania.
Contact details:
Tel / Fax: +40 239 614 710

E-mail creatie@braila.net

costel_patrascan@yahoo.co.uk

No news from FAX FOR PEACE

To: InterCartoons@yahoogroups.com
From: "tawan chuntra" tchuntra@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [InterCartoons] information
--- tawan chuntra tchuntra@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Sir:
My name is TAWAN CHUNTRA, a cartoonist from THAILAND.
In January 2007 I send my cartoon for cartoon contest FAX FOR PEACE, http://www.faxforpeace.it by e-mail.
I win an award but now I do not get any information or an award prize from that contest. I wrote and sent the post to the organization, but it's not any respond. I know many cartoon contests have the manner like FAX FOR PEACE cartoon contest but I hope it's the last time that happening to cartoonist.
Please post my information to the cartoonist e-mail of FAX FOR PEACE: istsuperiore@faxforpeace.it
Best regards
TAWAN CHUNTRA

Zlatkovsky exhibit in Turkey

Zlatkovsky exhibition in Turkey
Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art is displaying Mihail M. Zlatkovsky's works in Turkey. There are 60 cartoons in the exhibition about problems in human life by the world-famous Russian artist. They will be on exhibition between Sep 26 - Oct 22, 2007 at: Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Karikatürleri Müzesi, Akcami Mh. Malhatun Sk. No: 6 Odunpazarı ESKİŞEHİR / TURKEY.
The opening ceremony is at 17.30 on Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007.
MIKHAIL M. ZLATKOVSKY
Was born in August, 21, 1944 at village of St.Christopher, Tambov region in a family of The Red Army officers. The family legend says that Russian branch of Zlatkovskies is from a Polish nobility traced back to the end of XII century. After suppression of Kostyushko' rebellion, (end of XVIII century), the great-great-grandfather of the artist was banished to Russia. All men in the family were a sort of priests: before 1831 - Catholics, after - orthodox priests in the Oryol province, European part of Russia.
The grandfather, Kozma Mikolajevitch, did not accept "Sergijanski's heresy" and served secretly as a priest of Russian Cave Church for fourteen years. He was executed on November 26, 1937. The father, Michael Kuzmitch, a colonel, a professor, and a doctor of the military sciences. Being 7 years old, he has officially refused from his father, then from his son at his 72.
Mikhail Zlatkovsky was graduated from Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute (Nuclear Physics Dept.) in 1967 with major in Accelerators of Elementary Particles and worked as the physicist-researcher for 5 years.
In 1971 throw out physics and became a free-lance artist.
Worked as the Chief-Art-Designer in several leading newspapers and magazines. In 1993-98 used to live in the USA, where was Chief-art director of newspapers.
Now the Editorial Cartoonist of the daily all-state newspaper "New Messages ".
Primary activity: political cartoons and caricature, books and magazines illustration, posters.
The basic direction in creativity: "sense art, "problems graphics".
Art-research scientist of the State Institute of Art, where has prepared the thesis for a doctor's degree "The History of the Russian Cartoon", and wrote text books "The Theory and Practice of Images Creation".
During 1999-2001 term took the professor position at The Moscow State University, department of the art journalism.
Secretary of the Russian Journalists Union
During 18 years (till 2001) his collection of the art awards was the biggest all over the world – 211 prizes of the international and national competitions of cartoons, animations, posters, designs, illustrations, among its there are about 50 Grand prizes - "Gold Esope " of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Grand prix of Montreal, Canada, "the Gold Hat " of Knokke-Hiest, Belgium, (twice), the First prize in Istanbul, Turkey, Grand prix in South Korea, "Gold Date" of Bordighery, Italy, "the Gold Egg" of Kroushoutem, Belgium, "the Gold Pencil "of "Satyricon", Poland, and others.
The most important art achievements are:
In 1992, was awarded as "The Best Artist in a Cartooning" after international Peers interrogation,
“Gold pen”- the highest Russian professional artist award. 2003,
“The Best artist of the world”,- Grand prix of the XVI Amadora International cartoons festival, Portugal, 2005.
Personal exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy (twice), in Malta, Poland (twice), Russia, Switzerland, USA.
Founder and the President of the Russian Union of Cartoonists.
President of The Russian division of FECO
WEB: http://www.krk.anadolu.edu.tr/karw/muze/sergiler_exhibitions.htm
Zlatkovsky's personal website: http://www.zlatkovsky.ru/movie.lhtm

