International festival of caricature and aphorism “Green Green”, Delchevo 2014

Based on article 55 from Statute of Delcevo municipality (“Official gazette of Municipality of Delcevo” 12/06), the Commission for organizing events and cultural manifestations within Municipality of Delcevo, on the occasion of International festival of caricature and aphorism “Green Green”, announces:
C o m p e t i t i o n
For awards for caricatures and aphorism on subject “Green Green”
1. Call for caricature and aphorism on subject “Green Green” is open to authors from Macedonia and abroad, according following criteria:
For caricatures:
- Art works to be original, not marked, black-white or in color;
- Maximum size of caricatures A3 or A4;
- The author should write his personal data on the back side on the caricature;
- The authors in the category of caricature can participate in any number of caricatures.
For aphorism:
Art works to be encoded – code written on the back side of art work, and in separate envelope to deliver following data (name, surname, address and e-mail of author);
Each author sends a set of 10-15 aphorisms;
It is allowed to participate with maximum three art works.
2. The most successful authors in the category aphorism and caricature category will be awarded the following awards:
- golden plaque;
- silver plaque;
- bronze plaque.
3. Jury for this occasion will decide for the awards and selection of caricatures which will be part of exhibition, planned to be opened on 19.09.2014.
4. Detailed information about this call: Mr. Mile Gjorgijoski, telephone 00389 70 382 189, е-mail: mile_otkosi@yahoo.com
5. All received aphorisms / caricatures become ownership of the organizer.
6. Deadline for submission of aphorisms / caricatures: 14.08.2014 (Thursday).
7. Aphorisms / caricatures to be delivered on following address:
Municipality of Delcevo
„Svetozar Markovik” 1, 2320 Delcevo
Republic of Macedonia
Reference: Open call on subject: „Green Green“
Delchevo, 19.06.2014
Municipality of Delcevo
Commission for organizing of events
and cultural manifestations.
Source: blog.zikison.net.

Results of the 5th International Cartoon Contest Virton 2014, Belgium

Theme: "When the peace will be"
WINNERS

1st Prize: Batti (France)

2nd Prize: Sava (Serbia)

3rd Prize: Den Trick (Belgium)

See source page.

OPEN LETTER by Julian Pena-Pai, Romania

OPEN LETTER
Dear Mr. Aydin DOGAN,
You, as a supporter of world culture, you have the authority to stop the deterioration of the most important international cartoon contest worldwide - (Aydin Dogan Int’l cartoon contest).
I am a cartoonist who knows very well the present and the past of this Salon, I have been awarded a few prizes, and I was a member of the 2007 jury.
If you will permit me, please let me inform you that:
1. It is not the international jury that is responsible for the decline of your Salon, because the jury are supposed to analyze only the 120 works selected by the Turkish selection committee . And this, out of over 2,000 works received. This is not fair.

2. I think that Mrs. Candan Fetvaci –very good worker and organisator - is manipulated by the three Turkish cartoonists, members of selection committee, presscartoonists, who are incapable of selecting the best 120 works. (Special Latif Demirci).
See their selection this year.
This selection team has no relation to the high standards of the teams led by master Semih Balcioglu.
The biggest fan of A.DOGAN international cartoon contest,
Julian Pena-Pai

http://www.bestcartoons.net/Car/Simavi-Ay-Dogan-Turkey/Dogan-2014/.

Prize-winning similars in the 31st Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition 2014

More similarities on source and bestcartoons.

Turkish cartoonist wins the 31st Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Contest 2014, Turkey

A Turkish cartoonist has come out on top at the 31st Aydın Doğan Cartoon Contest, which kicked off in Bodrum on June 17 with a day-long session where judges got together to select the winner.
Kürşat Zaman, who was awarded with the third prize in the competition in 2010, won the first prize this year. His winning work depicts a scene where a military helicopter delivers the coffins of those who died in a war as families await their deceased loved ones around a baggage carousel (Top).
The second prize of the contest went to Iranian artist Mojtaba Heidarpanah and third prize went to Krzysztof Grzondziel, who was last year’s winner.
Cartoons by Doğan Arslan, Akın Candemir, Menekşe Çam and Burak Ergin from Turkey, Rafael Correa and Rodrigo Machado da Rosa from Brazil, Pawel Kuczynski from Poland, Peter Nieuwendijk from Netherland, Alireza Pakdel, Sajad Rafeei, and Farzaneh Vazifitabar from Iran, Zhang Wei from China all won Merit Awards at this year’s contest.
A total of 814 cartoonists from 70 countries joined the competition with 2,556 pieces this year.
The international committee, which gathered at Bodrum’s Işıl Club, evaluated 300 cartoons by 214 artists from 43 countries, which had already been chosen by the pre-selection committee.
The selection committee was headed by Liza Donnelly, who is an award-winning cartoonist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine and Forbes. The jury also consists of famous figures Ercan Akyol, Latif Demirci, Selçuk Demirel, Piyale Madra and Tan Oral from Turkey, and Dokhshid Ghodratipour from Iran, Moacir Knorr Gutterres from Brazil, Catherine Meurisse from France, Lichuan Xia from China and Anita O’Brien from London, who is the director of the Cartoon Museum in London.
More on source: hurriyetdailynews.
All winning cartoons here.

VII. Baja Cartoon Competition 2014 with theme: The Glasses

VII. Baja Cartoon Competition
Theme: THE GLASSES = EYEGLASSES
(sunglasses, reading glasses, monocle, etc.)
Competition details:

1.) Participants can submit up to 5 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: 31. 08. 2014.
4.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):

István Kelemen
Baja
Bajza József 19.
6500
Hungary

5.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact e-mail: grafikuskelemen@gmail.com
6.) Awards:

I. prize: 100.000 HUF
II. prize: 60.000 HUF
III. prize: 50.000 HUF
+ three diploma.

7.) The opening ceremony and prize distribution will be at 19.09.2014, Baja.
8.) The organizer will use the entries in the following locations:
- Digital or paper catalogue
- The material exhibition of invitation, poster, leaflets, etc..
- Report on media television, newspapers, magazines, etc..
9.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: www.grafikuskelemen.hu
10.) We do not send back the cartoons.