7th FCW International Cartoonet Festival - China

7th FreeCartoonsWeb International Cartoonet Festival-2008
1) Sections/Themes:
1. Cartoon:
A) Olympic Humour (for Beijing 2008 Olympic: 1. track and field events, 2. gymnastics, 3. shooting, 4. weight lifting, 5. judo, 6. equestrianism, 7. soccer/football, 8. badminton, 9. tennis, 10. softball, 11. field hockey/cricket, 12. rowing/boat, 13. swimming, 14. archery, 15. wrestling, 16. boxing, 17. fencing, 18. basketball, 19. volleyball, 20. table tennis, 21. baseball, 22. handball, 23. cycling, 24. paddling/skin boat, 25. sailing, 26. modern pen-tathlon, 27. Taekwondo, 28. Iron-man triathlon, 29. Olympics)
B) Free Theme
2. Caricature:
A) Sports Star
2) Deadline: May 01, 2008
3) Entries:
1. Size: Min: A4(210 mm x 297 mm), Max: A3 (297 mm x 420 mm)
2. Quantity: Unlimited
3. Please send original drawings to this Festival. Black & white or colored, any style, any technique will be accepted. Digital artworks(CD&Disk) and good quality photocopies will be accepted.
4. Please write the following information in the top left corner on the back side of cartoon: name, address, tel & fax, e-mail, title & theme, sections.
5. Participants are requested to send together with their cartoons, an entry-form with signature, a photograph or caricature. The form can be downloaded at our website.
6. Titles or entry-form must be filled out in understandable English or Chinese.
7. After sending original drawings, all cartoonists can participate in festival through your own E-mail by submitting your cartoon to: freecartoons@126.com
Format: JPEG Size: max. 2000 k per cartoon Resolution ratio:200 dpi-300 dpi
(Each e-mail must be accompanied by the author's entry-form for the submitted cartoon.)
4) Prizes:
1. Cartoon:

Grand Prize (1 award): Certificate+Catalogue+Olympic Gifts; Gold Prize (2 awards): Certificate+Catalogue+Olympic Gifts; Silver Prize (4 awards): Certificate+Catalogue; Bronze Prize (8 awards): Certificate+Catalogue.
2. Caricature: Grand Prize (1 award): Certificate+Catalogue+Olympic Gifts; Gold Prize (2 awards): Certificate+Catalogue+Olympic Gifts; Silver Prize (4 awards): Certificate+Catalogue; Bronze Prize (8 awards): Certificate+Catalogue.
5) Contact:

Address: Jiang Lidong, FCW2008 Cartoonet Festival, Room 602, No.28 Hong Kong Garden Lane 188, South Jidi Road, Shanghai 201107, P.R.CHINA
URL: http://www.fcwfcw.com/, http://www.fcw.cn/
E-mail: freecartoons@126.com

(Only for Festival) Tel: 0086-21-62216801; 0086-13818006180

Regulations & entry-form 2008: http://feature.fcw.cn/main.php?sLAN=en

Winners of 5th FreeCartoonsWeb International 2007

Winners of 5th FreeCartoonsWeb International Cartoonet Festival - 2007
Juries:

Mikhail M. ZLATKOVSKY: Cartoonist, (Russia)
Raed Khalil: Cartoonist, Syria Cartoon Website (Syria)

Xia Dachuan: Cartoonist, Secretary-China Artists Association (Beijing, China)

Jin Hui: Cartoonist, Shanghai 85 Hospital (Shanghai, China)

Yu Liang: Cartoonist, MaAnshan Daily (MaAnshan, China)

Huang Qigong: Cartoonist, Guangxi City College (Guangxi, China)

Jiang Lidong: Cartoonist, Oriental Morning Post (Shanghai, China)

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WINNERS

Grand Prize: Rumen Dragostinov (Bulgaria)

Gold Prize (2 awards): Valeriu Kurtu (Germany), Marcin Bondarowicz (Poland).

Silver Prize (4 awards): Eugenio de Faria Neves (Brazil) (See top right), Mohammad Ali Khalaji (Iran), Shahrokh Heidari (Iran), Ji Shaohua (China).

