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2.1.10

Marjan Pecev sends greetings for the New Year 2010

Happy New Year
Marjan Pecev
XI IFAK Strumica 2010.

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(This is also a reminder for me to send my cartoon for the International Festival of Aphorism and Caricature 2010 organised in Strumica, Republic of Macedonia, with the approaching deadline: January 11. Sure will I on Monday, because I am finishing it tomorrow.)

New Year 2010 greeting card from caricaturist Zach Trenholm

A Special Health Care Reform Bill Edition of bobbing celeb heads from 2009....
(Apologies to those from outside the U.S.! Clockwise: Sen. Joe Lieberman, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Max Baucus, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Lindsey Graham....)
Zach Trenholm/ Caricaturist
San Francisco, CA. USA
http://www.zachtrenholm.com/

31.12.09

5th International Cartoon Contest Santomera 2010

5th International Cartoon Contest Santomera 2010 - Spain
The Council of Santomera has organised this competition according to the following
RULES:
1. All professional cartoonists or not of any countries may take part in this competition.
2. Each cartoonist can submit 2 originals, being essential that the original works have not been submitted to a previous competition.
3. TOPIC: “GLOBALIZATION, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY”.
4. The works must be original, any painting technique being accepted. Top quality prints of works achieved by digital tools will be considered originals as long as the author sings them, and with the indication that it is Print nº1.
5. The format of the works will be maximum 30x42 cm without frame.
6. The following PRIZES have been established:
1st PRIZE: 1000 euro
2nd PRIZE: 700 euro
Two runners-up: 200 euro
Special prize best work in Murcia's Region: 200 euro
Special prize best work in Santomera: Graphic Tablet (worth 200 euros).
7. The entries should be submitted from 11th January until 26th February 2010 by 14:00. No work will be accepted after that limit time.
8. Each of the works for submission must carry an identification label, clearly filled in, including name of cartoonist, as well as address, phone number, photograph, e-mail and a brief curriculum.
9. All works must be sent to this address:
V CONCURSO DE HUMOR GRÁFICO “SANTOMERA 2009”
Ayuntamiento de Santomera CASAGRANDE (Inmigración)
C/ Cuatro esquinas, 58,
30140 Santomera • Murcia • SPAIN
10. The jury panel will be made up by members designated by the Women, Equal Opportunities, Elderly and Immigration Department of the city council. The decisions of the Jury will be final and will be made public on 9th March 2010. The jury has the right to declare the prizes deserted.
11. The selected works will be exhibited from 29th March until 30th April 2010 in the premises of Casagrande in Santomera.
12. The entries will be judged according to the following criteria: Quality, originality and relation with the chosen theme. Entries transmitting positive messages will be especially valued.
13. The prize-winning works will become the property of the Council of Santomera and will not be returned to their authors. The authors accept that the City Council will have all the exploitation rights over the work for its reproduction, public communication and distribution.
14. Non-award winning entries will be returned to their authors, provided that this has been clearly stated in the identification label (works which do not respect the contest's rules will not be returned). These works will be returned once the Council of Santomera has concluded the programmed exhibitions.
15. These rules will be published in the Bulletin Board and Web page of the City Council http://www.ayuntamientodesantomera.com/, as well as in the following blog: http://humor-grafico-santomera.blogspot.com/
16. By participating in the contest, you accept all the previously stated rules.
Santomera, 9th December 2009.

Greeting e-cards arrived on the New Year's Eve

Gentlemen!
Let's the New Year will be the funniest year ever!
Happy New Year!
Andrey Feldshteyn
CARTUNION
http://www.cartoonblues.com/

Recep Bayramoğlu

Burak Ergin

Ivan Hanousek

Kishore Ahmed
http://ahmedkabir.wordpress.com/

30.12.09

American caricaturist David Levine passed away (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009)

World-famous caricaturist David Levine dies at the age of 83 on Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments. He was diagnosed with the eye disease macular degeneration in 2006.
Levine's drawings of politicians, literary people and historical figures typically had large heads and exaggerated features. Especially his political portraits showed the mind of an artist worriedly concerned about the world in which he lived: Among his most famous images is that of President Lyndon B. Johnson pulling up his shirt to reveal that his gallbladder operation scar was shaped like the map of Vietnam.
Levine's work appeared in The New York Review of Books, Esquire, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Time and The New Yorker, among other publications.
Levine also did watercolor paintings, many depicting New York scenes.
(Summarised from: wikipedia; nytimes; bostonglobe).