7th Barakaldo

Conditions
The city of Barakaldo organizes the "New technologies" seventh international contest of pictorial humour and flash humour.
The cartoonists will send a work of illustrated humour or FLASH in relation with new technologies which have a considerable impact on the day to day life (i.e. internet, biology, space, telecommunications, medicine, etc...). The idea is to help citizens to think about the new grounds for scientific progress.
Non-animated category 1st Prize 2006: Marcin Bondarowicz / Poland (see right above)
1. Applicants:
The competition is open to everyone, especially with no regard of age. Each applicant can present a maximum of three piece of work. The works of the authors who won the Hermes prize the year before will not be taken in consideration.
2. Form and size:
The scenes and characters will have to be originals and of proper creation. The works can be drawn in black and white or in colour. They can be either static or with motion. As far as the motion piece of work is concerned, it must not weight more than one mega. The works will have a length of one page that will not exceed 800 x 600 pixels, with a minimum resolution of 72 pixels per inch.
The authors must not include their name or any other information about themselves on the works. Otherwise, they will be eliminated from the contest.
3. Languages:
Only two languages can be used: spanish and basque. Nonetheless the panel will take into consideration works of pictorial interest without text, proceeding from artists of places where these languages are not used.
Non-animated category 2nd Prize 2006: Pawel Kuczynski / Poland (see right)
4. Presentation:
Applicants will send a e-mail with their names, surnames, address, date of birth, passport number, telephone number. They will send this e-mail with the file of the picture in format JPEG, GIF, GIF animated or FLASH.
5. Place and deadline of the application:
The piece of work with the reference of the artist will be sent exclusively through e-mail, to the following address: hermesbarakalmailto:hermesbarakaldo@barakaldo.org before 2007 October 8th.
Non-animated category 3rd Prize 2006: Rumen Dragostinov / Bulgaria (see right below)
6. Virtual showing: The city contemplates realizing a public diffusion of the works presented and lately selected by the panel.
7. Awards: The "Hermes de Barakaldo" prize is divided in two categories:
Animated category:
1st prize: 1.200 euros
2nd prize: 800 euros
3rd prize: 600 euros
Non-animated category:
1st prize: 1.200 euros
2nd prize: 800 euros
3rd prize: 600 euros
8. Panel: A qualified panel of judges will pick out the best works. Prizes will be handed on the first week of December 2007, in Barakaldo. The city leaves to the panel the possibility to declare no winners, according to quality criteria.
9. Other determination:
Taking part to the competition implies the acceptance of the conditions overhead.
WEB: http://www.barakaldo.org/barakaldo/html/eventos/hermes/index.html
See more prize-winners at: http://www.barakaldo.org/barakaldo/html/eventos/hermes/premios/index.html

Registration extended for the Amazon

1st International Saloon of Humor for the Amazon Forest / Brazil
1. Dates:
Registration extended: until September 26th.
Result of the previous selection: September 2007
Result of the selection by the International jury and the releasing of the final result: October 2007
2. Participation: All cartoonists, professional or not, are allowed to submit original works, since they have not been awarded in other saloons up to the deadline for registrations. Each author may submit up to 3 (three) works developed under any technique, including those ones done by computers. For each work sent, one entry form must be filled up. The entry forms are available at http://www.brazilcartoon.com/
3. Theme: Humor for the Amazon Forest
4. Sending the works: All works, including those ones drawn by hand, must be sent by e-mail, resolution 300 DPIs, color mode RGB, JPG (average quality - 5) or PDF up to the limit of 1,5 MB for each work. Each e-mail must contain only one work and it must come with the respective entry form.
5. Prizes:
5.1 The guiding criteria for selecting and awarding will be:
Creativity.
Originality (The work must not have been published in any kind of media and must not have been awarded in this kind of competition either).
Quality of the drawings.
5.2 Prizes: The prize for the first place will be R$ 10.000,00 (Ten thousand Reais) plus a trophy and a certificate. The second and third places will receive trophies and certificates. The jury may give honorable mentions to the participants.
The awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
Prizes not taken in 90 (ninety) days after the releasing of the results will become worthless.
The value of the prize for international works will be converted to dollars according to its value on June 27th 2007, date of the beginning of the competition. The prize will be paid in March 2008.
6. Copyright: By submitting their works, the authors transfer automatically all copyright of their awarded works to brazilcartoon, which may use the works freely. The awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
7. Disagreement on results: If the jury verifies any kind of fraud or plagiarism on one or more works, it will cancel the prize. The works will be on the website http://www.brazilcartoon.com/ in October 2007 and the results may be contested up to 10 (ten) days after the opening of the saloon, supported by proper proves of any mistake made by the jury. Works sent that are not according to these rules and regulations or those containing any kind of plagiarism will be automatically excluded of the contest.
8. Where to register: To ensure that the works will be sent properly, we suggest that the works be sent through our website, using the system bellow, filling out the entry form and attaching your drawings.
ENTRY FORM
Deadline: September 26, 2007. The date the e-mail was sent will be observed.
9. Further information: Brazilcartoon Organization.
Marcio Leite 55 38-3216-1109 info@brazilcartoon.com

