23rd International Contest for the Young up to 18 year old, Krusevac 2015, Serbia

23. INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR THE YOUNG UP TO 18 YEAR OLD
TOPIC - FAMILY
CATEGORIES
1. CARTOON
2. WRITTEN FORM (short story, poem, aphorism)
3. STRIP
PROPOSITIONS
1. CARTOON - Minimum A4 (210 x 297 mm)
- Maximum A3 (297x420), free technique
2. WRITTEN FORM - maximum two typed pages
3. COMIC - original, up to eight tables, free technique
Works to be signed in full name, family name, address, contact phone and e-mail.
Written works to be send exclusively under a code.
All woks to be properly packed and sent to:
CULTURAL CENTER KRUSEVAC
INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR THE YANG
TOPLICINA No. 2, 37 000 KRUSEVAC, SERBIA
TEL/FAX: + 381 (37) 423 025, 28 983
E-MAIL: zlatnakaciga@kck.org.rs / kck@kck.org.rs
Jury decision will be announced on - 05.02. 2015.
Awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1. 2015.
The Organizer will bear travel cost of awarded authors.
Festival official languages are Serbian and English.
DEADLINE: January 25th, 2015.
Source: kck.org.rs.

"Culture" is the theme for the 12th Tabriz Cartoon Festival 2015, Iran

12th Tabriz Cartoon Festival 2015, Iran
Subject: Culture
Size: The cartoons will be drawn up to 25 x 35 cm sheets maximum.
The cartoons will be posted to the following address:
Iran - Tabriz - Golestan garden - Art Home - Tabriz Cartoon Museum
Deadline: 2015 / 2 / 20
The cartoons will not be returned back,
irrespective they are awarded or not.
Digital cartoons are acceptable.
The contestants are required to provide their IDs complete with
the name, surname, address and telephone information.
Technique: Colored or black and white.
Max: 5 cartoons
Prizes:
1st Prize: US$ 1000
2nd Prize: US$ 750
3rd Prize: US$ 500
5 Awards to adults and 18 Year Old Cartoonists and Students.
www.tabrizcartoons.com.

Results of Dieter Burkamp Award for Caricature 2014: 'Football, Fan and Fantasy'

"Fußball, Fan und Fantasie - Vom Leder gezogen"
28 June – 20 July 2014
1st Prize: Wieslaw Smetek (Top)

2nd Prize: Gerhardt Gepp
3rd Prize: Ivan Prado
Special Prize: Pavel Constantin.
Until 20 July, 80 cartoons by international artists will be on show.
More on source.

SyriaCartoon international cartoon magazine new issue no. 49-50, 01 July 2014

Click here to download in PDF.

9th Braila International Cartoon Contest 2014, Romania

BRAILA COUNTY COUNCIL
The COUNTY CENTER for PRESERVATION
and PROMOTION of TRADITIONAL CULTURE
BRAILA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST
9th EDITION, 2014
The contest is open to all cartoonists.
THEME: PRESS
ENTRIES: max. 5.
SIZE: A4 (210 x 297 mm) – A3 (297 x 420 mm).
TECHNIQUE: Free.
DEADLINE: August 15th, 2014.
The cartoons will be sent in electronic format,
as a scan (JPG 300 dpi) at the following address: cult.traditional@gmail.com;
please assure to enter your full name and address, telephone no., an attached photo and a brief CV;
do not use compression programs (ZIP, RAR, etc).
PRIZES:
• Great Prize - 1500 €;
• First Prize - 1000 €;
• Second Prize - 800 €;
• Third Prize - 500 €;
• 3 Special Prizes – 3 x 300 € (each)
EXHIBITION and PRIZE AWARDING: September 5th, 2014.
REMARK: In order to to pick up the prizes, the winners will have to dispatch the work winning original.
CATALOGUE:
Edition catalog will also include a selection of the most valuable works in the competition;
the selected artists will receive a copy.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila
No. 2, Piata Traian, zip code 810153, Phone no.: +40.239.614.710, Braila, Romania
Email addresses: cult.tarditional@gmail.com.
Source: bestcartoons.

Catalog of the 19th International Cartoon Exhibition, Zagreb 2014, Croatia

Yesterday received the compact catalog of the 19th International Cartoon Exhibition Zagreb 2014, Croatia. 19x19 cm in size, it consists of 96 pages, half color and half b&w. My thanks to the organizers, the Croatian Cartoonist Association.
Musa Gumus is the only cartoonist selected out of 15 participants from Turkey and that is better than nothing I think.
In his introductory essay Ivan Haramija Hans reminds us that Daedalus who wanted to glide in the sky had a disobedient son Icarus who did not know the proverb they have in Croatia: "Who flies high, falls low" and finishes his word after telling the strange similarities between different people of different professions in different times: "The history and the experience has made us cautious: every useful work can harm us if we overdo it a little."
Anachronism as a useful tool to create humorous contradictions, with its types of parachronism and prochronism, is one of the best ways to make a cartoon on inventions and we see many examples of that here in this catalog like Roko's (p.33) and George Licurici's (p.36) works. Is there any work in the catalog that does not make use of anachronism? Let us check and see in the digital one here. Bon voyage!