9th International Cartoon Contest of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds 2017

NINETH INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST
9TH CALL TO THE INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF BRILLIANT MINDS: LA CIUDAD DE LAS IDEAS

BASES
1. The contest is open to professional or amateur artists from around the world that are over the age of 18.
2. All work submitted must be completely original and unpublished. No work must not be participating simultaneously in any other contest or event.
3. The idea to develop and the topic of La Ciudad de las Ideas festival are the following:

Beyond the Blank Slate
What is beyond blank paper?

Express your impressions of what you face when being in front of the blank paper, what would you like to draw that you have not done? What issues would you like to face beyond world events? What is beyond a blank paper? What drawing have you not done and would love the world to see? What would you draw to build the world of your dreams? What do you dream of drawing on that blank paper? Who are you when you face that blank paper? Who do you want to turn into when you fill that blank paper? *
*The organization reserves the right to withdraw from the contest all work considered offensive or that infringe upon human rights and gender equity.
4. Each contestant will be able to participate only with three different works (those contestants who send more than 3 works will be disqualified).
5. All techniques will be accepted (digital or manual, color or b/w).
6. The work may not exceed the following sizes: 22cm x 33cm or a proportional size, and if it is a digital work, the resolution must not be less than 300dpi and no more than 10Megabytes.
7. If the contestant submits his/her original work, the following information shall be attached in a sealed envelope:
• Author’s full name and pen-name
• Author’s photo or cartoon
• Address:
• Phone number
• Email:
• Nationality:
• Title of each work:
• Is this the first time you participate?
• Brief biographical summary (CV).
8. The contestant will sign a certification. If the work is sent by means of the form, the contestant should only click on the acceptance box; if the work is physically sent, the contestant should sign and include the following legend:

Example: I, (name of the author), certify being the author of the work of the 2017 contest, Beyond the Black Slate, and submit them to the contest of La Ciudad de las Ideas. I, (name of the author), accept for the simple fact of submitting this work to the basis of the contest, the use of the same for the purposes that are considered appropriate by Poder Cívico A.C.
SIGNATURE: ________________________

9. Works can be sent by two different ways: Original or Electronic.
Original: send the author’s information in an envelope to the following address:
9o. Concurso Internacional de Caricatura BEYOND THE BLANK SLATE
Reforma 222, Piso 12
Col. Juárez
Delegación Cuauhtémoc C.P. 06600 México D.F.
Electronic: the form must be completed and the works must be uploaded on the following website: www.ciudaddelasideas.com/caricaturas
*Fill out a form for every work submitted. The resolution must not be less than 300dpi and no more than 10Mb.
10. The selected works will be exhibited in Puebla, Mexico, on November 17th, 18th and 19th 2017, and they will also appear on the various broadcast medium of Poder Cívico A. C. In our website and social networks.
The cartoons will only be used to broadcast the festival in various media, including reproduction in catalogs, postcards, books, Internet or television according to the agreements with the sponsors.
11. This call will be valid from June 27th until August 27th, 2017. All the work sent by mail or courier service should have this date registered as deadline on the postmark or mail.
12. The contest results will be announced on the official website of La Ciudad de las Ideas www.ciudaddelasideas.com, on Twitter @cddelasideas, and on Facebook www.facebook.com/Cddelasideas
Winners will be notified by email, which was included in the information submitted. Please ignore any confirmation mail if it does not contains the domain ciudaddelasideas.com or podercivico.org.mx.
13. The jury will be selected by Poder Cívico and it will be able to solve any situation related to the contest that does not obey the established in these bases. The prize may be declared void if the jury deems that none of the works presented have sufficient quality, whose decision will be final. The jury members will be announced once the call is ongoing.
14. Non-winning original works may be claimed by the authors at Poder Cívico A. C. offices three months after the ruling. Any unclaimed original work will remain in the custody of Martha Barragán Méndez, for the return of the works after the date established by Poder Cívico A. C.
15. Prizes
• First place:
- An all-expense-paid trip to Puebla, Puebla, Mexico including: transportation, lodging and food.
- A ticket to attend the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: Puebla La Ciudad de las Ideas, which includes more than 40 conferences from personalities who are changing the world.
- Access to alternative activities of the festival, theme parties, artistic interventions, exhibitions and more.
- The presentation of his/her work in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
- A certificate that will be given in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
• Second place:
- An all-expense-paid trip to Puebla, Puebla, Mexico including: transportation, lodging and food.
- A ticket to attend the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas, which includes more than 40 conferences from personalities who are changing the world.
- Access to alternative activities of the festival, theme parties, artistic interventions, exhibitions and more.
- The presentation of his/her work in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
- A certificate that will be given in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
• Third place:
- An all-expense-paid trip to Puebla, Puebla, Mexico including: transportation, lodging and food.
- A ticket to attend the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas, which includes more than 40 conferences from personalities who are changing the world.
- Access to alternative activities of the festival, theme parties, artistic interventions, exhibitions and more.
- The presentation of his/her work in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
- A certificate that will be given in the framework of the International Festival of Brilliant Minds: La Ciudad de las Ideas.
Three honorable mentions will be awarded: Each one of them will have a certificate that will be sent during the post-festival days.
Note: Prizes cannot be paid in cash nor be transferred to another person.
If you come from abroad, please have a valid passport and visa in order to attend to the Festival in Puebla, Mexico to pick up your prize.