Flexibility at work! - Belgium

Flexibility at work! - congress ACV BI 2007 -
Cartoon theme: Flexibility at work
Deadline: November 7, 2007
Prizes: Prizes will be awarded as follows:
1st prize: 1000 Euro, 2nd prize: 500 Euro, 3rd prize: 250 Euro, Special prize public: 500 Euro.
Number of entries: Unlimited. Free technique. Original cartoons only. Digital: Yes.
Format: Min A4, Max A3
Works returned: Yes, on demand (award – winning cartoons will not be returned).
Exhibition: November 17 & 18, 2007 Ol Fosse d’Outh, Houffalize, Belgium
Free catalogue: No. After the contest on our website http://www.acvbi.be/
Copyright issues: The artworks will only be used in the magazines and leaflets of our organization, ACV Bouw en Industrie, a trade union for the construction and industry.
Address to send the artworks:
ACV BI Cartoon contest “Flexibility at Work” Trierstraat 31, 1040 Brussel BELGIUM
phone: +32 (0)477 54 39 35 (Piet Daneels)
e-mail: bouw_industrie@acv-csc.be website: http://www.acvbi.be/

16th Golden Helmet - Serbia

RULES OF XVI CONCURS

*Golden Helmet* announces a contest titled *WHAT'S INSURED IS FOR SURE*

CATEGORIES:

1. CARTOON

2. WRITTEN FORM - Short story - Poem- Aphorism

3. COMIC

PROPOSITIONS:

1. CARTOON: Original, Minimum A4 (210x297 mm), Maximum A3 (297x420), free technique:

2. WRITTEN FORM: maximum two typed pages or up to 20 aphorisms;

3. COMIC: original, up to eight tables, free technique;

AWARDS:
CARTOON:

1st AWARD: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 1000 € + One-man Exhibition in 2008;

2nd AWARD: 500 €

3rd AWARD: 300 €

WRITTEN FORM:

SHORT STORY: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

POEM: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

APHORISM: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

COMIC: 200 €

PORTRAIT CARICATURE - TOPIC: ALL MY PRESIDENTS
PROPOSITIONS: original, minimum A4, A3

AWARD: 300 €

DEADLINE: Nov. 20, 2007.

Only unpublished works will be taken into consideration. Author's short biography, phone number, and e-mail are obligatory.

Written works to be sent under a code!
Jury decision will be announced on Dec. 1, 2007 and awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1, 2008. The Organizer will bear travel and accommodation cost of awarded authors.

Festival official languages are Serbian and English.

All works remain property of the Festival.