Bronze Prize (8 awards): Santiago Cornejo (Argentina) (See right below), Jabbar Abdolee (Iran), Nizar Outhman ( Lebanon), Rooshan Gataullin (Russia), Yuriy Kosobukin (Ukraine), Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan), Dai Peicheng (China), Liu Hong (China)

Success Award (15 awards): Arsen Gagiki Gevorgyan ( Armenia), Louis Pol (Australia), Ivan Haramija (Croatia), Athanassios Efthimiadis (Greece), Nahid Maghsoudi (Iran), Pooya Sareh (Iran), Young Sik Oh (Korea), Jordan Pop Iliev (Macedonia), Jovan Prokopljevic (Serbia), Milenko Kosanovic (Serbia), Ba-Bilig (China), Guo Zhong (China), Jin Xiaoxing (China), Tang Shilei (China), Sheng Kai (China).

Selected Prize (30 awards): Shahid Atiqullah (Afghanistan), Beas Hector (Argentina), Bayram Hajizadeh (Azerbaijan), Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan), Resad Sultanovic (Bosnia), Silvano Rosa Goncalves de Melo (Brazil), Ferreol Murillo Fuentes (Costa Rica), Boeidar Vukelic-BOBA (Croatia), Neda Mobinipouya (Iran), Tadeusz Krotos (Poland), Julian Pena-Pai (Romania), Boris Petrushansky (Russia), Erdogan Basol (Turkey), Ismail Kar (Turkey), Musa Gumus (Turkey), Oguz Gurel (Turkey), Umit Mufit Dincay (Turkey), Kazanevsky Vladimir (Ukraine), Cai Lian (China), Cheng Shibi (China), Li Chongwu (China), Li Jingshan (China), Li Xiaoyang (China), Liu Zhongliang (China), Qiao Wei (China), Wang Ruisheng (China), Yang Xiaobo (China), Zhang Wei (China), Zou Zhengchun (China).

Winning cartoons:

http://www.shiman.cn/search.asp?titleID=29754

http://www.shiman.cn/search.asp?titleID=29770
Winning caricatures: http://shiman.cn/Search.asp?titleID=29767&Pos=0

Source: Karcomic Magazine http://karcomic.com/

Call for entries to Hong Kong Cartoon Art Festival

Dear Pals,

As you all know by now that I have started an international art Gallery in the heart of Hong Kong last month and now we have decided to have an international Cartoon Art Festival from February 5th onwards until April 2008. There will be more exposure through this exhibition to the art lovers and to all participants, taking a step forward to grant a certificate to all the participants including profile exposure through our printed monthly international magazine called FUNWORLD from the month of April. You can send all your entries via email as JPEG file format and please remember to send as 300 dpi jpegs. Send all your entries to: gallery.sarasen@gmail.com or to: menakasene@gmail.com

Please visit the gallery site now and get more details: http://www.sarasene.com/

Thanks folks and hope to receive more mails and entries from you guys!

Good Luck!

With Best regards!

SARA

http://www.sarasene.com/

gallery.sarasen@gmail.com

menakasene@gmail.com

Nature & Man Contest 2008: Drought and Water

THE PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS FOR CARTOON CONTEST NATURE & MAN
The Subject of the year 2008: Drought and Water
The Association of Cartoonists, TEMA Foundation and Cartoon Publishing had organized 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 cartoon may be published or awarded. Technique is free. Can be colored or black and white. The dimensions A4 (21 x 29.7 cm)
Contest 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, those works awarded and those works to be determined by the selection committee will be collected in a CD and will be sent to the owners 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 owners of the works due to these publications.
In case they are used for other purposes or by third parties, then permission will be obtained from the owner of the work.
Those who send their works to the contest, will also indicate whether they can be used or not, in the 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 cartoons may be used in postcards for introductory purposes.
Each cartoonist will be assessed by the jury both for the following month’s elections and the annual elections, whether they are awarded or not by the monthly jury election.
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. Exhibition: The exhibition of the contest cartoons that were drawn previously will be realized at the Gallery of the Association.
Award ceremony: will be announced later.
Sending address: by e-mail dogalcevre@gmail.com and mailto:mnaturalenv@gmail.com
Jury evaluation: Election will be held in 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