Yours sincerely,
Martha Barragán Méndez “Mar”
concursocaricaturas@ciudaddelasideas.com
Coordinator of the International Cartoon Contest of the
Festival of La Ciudad de las Ideas

Social Networks:
Twitter:
@cddelasideas
@RoemerAndres
@marcartonist
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/LaCiudaddelasIdeas
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Cddelasideas
Website: www.ciudaddelasideas.com
For questions or comments contact:
Tel: +52 (55) 5140-3660 / +52 (55) 8582-5340
Emails:
concursocaricaturas@ciudaddelasideas.com
contacto@ciudaddelasideas.com.

1st "Beavers Laugh" Bobritsa Cartoon Competition 2017, Ukraine

RULES
1 - PARTICIPATION: 16 June to 16 August 2017.
The 1st "BEAVERS LAUGH" Bobritsa Cartoon Competition is open to all graphic artists, who can enter works that have not been awarded until the closing date of the entries, in the cartoon, caricature and comics modalities (The comic strip should have only one page.).
The opening of the Exhibition will be September 15, with the announcement of winners .
Each artist can enroll with the maximum of five (5) UNPUBLISHED works in the format 30x40 cm and using any technique . On the back of each drawing, or in registration must include the author's full name, address (with ZIP code), email, phone number, ID number, social security number and bank account .
The artist can participate by sending their work to skonnov@yahoo.com (with maximum size of 5 megabytes) or sending the originals to:
Bobritsa Cartoon Competition
27 Naberezhaya Street,
Bobritsa, Kiev-Sviatoshin District,
Kiev Region, 08142б
UKRAINE
2 - THEME
The theme of the 1st Bobritsa Cartoon Competition will be BEAVERS LAUGH (the name of the village Bobritsa in Ukrainian language originates from "beaver").
3 - AWARDS
First prize: euro 800.00 (eight hundred).
Second place : 500.00 (five).
Third place : 300.00 (three hundred) .
The awarded works will be considered acquisitive and will become part of the acquis Bobritsa community.
The works will not be returned.
May not participate in this competition officials of Bobritsa community, their relatives and anyone involved in the organization.
The simple inscription configure automatic participant's agreement to all such terms.
Other information: skonnov@yahoo.com or +380 67 235-2536.
Sources: facebook & Seyran Caferli.

Results of the 2nd International Contest Animal Cartoon 2017 theme "Pets", Serbia

ANIMAL CARTOON 2017, PETS
AWARDS
Two First prizes:
Cemalettin Guzeloglu TURKEY (Top)
Muhamed Djerlek Max SRBIJA
Two Second prizes:
Lazo Sredanović MONTENEGRO
Goran Ćeličanin SRBIJA
Two Third prizes:
Marcelo Ferreira BRASIL
Tsocho Peev BULGARIA
DIPLOMAS
Danja Doroški SRBIJA
Guibao Gai CHINA
Manuel Arriaga SPAIN
Zoran Tovirac SRBIJA
Klaus Pitter AUSTRIA
Vladimir Nenashev RUSSIA
JURY MEMBERS
Prof. dr Špiro Radulović (cartoonist, Srbija), jury president
Nenad Ostojić (cartoonist, Croatia)
Tošo Borković (cartoonist, Srbija)
Prof. Jugoslav Vlahović (cartoonist, Srbija)
Jovo Škomac (cartoonist, Srbija).
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See all prize-winning cartoons on source.

Winners of 2nd International Cartoon Contest, Kolasin 2017, Montenegro

FINAL DECISION OF THE JURY
FUNNY T-SHIRTS, KOLASIN, 2017

208 artists from 46 countries around the world participated at the competition, which includes 618 works.
Once preselection being made, we chose 102 best authors with 306 works. The jury started selecting the best 60 works. Works were viewed via a video projector. The best 60 works were printed on A3 format after which the final selection of the top 20 works was made. The works that received four votes from the jury declared the winner. Out of the top ten, the jury selected by secret voting the top three: first, second and third prize. Seven authors have won diplomas.
The FIRST PRIZE, which consists of a trophy, a T-shirt with his work and 300 euros, won: PAOLO DALPONTE, Italia
SECOND PRIZE: A diploma, a T-shirt and the amount of 200 euros, won: SNEZANA ČOMOR, Serbia
THIRD PRIZE: A diploma, a T-shirt and 100 euros, won: ERAY OZBEK, Turkey.
Those who won diplomas are following: Silvano Mello, Brazil; Vahyu Kokkang, Indonesia; Raul Alfonso, Colombia; Peter Klaus, Austria; Mirko Zulic, Montenego; Armen Hamonangan, Indonesia; and Hicabi Demirci, Turkey.
Opening ceremony and exhibition of the best works will be held on July 1st, 2017, in the premise of the culture centre in Kolasin. The festival shall be open by His Excellency, Ambassador of Norway, Arne Bjornstad Sanes, June, 18, 2017, in Kolasin.