E-mail: goldenhelmet@ptt.yu

Adress: “GOLDEN HELMET” TOPLICINA 2/2, 37000 KRUSEVAC - SERBIA

(Source: http://www.nosorog.rs.sr/diff2.html)

Master Cup International

Master Cup International Cartoon and Illustration Biennial
1. Participation
The contest is open to all artists regardless of nationality, age, sex, etc.
2. Organizer
The organizers are "Master" Illustrators's Federation and Beijing Cartoon Center.
3. Theme
A) Fish –The artwork of demiurge? The spirit of water? Human's pet? or for our food and sport?
B) Butterfly –The world becomes beautiful for you.
4. Entries
4-1) The works whether they have been awarded in other contests previously will be accepted.
4-2) Participators should submit the original works. Any slide, photograph or xerox will not be accepted.
4-3) The maximum five entries should be submitted for each category.
4-4) The maximum size of the works should be 300 x 420 mm (11.81 x 16.54 inch) respectively.
4-5) The works should be accompanied by the author's resume and photo (caricature).
4-6) First name, Last name, Address, Email, Telephone number and selling price should be written on the reverse side of the works.
4-7) Technique and medium of works are unlimited. Any painting, print making will be accepted.
5. Entry Form
Please download the entry form on our web site: http://www.bjcartoon.com.cn/html/news/Entry_form_of_Master_Cup.doc
At the same time, the self-made entry-form is also accepted.
6. Deadline and Exhibition
6-1) The deadline for entry is the 1st of October 2007.
6-2) The Opening of the exhibitions will take place in "Master" Illustrators's House in December, 2007.
7．Delivery
7-1) The entries must be flat protected with hard cardboard, or rolled in a hard case. The folded works will not be accepted.
7-2) Please send entries to the address as follow:
Ms. XIAO GU YUE
CUI PING XI LU 86 HAO (101100)
GE RUI YA JU 206 HAO LOU, 122 SHI
TONG ZHOU QU, BEIJING
BEIJING OF CHINA
8. Judgment
8-1) The president of jury group is Dachuan Xia, well known artist and the secretary-general of China artist's association cartoon committee.
8-2) The jury meeting will be held on 20th October 2007.
8-3) Biennial will announce the result on November 1, 2007 on web site. At the same time organizer will contact the winning artists via postal mail or e-mail.
9. Prizes
9-1) Grand Master prize –Master Cup plus 2000 US Dollars (after tax).
The winner will be invited to Beijing for ceremony and one week holiday, the organizer will cover the traveling tickit and hotel.
9-2) "Master" Illustrators's Federation prize –Master Cup plus statuette.
The winner will be invited to Beijing for ceremony and one week holiday, the organizer will cover the traveling ticket and hotel.
9-3) Master prize –Master Cup plus statuette –10 works.
9-4) Special prize of organizers and sponsors–10 works.
9-5) The honorary prize –30 works.
10. Copyright and selling
10-1) Explicitly participators have whole copyright for their entries, of course organizers may use some works on web site and other media for spreading biennial and artists.
10-2) All the works will be available for selling base on selling price given by authors. Organizers will keep 10% of the selling price, the others will be remitted to authors directly, but the authors should bear the tax according to the Chinese tax regulations.
11. Catalog
The authors whose works have been selected will receive one copy of the catalog made for the contest.
12. Provisions
12-1) The submitted works will not be returned. They will be collected in "Master" Illustrators's house.
12-2) Participation in the contest means the complete acceptance of all the above conditions and agreements with jury's decision.
For Information
Ms. XIAO GU YUE
ZHONG GUO BEIJING SHI TONG ZHOU QU
CUI PING XI LU 86 HAO
GE RUI YA JU 206 HAO LOU 122 SHI (101100)
BEIJING OF CHINA
Telephone: 86-10-82867845-823 Fax: 86-10-82867121
Web site: http://www.bjcartoon.com.cn/ E-mail: mcartist@163.com

