New issue: ArteFacto # 51, April 2012

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4th Cartoon Museum Conference 2012 will take place in Kruishoutem, Belgium

Cartoon Museum Conference 2012
The 4th Cartoon Museum Conference will take place in Kruishoutem (Belgium). The European Cartoon Center is the host of the 2012 conference. The aim of the conference is to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing between cartoon and caricature museums from over the whole globe.
Participants
The complete list of participants will be available from the 1st of April 2012.
Did already confirm their participation:
- European Cartoon Center Kruishoutem – Belgium
- Cartoon Museum Eskisehir – Turkey
- Azim Azimzadeh Cartoon Museum – Azerbeidjan
- Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art Warsaw -Poland
- Surgut Fine Arts Museum – Russia
- House of Humour Gabrovo – Bulgaria
- Cartoon Museum Zemun – Serbia
- Tabriz Cartoon Museum – Iran
- Portocartoon – Portugal
- Toonseum Pitssburgh – United States of America
- Foundation of the Romanian and universal Cartoon museum – Romania
- Fayoum Caricature Museum – Egypt
- Atila Ozer House – Turkey
- Markiezenhof – spotprentenmuseum Bergen Op Zoom – The Netherlands
- Turhan Selcuk Cartoon House – Turkey
Source: http://cartoonmuseumconference.wordpress.com/participants-3/ .

Invitación exposición "Matando el rato: humor de los 70"

Catalog 1st International Humour Cartoon Competition, Brain Sneezing 2011

Received a week ago the color catalog of the International Humour Cartoon Competition Brain Sneezing - from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back - with Topic 2011: Ideal and idealism. Organized in Prešov, Slovakia, the competition accepted both snail mail and e-mail participation that arrived 682 works of 206 authors from 48 countries. The opening of the exhibition and the awarding of prizes in the premises of the Prešov Centre of Culture was on the 6th December 2011. Prize-winners list here.
The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic from the programme European Capital of Culture 2013 - Košice. Here are the introductory words of Peter Razus, project author and coordinator:
"Brain Sneezing is the reaction releasing the fantasy of the grotesque, in which the ideals of the antique perfection might meet the disillusion about the health of the individual or the society. Once the diagnosis is known, the prescriptions for health improvement can be sent by authors from the whole planet. A curious look in the mirror reflects the absurdity of life situations caused by the deformation of thinking and by the opposition of ideals and illusions. Loud laughter cannot be heard at the exhibition, but the soul reaches catharsis and the brain is tempted to sneeze again."
The catalog is 20 x 21 cm in size and has 36 pages including the covers. In the catalog are included works by Erdoğan Başol, Recep Bayramoğlu, Ahmet Büyükmehmetoğlu, Serpil Kar, and İ. Serdar Sayar from Turkey.
Above: Front cover and two pages of the catalog. Two more pages here.

V. Baja Cartoon Competition 2012 with theme: Gastro-tourism

V. Baja Cartoon Competition
This year the town of Baja organises its fifth cartoon competition; the third time it goes international!
Every fun loving amateur or professional cartoonist over 18 years of age is welcome to enter the event.
Theme: Gastro-tourism – we’re partial to fish, game and wine.
Gastro-tourism is not new; a lot of us like to get to know a new culture through its cuisine.
Baja can be such a tourist destination with its yearly fish soup competition, which attracts hundreds of thousands of gastro-tourists and is famous all over Europe. This grand fish soup feast is part of the Beautiful Baja festival program, which also includes the more and more popular sausage competition and the taste bud pampering wine contest.
Competition details:
1.) Participants can submit up to three original cartoons in A/4 or A/3 size, using any technique. Prints of cartoons produced or coloured with software can also be submitted on condition that it has the cartoonist’s original signature and the print’s serial number.
2.) The participants should write their name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the back of the cartoons.
3.) Deadline for entries: 25 June 2012.
4.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):
István Kelemen
Baja
Bajza J. u. 19.
6500
Hungary
5.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact:
Phone: +36 20 426 58 82
e-mail: grafikuskelemen@freemail.hu
6.) Participants whose works are selected by the jury for the catalogue will receive a catalogue via post.
7.) First prize: HUF 100,000 + certification - Courtesy of the mayor of Baja
Second prize: HUF 80.000 + certification - Courtesy of Kedvenc crosswords magazine
Third prize: HUF 63,500 + certification - Courtesy of Magyar Vadászlap hunting magazine
+ 5 certification.
8.) The jury makes its decision on 2nd July, 2012.
The decision of jury is irreversible.
9.) The opening ceremony and prize distribution will be at 5 p.m. 13. July, 2012.
Address: Bácska Kulturpalota (Bacska Culture Hall) - Szentháromság square, Baja, 6500, Hungary.
10.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: http://www.grafikuskelemen.hu/ .
11.) The organiser retains the right to use the cartoons freely.
12.) We do not send back the cartoons; we intend to make an exhibition from them.
We wish good work and successful participation to everyone.

7th International Cartoon Competition Grafikatur 2012, Germany

7th international cartoon competition GRAFIKATUR 2012
The town Lübben (Spreewald) announces the 7th international cartoon competition “GRAFIKATUR” on the topic “education”.
The submitted maximum three cartoons are not allowed to bigger than 297 x 420 mm, have to be without words and must be submitted as copy (They won’ t be send back).
The sender must be written down clearly on the back of each copy.
The cartoon should reach town administration until the 30th of June 2012:
Stadtverwaltung Lübben
Fachbereich II
Postfach 1551
D-15905 Lübben
(Spreewald)
GERMANY.
Every participant who was judged with least one cartoon for the exhibition from 6th of November 2012 to the 10th of January 2013 will get a catalogue.
Prizes:
“GOLDEN FEATHER” 1000 EURO
“SILVER FEATHER” 800 EURO
“BRONZE FEATHER” 600 EURO.
Regulation in languages: http://www.luebben.com/inhalt/de/rathaus/kunststadt/bilder/ausschreibung-grafikatur2012.pdf .