International Comics Festival Salon Stripa 2017, Serbia

INTERNATIONAL COMICS FESTIVAL CONTEST 2017
APPLICATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15th, 2017

Address:
SKC Happy Gallery
SALON STRIPA
Kralja Milana 48
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Propositions and rules:
Participants are not age-limited
HIGH QUALITY COPIES ONLY, up to 4 pages, will be accepted. Works have to be sent via post office (e-mails excluded). Along with their work, participants are also required to send a filled APPLICATION FORM for the International Comics Festival Contest 2017 that can be downloaded HERE.
Required language: English
Submitted entries can be previously published
Theme, style, technique and genre are free-choice
Page numbers should be written on the back of each page
Submitted entries will be reviewed for official awards, sponsors' prizes and the festival exhibition.
Awards & Prizes:
Grand prix of the Festival (includes 1000 €)
Awards for the best traditional style comic, the best alternative comic, the best script and the best graphicsSpecial jury award for inventiveness
Awards in the category up to 15 years of age: Young Lion special award (the best entry in the category), Special jury award for the best idea, Special jury award for maturity and imagination
Special jury award for the youngest author
Sponsors’ prizes
Additional information:
www.salonstripaskc.rs
http://www.facebook.com/comicsfest
e-mail: salonstripaskc@gmail.com.

11th International Fair Play Cartoon Contest 2017, Turkey

Fair Play Commission of the Turkish Olympic Committee announces the 11th International Fair Play Cartoon Contest 2017 open.
THEME: Fair Play
CONDITIONS AND PARTICIPATION RULES:
1. The competition is open to all amateur and professional cartoonists.
2. The cartoons will be original production of the artist, revealing his/her own approach. Cartoons sent may be of the ones previously published but previously awarded cartoons are not allowed to submit.
3. Technique: Coloured or black and white. The cartoons will not be drawn by pencil but will be painted by pilot type or similar paint according to printing technique. Marker will not be used.
4. All cartoons must be 25x35 cm maximum.
5. Electronic versions suitable for printing in 200 dpi and jpg format will be accepted.
6. Participants are required to put signatures on their drawings. Participants must write in capital letters their names, surnames, address, e-mail, country and telephone number behind their drawings.
7. The cartoons must be sent to the following address, no later than 07 September 2017
11th International Fair Play Cartoon Contest
Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi Fair Play Komisyonu
Ataköy 34158 / Istanbul – Turkey
Application via e-mail: info@olimpiyat.org.tr
8. Whether awarded or not, selected cartoons will be published in an album. Cartoonists whose drawings published in this album will be sent a copy of the album.
9. TOC Fair Play Commission reserves the right to reproduce the cartoons. By participating in this event, caricaturists agree that all submitted cartoons can be used in exhibitions throughout Turkey and abroad.
10. Regardless of award-winning or taking place in the album, all the cartoons submitted for selection will not be returned.
11. All the cartoonists participated in the competition are implied to agree on the conditions and regulations of the competition.
PRIZES:
First Prize: 1.000$ + Plaque
Second Prize: 500$+ Plaque
Third Prize: 250$+ Plaque
Fourth Prize: 100$+ Plaque
6 Merit Plaques for 6 cartoonists (determined by the jury)
JURY:
* Erdoğan Arıpınar (Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC) senior member, Vice President of the European Fair Play Movement (EFPM), International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) member)
* Prof.Dr. Bilge Donuk (Vice Chairman of the TOC Fair Play Commission)
* Murat F. Özbay (Member of the TOC Fair Play Commission)
* Teoman Güray (Member of the TOC Fair Play Commission, World Fair Play Cartoon Exhibition Manager)
* Cartoonists: Muhittin Köroğlu, Ahmed Öztürk Levent, Nühsal Işın, Şevket Yalaz, Mesut Yavuz.
Source: TMOK.

Similarity in the 5th Niels Bugge Cartoon Award, Viborg 2017, Denmark

Special Prize: Tommy Thomdean, Indonesia
International Anti Terrorism Cartoon Contest 2011, Iran.

2nd Prize: Alexandr Pshenyanikov, Ukraine
5th Niels Bugge Cartoon Award, Viborg 2017, Denmark.
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This report by Vic.

International Cartoon Exhibition Ymittos 2017: Make our day, make us laugh with your pen

International Cartoon Exhibition Ymittos 2017, Greece

Within a situation of gloomy, economic and social hardship. The faces of the people around us are dour. We decided to ask the cartoonist to make our day, make us laugh with their pen. It is a relationship of solidarity that attempts to resist the prevailing climate and bring laughter.
Subject: Make our day, make us laugh with your pen
Submission Deadline: July 25th 2017.
More on facebook.

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Subject to cartoon and sketch:
Make our day, make us laugh with your pen
The Caricature and Cartoon Exhibition will be held
October 21 - November 4
Events Hall Municipal Community Hymettus
To organize events which will include lectures, performances
and various artistic and other events.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

• The drawings must be black and white or in color.
• Each participant may present up to 3 drawings (size A3).
• Resolution must be at least 300 dpi.
• It would be preferable that the drawings should not contain any text or comments. In case they do, the English or Greek language should definitely be included.
• The use of collage is prohibited.
• The drawings must be sent via e-mail.
• The drawings that the Artistic Committee will judge that have been copied from other cartoonists’ works will be disqualified.
• The drawings should not have been exhibited before.
• The drawings should not have offensive content.
• A short CV, the e-mail address, Skype account (if available), and the postal address of each participant is required.
• All participating drawings may be exhibited in a touring exhibition in Greece or abroad.
• The drawings should not have been published previously.
• Drawings that do not correspond to above requirements will not be accepted, and the Cartoonist will be informed by e-mail

EXHIBITION

• They will be exhibited to 200 drawings to be evaluated by the Jury Committee.
• The prizes will be decided by the Jury Committee.
• Eminent experts from the world of Letters and Arts will make up the Committee.