2nd Zikison 2007

2nd Competition of a Caricature and a Short Comic Strip 2007
http://www.artija.net/ & The SRZ (SRŽ) – The Satirical Manufactory "Žikišon" (Satirična Radionica Žikišon) are announcing in the categories, the themes:
1. THE PORTRAIT CARICATURE "ŽIKIŠON" WITHOUT WORDS. How do caricaturists imagine "Žikišon" and his life time?
2. THE CARICATURE WITHOUT WORDS – FREE FORM.
For both of categories you can send up to 3 works on A/4 size of paper, up to 200 KB by E-mail, any technique is allowed.
3. THE SHORT ALTERNATIVE COMIC STRIP – FREE FORM. A board needs to content up to 6 squares, A/3 format, up to 400 KB by E-mail, any technique is allowed, up to 3 boards in a work or 3 boards of a single strip.
The competition will be opened and free for all of the professionals and amateurs, for affirmed and unknown authors from 7 to 77 years of age, for all people on this planet but in the case if someone appears from other planet then we will become the first interplanetar competition.
AWARDS: The first award in each of three categories - a presentation on a particular page on the site http://www.artija.net/ and kiks (Caricature and Short Cartoon).
Works can be sent by e-mail zikison@gmail.com & mazospn@gmail.com with author’s short biography and photography. All of received works will not be returned to the senders. The organization of this project keeps the right for using and publishing of received works for the organization’s needs.
The competition will be opened to November 1, 2007.
ZIKISON (1885 - 1950) was a satirist, a caricaturist, an editor, a publisher, and a printer. Between two wars in Serbia he was an actuator, a co–author editor of many newspapers for humor and satire. He has been suffering and imprisoned by Communist Regime in 1949. Soon after that torture and seizing his property, he died in 1950.
WEB: http://www.artija.net/competitions.html

First Naji al Ali results

First International Cartoon Contest Naji Al Ali, Syria 2007 has concluded.
There were 207 authors from 29 countries, who sent 566 artworks to the first edition.
THE JURY
Raed Khalil / Syria: Cartoonist
Walid Naif / Iraq: Cartoonist
Khaldon Gharaibeh / Jordan: Cartoonist
Hani Abbas /Palestine: Cartoonist
Abd Alkader Abdalli / Syria: Critic reviewer
WINNERS:
Cartoon:
Golden Prize: Rumen Dragostinov / Bulgaria (see right)
Silver Prize: Vahid Alimohammadi / Iran (see above)
Bronze Prize : Masoumeh Sadat Mousavi / Iran
Caricature:Golden Prize: Marcio Leite Da Silva / Brazil
Silver Prize: Antonio Ahado Laorenzo / Spain
Bronze Prize: Hasan Ghassemi / Iran (see right below)
Special Prize:David Baldinger / Usa
Chen An Yong / China
Homayoun Abdolrahimi / Iran
Huang Bin / China
Jwan Alzarir / Syria
Ali Javaher / Iran
Erico Junqueira Ayres / Brazil
Success Award:
Athanassios Efthimiadis / Greece, Bayram Hajizadeh / Azerbaijan, Ben Heine / Belgium, Douha Alkhatib /Syria, Erdoğan Başol /Turkey, Ergül Aktaş /Turkey, Louis Pol /Australia, Makhmud Eshonkulov / Uzbekistan, Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei / Iran, Bedaiwi / Egypt, Mehdi Azizi / Iran, Shahid Atiqullah / Afghanistan, Mohammad Saleh Razm Hosseini / Iran, Naji ben Naji / Morocco, Osama Salti / Syria, Phu Nguyen / Vietnam, Rabia Alaridi / Syria, Saed Salloum / Syria, Safaie Masoumeh / Iran, Samandariin Tsogtbayar (SATSO) / Mongolia, Shahin Hooshmand / Iran, Valentin Georgiev /Bulgaria, Ali Shabani / Iran, Atmaja Septa Miyosa (SEPTA) / Indonesia, Lojain Nahar / Syria, Michal Graczyk / Poland, Saeed Sadeghi / Iran, Serdar Günbilen / Turkey, Shahrokh Heidari / Iran.
Participating Countries:
Afghanistan – Australia – Azerbaijan – Belgium – Brazil – Bulgaria – China – Egypt – France - Great Britain – Greece – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Jordan –– Kuwait –Lebanon – Mongolia – Morocco – Palestine – Poland – Romania – Spain – Syria – Turkey – Uzbekistan – USA – Vietnam – Yemen.