7th Euro-Fruitcartoonale - Belgium

7de EURO-FRUITCARTOONALE
An organization of the Imperial Commanderie of the Noble Haspengouwse Fruyteniers and their Gastronomy.
FRUIT & OLYMPIC GAMES 2008
On the eve of the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking become from our Cartooncontest the topic:
Haspengouws fruit and Olympic games 2008.
We wonder ourselves in advance which positive influence can our Fruit from Haspengouw* on this greatest sport event or could in the distant Peking, where the complete international sport world collects. Our jury expects, the Olympic idea keeping in mind that "take part is more important than win" that our Haspengouws fruit in these disciplines will ensure lunatic interpretations and hilarity combinations. The jury expects with impatience your funny interpretations of the topic FRUIT & OLYMPIC GAMES before 27 February 2008.
RULES AND INFO
1. PARTICIPATION
Everybody can participate at this Eurofruit-cartoontest. The participants agree with the regulations and the decisions of the jury. The jury has the right to refuse works for ethical reasons. No correspondence will take place concerning the results and the decisions of the jury.
2. THEME: FRUIT AND GAMES
All humoristic situations concerning things, actions, emotions, persons and events, with regards to the theme ‘Fruit from Haspengouw and the Olympic Games ‘ which are portrayed in a humorous and artistically responsible way, are qualified. Only original designs which include Fruit from Haspengouw (pears, apples, prunes, cherries, strawberries, berries, raspberries...) can win a price. It is forbidden to send in works that have been awarded before, and works that are subjected to third-party rights.
3.CONTRIBUTIONS
Number of works: maximum 5 (without frame)
Dimensions: only A4 size (297 x 210 mm).
Please write on the back side of every cartoon in capital letters: Name, first name, address, telephone, fax, mobile number and e-mail address.
By participating, participants give the organisation the right to use, archive, print and duplicate the works and to let them participate at every initiative, commercially included, without any compensation to the author. The rewarded works remain the organizers property. Non-rewarded and nominated works, which are not collected within three months after the exhibition, also remain property of the organization. The organization is not responsible for damage or loss. The participants who wish to ensure their works, have to do this themselves. The organization takes no responsibility or initiative on this area.
4. DEADLINE 27 FEBRUARY 2008
SEND VIA POST before February 23th 2008 (thoroughly packed and not folded) and sufficiently prepaid at the participants own risk and expense to:
EURO-FRUITCARTOONALE 2008 P/A JOHNY VANDERHEYDEN, HAMELSTRAAT 39, B-3800 SINT-TRUIDEN, BELGIUM
5. PRIZES
GOLDEN, SILVER AND BRONZE AWARDS.
and money prizes €600, € 300, €200, €150
Several special prizes
Baskets with fruit for all the winners
Certificates for the 25 nominations
6. OPENING RECEPTION WITH PROCLAMATION OF THE PRIZES
Friday April 18th 2008 at 8 pm in Cultural Centre “de bogaard” Capucienessenstraat 8, 3800 Sint-Truiden. The participants whose works are nominated and rewarded will be personally invited. All cartoonists who are present receive a cartoon book free of charge.
7. EXHIBITION
The selected works will be exposed from Saturday 19th of April until Sunday, 10th of May 2008 in the white hall of the cultural centre “de bogaard”, Capucienessenstraat 8 in 3800 Sint-Truiden.
8. INFO EUROFRUITCARTOONALE
JOHNY VANDERHEYDEN, Chairman Eurofruitcartoonale
Marshal Keizerlijke Commanderie HAMELSTRAAT 39, 3800 SINT-TRUIDEN, BELGIUM
TEL 0032 (0)11 68 92 59 ( 8-18U30)
FAX 0032 (0)11 68 92 59
eurofruitcartoonale@skynet.be

*Fruit from Haspengouw
pears, apples, prunes, cherries, strawberries, berries, raspberries...

Regulations: http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/graphics_algemeen/Eurofruitcartoonale_ENG.pdf

Results 1st "Laughter is Health" - Argentina

Results of 1st "Laughter is Health"

The objective of the contest was to emphasize the fundamental paper of graphical humor in the prevention in the public health, specially in fulfillment of the law control of the tobacco, approved in September of 2005, by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires.

Graphical humor is a journalistic sort that is able to express a civic commitment, trying to contribute to the reflection and the action, waking up with a smile the conscience in favor of a free life of smoke, without smoking, to be better and not to become ill to third liabilities, victims of whom smoke.
These are the winners of the Contest The Laughter is Health! in 2007:
- Walter Gastaldo - Puerto Rico

- Ignacio Martín Palomares - España

- Elcio Danilo Ruso Amorim - Brasil (See above)

- Ludo Goderis - Bélgica (See below)

- Aliyev Ramil – Azerbaijan.

See all prize-winning cartoons at:

http://www.larisaessalud.com.ar/home_en.php?page=ganadores_en