RIGHTS

• The drawings may be used in the advertising campaign of the exhibition. On no account should drawings or copies be sold. Commercial exploitation of part or the whole exhibition is prohibited.
• Participating artists will not receive any kind of payment for their participation.
• Copyright of the exhibition belongs to the organizers.
• Participants will receive a digital catalogue of the exhibition.
• Participation in the exhibition implies full acceptance of all the above terms.

The Jury Committee members

Peter Nieuwendijk President Federation of Cartoonists Organisation, Holland Cartoonist
Bernard Βouton Vice-President Federation of Cartoonists Organisation, French Cartoonist
Leila Alaiy Teacher of Art, Cartoonist, Tabriz/Iran
Marianna Psylla Professor, President of Dept of Communication, Media & Culture Panteion University
Alexandros Loukissas Teacher of Art, Painter, Greece
Yiannis Kaltsas Coordinator of Ο.C.

Submission Deadline: July 25th

The drawings should be sent to the following e-mail address:
cartoondafniymittos@gmail.com
Awards
1st Prize
5 days accommodation (nights) at Delphi Palace Hotel (4*) Delphi
Sponsor Iniohos Kaltsis SA
2nd Prize
3 days accommodation (nights) at Delphi Palace Hotel (4*) Delphi
Sponsor Iniohos Kaltsis SA
3rd Prize
Album of works by expressionist Painter George Bouzianis
(in English or Greek language) edition of the Benaki Museum
4th Prize
Book or CD
5th Prize
Book or CD
Visitor’s award
Book or CD
They also awarded 10 Praises.
All participants whose works will be exhibited will receive a Digital Certificate of Participation.
The Organizing Committee.

Silence is the theme in the International cartoon competition Brain Sneezing 2017, Slovakia

PRERAG, association
announces the international cartoon competition
Brain Sneezing - from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back
Topic 2017: SILENCE
Brain Sneezing & Cartoons Therapy
Deadline: 15th August 2017 (EXTENDED:) 08 September 2017

Competition terms:
Each author can send maximum 5 original works.
The competition is open to everybody and is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
The format of works should not exceed the A4 dimension.
The competition is non-anonymous.
The works can be sent either online, by filling the electronic application form, or via regular mail, with each work signed on the reverse with the author´s name and their address.
The rewarded works will become the property of the organiser.
Registration: http://www.cartooneast.com/index/registration
The results will be announced on the 15th September 2017 and the winners will be awarded the following prizes:
1st prize: 500.00 EUR
2nd prize: 300.00 EUR
3rd prize: 200.00 EUR
The competition Jury reserves the right to grant other special prizes or not to grant some of the prizes.
The organisers will accept all the works that will be delivered online at the web address.
The organisers reserve the right to publish selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition. The catalogue will be sent to each competitor whose works will be published in the catalogue.
The authors agree that their works become the property of the organisers at no charge, that copies of their works might be made and used in re-installing the exhibition in other venues and that their works might be published free of charge in order to promote the exhibition.
The international competition and exhibition "Brain Sneezing - from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back" is financially supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
Address :
PRERAG
Dubová 5
080 01 Prešov
SLOVAKIA
email: info@cartooneast.com.
Also on facebook.

Cancellation of the First Prize in HumoDEVA 2017, Romania

Dear Artist,
A few days ago, with quite delay, Louis Pol sent to us the drawing you can find below, that was published in the Belgrad 2016 catalog (Zoo), at page 99.

The drawing has a striking resemblance to the drawing below, that we prized at the contest.

We don't accuse Rodrigo da Silveira of plagiarism or something like that, might be a simple coincidence of ideas. But the drawing made by Rodrigo lost its originality, an important quality for a cartoon that's to win a contest.
As a follow up, with regret, having to consider all this, we decided to cancel this First Prize ex aequo awarded at HumoDEVA 2017, Romania contest.
The updated list for the HumoDEVA 2017 prizes can be found here.
From here you can download the HumoDEVA 2017 catalog.
On behalf of the jury,
Horia CRISAN.