WEB: http://www.syriacartoon.com/

CARTUNION 2007

The Second International Cartoon Contest - CARTUNION 2007
State and Religion
Where does one begin and the other end?
A century ago the French decided that question and separated legislatively these two important institutions. This decision became a universal standard and entered the constitutions of many nations. It was believed that the harmony was established and all the interested parties were satisfied. Unfortunately, in the constantly-changing world one or the other side tries to undermine that balance. We see how the ruling elites oppress the believers and disallow any sign of religious worship. Or vice-versa, the ruling group attempting to fill their own ideological vacuum begins to play with religion. There are nations where religious leaders seeking the highest reaches of political office forget about their flock.
The conflict between religious and secular parts of the community flares up often and Russian political scene is no exception to this tendency. The rising clout of Eastern Orthodoxy doesn’t limit itself to caring about worshipper’s souls, and the populist government does everything to encourage the influence of the church on the citizenry. In situations where non-commercial organizations lose their basic rights, the church is provided with various financial and political privileges. Things have gotten so bad that 10 Russian academics sent a letter to the President asking him to safeguard the secular character of the nation.
Wherever there is a conflict, a cartoonist will always find something to write about. We invite international cartoonists to tell us their thoughts on each of the questions discussed.
Contest rules and regulations
1. The theme of the contest is “State and Religion."
2. Everybody can participate in this contest. The number of entries is unlimited.
3. The best works will be exhibited at the CARTUNION site: http://www.cartoon-expo.com/ .
4. Two artists will be awarded with "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker" (on CD and in print) that sells for $60.
5. Format: JPG or GIF. 100 dpi. The largest side of the image should be 650 pixels.
6. The works have to be sent to the following address: cartoongallery@gmail.com Please include your name, country, and e-mail address.
7. Deadline for submissions: November 1st 2007.
8. The competent jury will immediately consider all entries. The results will be announced on November 15th.
9. The authors of the selected works will be asked to send the high-resolution copies.
10. The organizers have the non-exclusive rights to use all the works to promote the exhibition (publications, fliers, etc), without payment to the artist.
11. All copyrights belong to the author.
12. Artists submitting cartoons will automatically agree to abide by the above rules.
The International Cartoonists' Forum CARTUNION.
Contact: Andrey Feldshteyn, cartoongallery@gmail.com

Supporting Street Children

The First International Cartoonet (by email) Exhibition: Supporting Street Children
The Iranian House of Cartoon invites cartoonists from all over the World to participate in this Exhibition.
Regulation:
1-The contest is open to all cartoonists.
2- Theme:
1-Street Children
2-Child Laborers
3) THE PRIZES: Honorable Mention (50)
4) A maximum of 5 works in each section can be submitted by the participating cartoonists.
5) The dimensions of works should be 1200Pixel Jpg Format (High)
6) Comic strip must be presented in one page and without any words.
7) Only Digital cartoons are accepted works achieved by digital tools will be accepted as originals as long as they are hand signed by the author, accompanied by the digital file of the artwork in Tiff format with 300 Dpi resolution on a CD. No photocopies or photographs will be accepted.
9) Name, surname, address and short bio of the participants should be sent by email.
10) The choice of technique is free, color or B&W and etc.
11) The deadline : 22 Jan. 2008
12) The organizers hold all the rights to publish the cartoons submitted to the contest and use them in any from.
13) All participants are considered to accept all the conditions.
14) All works must be sending to the following email address: info@irancartoon.com
Tel: (+98 21) 22868600-22867080
Fax: (+98 21)22846928

2nd Celje Cartoon Contest

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CONTEST
TOPIC: shopping, price, sales, payment, bargain, money, bar code, action and shop.
Entries must be A3 (297 x 420 mm) of size.
Each applicant may submit an unlimited number of entries.
The drawings must not contain any text.
On the back side of each entry there must be full name and address of the applicant.
Applicants should enclose a short autobiography and a self-portrait or a photo.
Deadline for submitting the entries is September 28th, 2007.
ADDRESS to send entries to: CARTOON-SLO, p.p. 181, 3001 CELJE, SLOVENIJA-EU.
Entries will be examined in October.
Awarded contestants will be informed about the Jury's Decision.
Participants whose entries are nominated for the catalogue are entitled to a free copy.
Entrants surrender to the organizer the right to keep entries and shall not have them returned.
Entrants surrender to the organizer the right to publish entries in cataloque or any other form of publication.
Entrants are expected to familiarise themselfs with above stated regulations and to be in agreement with the specifications and conditions of participation.
MAILED ENTRIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE PACKED FLAT.
We accept only the ORIGINALS.
Copies of the works will be dissqualified.
WEB: http://www.cartoon-slo.eu/