5th Gold Panda International Cartoon and Illustration of Picture Book Competition 2017

THE 5TH GOLD PANDA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON AND
ILLUSTRATION OF PICTURE BOOK COMPETITION

1. Participation
The competition is open to all artists (Picture book artist, Illustrator, Cartoonist, Comic artist, Caricaturist, Printmaker and Painter) regardless of nationality, age, sex, etc:
1) illustrators, including professionals and newcomers, submitting unpublished works or works of published.
2) art colleges submitting projects produced by their students in the last four years of study.
3) publishers presenting their illustrators.
2. Organizer
Host：Gold Panda Foundation
Sponsor: Red Man Art Center.
Official website: www.redmanart.com
3. Theme
A) Elves, Monster, Wonderland, Myth, The fairy tale, Legend. (It could be China, it could be the world.)
B) Cooperation, Link
C) Panda / Free theme
You can choose any theme, painting works.
4. Entries
1) The works whether they have been awarded in other contests previously will be accepted.
2) 8 original illustrations (minimum number), produced using any technique, including computer graphics (in case of mixed technique, please send both original drawings and printouts of the ultimate artwork).
3) The minimum 8 -- maximum 100 entries should be submitted for each category. These works form a story. Work is only allowed in Chinese or English. Words can't appear in works. If you need to writing, must be in English (or Chinese), writing the other a piece of paper .English (or Chinese) words according to the serial number order of works to write clearly.
4) The works should be accompanied by the author's resume and photo (or caricature).
5) First name, Last name, Address, Email, Telephone number should be written on the reverse side of the works. Please specify in envelope: “2017 Gold Panda”
6) Technique and medium of works are unlimited. Any painting, Print making, Traditional Chinese Painting, Oil painting, Watercolor, Crafts art or sculpture will be accepted.
7) Competition does not charge any fee.
5. Entry Form
Please down load the entry form on our website: www.redmancartoon.com/en
The self made entry form is not accepted. Each author must imperatively enclose the entry form, filled in every part and duly signed.
The registration form – must be sent back signed and scanned, together with the caricatures to: hongtuart8@163.com (or to: hongtucp@163.com)
6. Deadline
1) The first stage (Digital works): 31 August 2017.
2) The second stage (Original works): 10 October 2017.
7. Delivery
1) The first stage:
Please E-mail your works to: hongtuart8@163.com (or to: hongtucp@163.com), There is no limit on the number of works. You can upload more than one book or some books illustrations.
2) The second stage:
After your works was selected, the organizing committee will notify you, send your original works mail to the organizing committee, to participate in the final awards. The largest number 8 works.
Please send works to the address:
HU XIAO YU
ROOM 341 BUILDING #364, ZHAN QIAN BA LI XIAO QU
YUN JING DONG LI, TONG ZHOU QU,
BEIJING 101121, CHINA
8. Judgment
1) The jury committee is composed of artists, press editors, illustrators, cartoonist.
2) The jury meeting will be held on December 2017.
3) The committee will announce the result on January 2018 on website. At the same time organizer will contact the winning artists via postal mail or email.
9. Prizes
1) Gold Panda prize (Best Picture book) (1): Golden Panda Medal + 10000 RMB
2) Best work prize of Illustration (1): Silver Panda Medal + 3000 RMB
3) Best work prize of CG (1): Silver Panda Medal + 3000 RMB
4) Best work prize of Cartoon (1): Silver Panda Medal + 3000 RMB
5) Best work prize of Comic (1): Silver Panda Medal + 3000 RMB
6) The special prize of jury meeting (30 places): Copper Panda Medals + Catalog
7) Selected: Catalog.
10. Copyright
Explicitly participators have whole copyright for their entries. The committee has the right to use all the submitted works to spread competition on media, websites, posters, post cards, advertisements, etc.
11. Catalog
The authors whose works have been selected will receive one copy of the catalog made for the competition.
12. Provisions
1) The submitted works will not be returned. They will be exhibited and displayed in RedMan International Cartoon House.
2) Participation in the contest means the complete acceptance of all the above conditions and agreements with jury's decision.
For Information
HU XIAO YU
ROOM 341 BUILDING #364, ZHAN QIAN BA LI XIAO QU
YUN JING DONG LI，TONG ZHOU QU,
BEIJING 101121, CHINA
Web: www.redmanart.com/en
Email:
hongtuart8@163.com
hongtucp@163.com.

Belgian artist Pieter De Jaegher wins the 5th Niels Bugge Cartoon Award 2017, Denmark

Results of the 5th Niels Bugge Cartoon Award, Viborg 2017, Denmark
Theme: Communication
WINNERS
1st Prize: Pieter De Jaegher, Belgium (Top)

2nd Prize: Alexandr Pshenyanikov, Ukraine

3rd Prize: Vladan Nikolic, Serbia.
The Jury:
Lars Refn, Denmark
Carlos Brito, France
Riber Hansson, Sweden
Jugoslav Vlahovic, Serbia
Peter Dyring-Olsen, Denmark.
The Participants.
Source: http://www.nielsbuggeaward.org/.

Results of the 49th International Cartoon Contest Osten WGC, Skopje 2017, Macedonia

These are the results of the decision of the International Jury on the 49th WORLD GALLERY of CARTOONS Skopje 2017!
The first selection was made by prominent cartoonist Damir NOVAK from Croatia, while members of the international jury deciding on the prizes were: Rudy GEYSENS (Belgium), Angel BOLIGAN (Mexico), Massoud Shojai TABATABAI (Iran), Seyran CAFERLI (Azerbaijan) and Mice Jankulovski (Macedonia). Due to the high quality of the submitted works, the selection and judging process was difficult, still they agreed on this results:

FIRST AWARD FOR CARTOON - Claudio Antonio GOMEZ (Brazil) (Top)
FIRST AWARD FOR COMIC - Nedeljko UBOVIC (Serbia)

FIRST AWARD FOR SATIRICAL DRAWING - Reinaldo Pagan AVILA (Estonia) (Above)
CICO AWARD (for Macedonian Cartoonist) - Blaze DOKULESKI.
SPECIAL AWARDS were granted to:
Musa GUMUS (Turkey)
Branko ILIC (Croatia)
Klaus PITTER (Austria)
Milanko KALICANIN (Serbia)
Bob DARROCH (New Zealand)
Makhmudjon ESHONKULOV (Uzbekistan)
Luc DESCHEEMAEKER (Belgium)
Ross THOMSON (United Kingdom)
Vladimir KAZANEVSKY (Ukraine)
Hamidreza MOSAYEBI (Iran) (Down).

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners, and many thanks to all participants of the 49th WORLD GALLERY OF CARTOONS Skopje 2017!
You have all made a contribution to the universal struggle for freedom of speech and expression, and it was our honor to provide you with a platform to communicate your points of view, ideas and inner feelings on matters which are relevant!
See you next year!
This report by OSTEN World Gallery of Cartoons.

Exhibition of Graphic Humor Nomad, Forced Migration 2017, Spain

Presentation
La Coordinadora d’ONGD I aMS and Humoràlia organize the Graphic Humor Show NOMADIC, Forced migration.
The aim of the exhibition is to carry out an awareness-raising campaign aimed at society to raise awareness of the causes of migration processes and to highlight the importance of the Right to Migrate as set out in the Charter of Emerging Human Rights. The graphic art is a visual journalistic genre of denunciation and civic commitment that seeks to contribute to the reflection, in this case the causes of forced migration.
Basis
1. Any professional artist or amateur can take part in the exhibition.
2. The exhibition topic is: FORCED MIGRATION: armed conflict, structural violence, post conflict situation, economical, environmental/ecological, ideological/policy, gender, sexual identity, ethnical, religious and/or cultural.
3. The Deadline for sending the works finishes on June 25, 2017.
4. The works may be carried out in any technique, with Din A4 format (210 mm x 297 mm) or proportional.
5. Participants may send a maximum of 3 works, in black and white or in colour, if it is possible without text. In case of including a text, this must be in Catalan, Spanish, English or French.
6. Works have to be sent by e-mail to odm@coordinadora-ongdlleida.cat to 300 dpi in JPG o JPEG format.
7. In the same e-mail, include a document containing the following information: Title of the work, name and surname, pseudonym, postal address, telephone (with the corresponding international prefix), e-mail, a brief CV and a photography or caricature of the author. The organization undertakes to confirm receipt of the work via e-mail.
8. Due to the character of the Exhibition, the selected works will be not rewarded with any economical amount. On the contrary, the organization undertakes to send by post mail 2 copies of the printed catalogs to the authors of the selected works.
9. An on-line catalog with the selected works will be edited and published on the website of the Coordinadora www.coordinadora-ongd-lleida.cat.
10. A jury made up of qualified specialists in Solidarity and Graphic Humour will make a selection of 50 works among the presented ones.
11. The jury’s decision will be unappealable.
12. The selected drawings will be part of an itinerant exhibition of Humoràlia i la Coordinadora d’ONGD i aMS de Lleida
13. The works, as are digitals, will not be returned.
14. The author’s participation in the contest implies permission for the work to join the works presented and take part in the publication in an exhibition and a virtual gallery. The only aim of that use is to raise awareness between the populations about the causes of migrations processes. The use of the work will have no lucrative purpose. In all media where the work is published, the author’s name will always be indicated.
15. Taking part in the Exhibition implies accepting the entire terms and conditions. The Jury will solve any doubt that can arise.
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Winners in the 22nd International Cartoon Exhibition Zagreb 2017, Croatia

The 22nd International Exhibition of Cartoons ZAGREB 2017
has seen the arrival of 590 works of 249 authors from 55 countries.
Theme: HOTELS, HOSTELS, APARTMENTS AND CAMPS
THE WINNERS

FIRST PRIZE: IGOR LUKYANCHENKO, Ukraine

SECOND PRIZE: RONALDO CUNHA DIAS, Brazil

THIRD PRIZE: ROOZBEH JAFARZADEH, USA.
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SPECIAL MENTIONS

MIDHAT AJANOVIĆ, Sweden

AIDARBEK AZIZOV, Kazakhstan

OLEKSY KUSTOVSKY, Ukraine

DAMIR NOVAK, Croatia

TRAJKO POPOV, Bulgaria.
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A place. Somewhere - International Cartoon Competition EXILE 2017, Germany

EXILE International Cartoon Contest 2017
Essen, Germany

A place. Somewhere - International Cartoon Competition
Never before have so many people across the world become refugees or have chosen to leave their home countries for some reason. UNHCR – the United Nations High Commission for Refugees – estimates that there are currently about 60 million refugees, and the numbers are increasing every year. In addition there are those who take flight, unregistered and unseen, within the family or in secrecy across borders, who do not appear in any statistics and whose numbers can only be guessed at. Today there are 250 million people worldwide living in a country other than the country of their
birth.
There are as many reasons for this state of affairs as there are for the fates of the individuals concealed behind the figures. They leave their homes to escape poverty and a lack of prospects, to flee war, environmental destruction, the consequences of climate change, the effects of discrimination and persecution on account of their gender or sexual orientation, and because they belong to a different ethnie or religion or hold a different political viewpoint.
The consequences for those affected, their families and friends, are enormous. Uprootedness, life as a refugee living in a camp or a home, of which only a fraction are in Europe or other western countries, confront people with severe and bitter problems. What all these people have in common is the desire to reach a place where life is better and more worth living, and to spend their lives in dignity and peace.
But where are attempts to remove the structural causes of poverty and marginalization through education, participation, medical care, humane workplaces, tolerance and cultural diversity to be found?
Where are there successful attempts to create living conditions such that people will stay at home or return there rather than opt for perilous ways of escape?
And where have there been attempts to enable people to live in dignity and security and to put down roots in a new home?
In announcing the international cartoon competition A place. Somewhere our aim is to gather voices and ideas, which will help us to understand the causes of flight and migration from various countries and from differing points of view, and to show the consequences for the lives of the people affected, particularly how women and children are affected. We also want to ask where and alternatives come from which contribute to combating the causes of flight.
The results of the competition will be publicized in the form of a travelling exhibition to be mounted in as many cities as possible, and an accompanying catalogue. We do not just want to inform people about how those in other countries and regions of the world see the theme, but also to encourage people to involve themselves in the public debate on flight and migration.
Conditions of Participation:
Artists may submit up to three works. The maximum size of the cartoons is DIN A3 or a data file with a resolution of 300 dpi (black and white or colour).
The final date for submissions is July 30th 2017. Submissions should be sent to:
EXILE-Kulturkoordination,
Wandastr. 9, D 45136
Essen,
GERMANY
or
competition@exile-ev.de
(in German or English).
A jury will select the best three works, which will receive prizes of 1000 Euros, 750 Euros and 500 Euros, as well as 10 works, which will receive an honourable mention, and about 100, which will be displayed in a travelling exhibition and a catalogue. Through their participation the cartoonists agree to grant EXILE the rights to the publication of their work in the exhibition and the catalogue as well as for use in public relations.
Exile is a non-profit agency for international and intercultural projects in the arts, culture and
education. Since its foundation it has organized eight international cartoon competitions and has mounted successful travelling exhibitions on such themes as migrant labour, racism, ecology, and the rights of women. “The projects developed by EXILE Cultural Coordination aim through art and culture to make unheard voices audible and in this way to contribute to a change of perspective and understanding of social diversity in a globalized world”
A project of EXILE-Kulturkoordination in cooperation with Engagement Global commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Cooperation.
Web: http://exile-ev.de/en
Source: Goethe-Institut Nairobi.
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19th Annual Biennial Cartoon Competition, Novomestsky Osten 2017, Slovakia

Novomestsky Osten 2017
XIX. ANNUAL BIENNIAL CARTOON COMPETITION
TOPIC: HAPPY LIFE
DEADLINE: 31.7.2017

Competition rules:
1. Each author can send at maximum five original works, including graphic techniques.
2. The competition is open to everyone. It is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The format of the works should not exceed the size A3.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the back and bear the author´s full address.
5. Submitted works will be not returned to the author and will become the property of the MsKS Nove Mesto nad Vahom.
6. Works should be sent to:
Mestske kulturne stredisko, Hviezdoslavova 4,
915 01 Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Slovakia
Friday the 15th September 2017 will be held in Nove Mesto nad Váhom an exhibition of the best competing works, a festive announcement of the results and the handling of prizes to the most successful authors of the 19th competition in accordance with the Jury´s decision will take place as follows:
1st Prize: Gold Novomestsky Osten and 300 €
2nd Prize: Silver Novomestsky Osten and 200 €
3rd Prize: Bronze Novomestsky Osten and 100 €
The Competition Jury reserves the right not to grant any of the prizes or to grant other special prizes.
The organizers of the competition reserve the right to publish selected works in promotional materials.
Selected competitor will receive a catalog.
WEB: msks.
Source: toonsmag.
Updated 18.06.2017.

8th International Award of Humor and Satirical Customs, Premio Novello 2017, Italy

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMPETITION
“Novello: a good family gentleman”
8th Edition of International Award of Humor and Satirical Customs
Art director Andrea Fedeli
We are announcing the 8th edition of International Award of Comic and Satirical Customs:
“Novello: a good family gentleman”
promoted by the Town of Codogno with the support of public and private organizations.
LOCATION

The Award’s secretary office is located at
Town of Codogno
Services to the Citizens (Sector)
Culture Office
Via Gandolfi, 6
26845 Codogno (LO) Italy
Phone number +39 0377/314263- 31424- 314247
ufficio.istruzione@comune.codogno.lo.it
www.premionovello.it

RULES

Terms
Each participant to the Novello Competition will submit a maximum of three inedited comic-satirical cartoons.
Are considered inedited all drawings never published on web or on paper magazines and never shown on any exhibition.
Admission
The participation to this Competition is open to professional and non-professional artists.
They will compete in two different categories.
At registration to this Competition all candidates will clearly indicate their professional category confirmed by at least one easily verifiable publication.
Present the requested credentials, based on the choosen category (professional category: have to indicate at least one simply verifiable publication).
Applications not specifying their professional category will be rejected.
(Where is not going to be declared the category of participation, the work will be void considerated.)
In case of junior competitors the family consent is requested in case of victory at the Competition.
Terms of participation
Each competitor can submit a maximum of three cartoons, according to the theme:

THE FAMILY

All authors will present their works according to this theme in its many variable aspects, giving an innovative and original vision in a satirical aspect.
Being a theme of great interest and hard debate, the Commission allows artists to use their personal vision about it. However all works must not be related to any political position or suggest messages that can be offensive against decency.
The judgement on works will be the unique and irrevocable decision of the Commission of Evaluation.
All works must be according to the real spirit of the Award, that is humour and satirical customs.
All works can be realized using any drawing technique, in fact works can be in black and white or in colours and they can contain written texts.
Technical peculiarities and expiration date
All drawings must be sent in electronic format and must be loaded (loading them) in the provided form on the following web site: www.premionovello.it not later than 1st October 2017.
All works must have these peculiarities:
JPG 300 dpi - high resolution - print size A4 - information characteristics max 10 Mbyte.
Other formats of presentation are not accepted.
The Jury
The Jury is set up by professional artists and well-known names in the world of Comics and Humour Cartoons, as well as journalists, critics and well-read personalities in the world of culture.
Prizes
All works with a good evaluation by the Jury will be exposed at the exhibition “International Award of Humour and Satirical Customs” that will take place in January 2018 in the premises of the historical “Vecchio Ospedale Soave”, Viale Gandolfi 6- Codogno (LO)- Italy.
The winners will receive the following prizes:
Amateur Artists (COLLECTORS)
First Prize Euro 1000 + diploma
Second Prize Euro 500 + diploma
Third Prize Euro 300 + diploma.
Professional Artists
First Prize Euro 1000 + plate
Second Prize Euro 500 + plate
Third Prize Euro 300 + plate.
Winners will enclose to their application their personal identity documents.
All works received for this Competition will be filed in the archives of the Award and will be used for its promotion purposes or for other cultural activities of the Town of Codogno in public or private communication as magazines, daily newspapers, books, on web, etc. in Italy or abroad.
Therefore, with the participation to this Competition all authors give their consent to the reproduction of their works, not for profit. (provided it has not lucre purposes)
Prize ceremony
The prize ceremony will be celebrated at the same time of the inauguration of the exhibition dedicated to the Award, in the premises of “Vecchio Ospedale Soave”-Codogno, at the presence of the members of the Selecting Jury.
This ceremony will be on January 2018 on a day to be chosen.

Theme in Caneva Ride Contest 2017, Premio Toni Zampol, Italy: In Vino Veritas?

In order to resume the ability to smile on ourselves, our vices and our everyday life and invite us to a break of lightness, the Association Pro Castello di Caneva proposes the fourth edition of the Caneva Ride Contest! Open to designers around the world.
The theme of 2017 edition: In Vino Veritas? In wine there is truth? Does wine or alcoholic beverages generally help to be more sincere? Under the livelihood we are less liars? Does a glass pull the other one? Pencil your judgment. The award was born to celebrate the memory of Toni Zampol, who for many years veiled the vices and virtues of Caneva and its inhabitants with his pencil.

THEME: In Vino Veritas?
DEADLINE: 30 June 2017
EXHIBITION 15 July 2017

RULES “CANEVA RIDE” 2017
1 - THEME
Pro Castello di Caneva promotes the international award Caneva Ride! (Caneva Laughs!) for humoristic sketches and satirical costume about the theme In vino Veritas? In wine there is truth?
2 - PARTECIPATION
The award is open to all cartoonists of the world from 16 years old. Participants can apply individually or in groups (in case of several authors, the referent for all communications with the award’s promoters shall be indicated)..
3 - TECHNIQUES
Up to three unpublished works, realized by any technique, color or black and white, which haven’t been awarded in other prizes. The maximum format shall be A4 (21 X 29.7 cm).
4 - DEADLINE
Works shall be submitted within 24:00 of 30 June 2017 at the address canevaridecontest@gmail.com, as a .jpg, .tiff or .pdf file with resolution of 300 dpi, and report all personal data (first name, surname, complete address, phone number, in case of minors the name of one parent authorizing the participation). Every single file shall not exceed 5 MB. If more than one single work is submitted, then send each by single mail.
5 - JURY
Manuel de Carli, Cartoonist - President of the Jury; Pietro Francesco Manfè, Pro Castello - Caneva; Vicenzo Bottecchia, Cultural Comics Operator; Giancarlo Rupolo, Photographer.
6 - AWARDS
FIRST PRIZE euro 600,00
SECOND PRIZE euro 250,00
THIRD PRIZE euro 150,00.
The jury reserves the right to report other works, which shall not receive any money prize. The authors, by participating the competition, agree with the non-exclusive right to reproduce the works on any support for promotional purposes of Pro Loco Castello, without any claims of copyright.
7 - EXHIBITION
Opening of the exhibition and prize giving will be held Sunday 15th July 2017 during Castello in Festa 2017.
Source: canevaride.
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