6.10.15

Cartoons from Croatia in Belgium

CARTOONS FROM CROATIA IN BELGIUM
The Croatian Cartoonist Association was founded in 1985 in Zagreb and this year they celebrated their thirtieth anniversary of existence and successful work on promoting the cartoon in Croatia and the Croatian cartoon in the world. Ever since the beginning the Croatian Cartoonist Association has been a member of the international cartoonist association FECO. With Belgium, the Netherlands and England, Croatian cartoonists were co-founders of this international association.
By participating in many festivals around the world, a lot of their members have won numerous prizes. Over the last few years they have organized Croatian cartoon exhibitions in Norway, France, Turkey, Austria, and Slovenia. So now in Kruishoutem (Belgium), with works of some 30 Croatian cartoonists, as Živko NIMAC, Zdenko PUHIN, Tomislav KAURIN, Srećko PUNTARIĆ, Roko IDŽOJTIĆ, Damir NOVAK, Petar PISMESTROVIĆ, Oto REISINGER, Nik TITANIK, Zarko LUETIĆ, Miroslav GERENČER ... These exhibitions, as well as the overall work of the Association, would not be possible without the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the City Zagreb.
More info on the Croatian Cartoonist Association you can find on their website www.hdk.hr.
You can visit the exhibition in the ECC from 27 September till 20 December 2015, every Sunday from 10 to 12 am and from 2 to 5 pm. Groups of 10 persons or more are welcome on other days by appointment.
More info on the exhibition on ECC website www.ecc-kruishoutem.be.

Mojmir Mihatov
Marijan Pavečić
Oton Reisinger

2.10.15

‘Gandhi through Eyes of Egyptian Cartoonists’ exhibition in Cairo, Egypt

The Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), Embassy of India, Cairo, in collaboration with the Egyptian Caricature Society would be hosting the ‘Gandhi through Eyes of Egyptian Cartoonists’ exhibition at MACIC from 4 – 15 October 2015. The Exhibition will be inaugurated at 18:30 hrs on Sunday, 4 October 2015.

1.10.15

II International Exhibition of Graphic Humor of Pernambuco 2016, Brazil

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE II INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC HUMOUR SALON
1) ABOUT THE THEME
The themes of the II International Graphic Humour Salon of Pernambuco (SIHG-PE) are Human Rights and Thinkers. The idea is to put Human Right issues such as violence against women, ethnic discrimination, homophobia, religious intolerance, children’s and adolescents’ exploitation and political persecution at the centre of discussion. Not leaving aside the guarantee of individual freedoms, the right to come and go and the polemic about privacy between the public and private.
2) ABOUT THE II INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC HUMOUR SALON- SIHG
The idea is to promote, through the cartoons and caricature contest, the reflection about Human Rights and about personalities who contributed with their ideas and thoughts to humanity.
3) ABOUT THE CONTESTANTS
a) Both, Brazilian or foreigners, amateur or professional, graphic artists in general may participate.
b) Each contestant can send up to 2(two) pieces of work for each category: cartoon or caricature, as long as they have not been awarded the price by the time they do so.
c) The candidate to enrol on this contest acknowledges being solely responsible for the veracity of the data and authorship of the work presented, being held liable on a civil and criminal basis, during or after the contest, if proven guilty.
d) Anyone working directly with the organisation, awarding committee and production of SIHG-PE is not allowed to participate, including and up to their second degree relatives.
4) ABOUT ENTRY
a) Registration forms will be provided on the website www.sihgpe.com.
b) The registration must be done exclusively via website.
c) The contestant must fill in a form for each category, attaching the corresponding pieces of work.
d) The pieces of work must be sent in A3 format (297 mm x 420 mm), horizontally or vertically, in JPEG, with resolution of 300 DPI.
e) The organising committee takes no responsibility for entries or work not received due to technical problems with computers, network congestion, communication failure, or any other factor that prevents the successful electronic entry.
f) The homologation of the entries will be published through the confirmation email.
g) The entry will imply accepting this rules and regulations in all its terms, including the deference of the final result of the contest and the items related to the destination and use of the drawings.
5) ABOUT THE FINAL DESTINATION AND USE OF THE WORKS OF ART
a) The pieces of work will go through a pre-selection process and the chosen ones will be shown at the SIHG-PE exhibition. The full list of selected works will also be published on the site www.sihgpe.com
b) The authors of the selected works will assign the copyright to SIHG to their use at the salon during the event and advertisement of the next ones. The prizewinner pieces may be permanently used for advertisement purpose of the current and future editions of the SIHG. In either case, it is not possible to charge for the use of the works, considering the selection and awarding criterion described in this rules and regulations.
6) ABOUT THE DEADLINES
a) The works can be submitted from 1st October, 2015 until 31st January, 2016 by 24:00
b) The judgement of the selected works will occur on 01st April 2016.
c) The exhibition will take place from 3rd April to 1st May, 2016.
7) ABOUT THE JUDJEMENT, SELECTION AND PRIZE
a) For the selection and prize awarding, the obeyed criteria will be: creativity, originality and pertinence to the proposed theme. The selection will be made by a judging commission whose decision must be accepted by the participants, with no possibility of being challenged.
b) The submitted pieces of work will be judged by two juries: a judging and an awarding one. The first mentioned, composed of prepared professionals in the area of graphic humour, will select around 120 (a hundred and twenty) pieces of work to compose the catalogue display. Among these, the awarded will be selected by the awarding commission.
c) From the selected pieces, 4 (four) will be awarded a prize, corresponding to one 1st and 2nd place for each category.
d) The jury may choose up to two works from each category to be awarded an Honourable mention, which does not include a monetary prize.
f) Possible omissions will be remedied in due time by the jury.
8) ABOUT THE PRIZE AWARDING
a) The selected will be awarded the following prizes per category:
CARTOON
1st Place................................R$ 6.000,00 and trophy;
2nd Place...............................R$ 2.000,00 and trophy;
Honourable mention........... Certificate
CARICATURE
1st Place................................R$ 6.000,00 and trophy,
2nd Place...............................R$ 2.000,00 and trophy;
Honourable mention........ Certificate
This makes a total of R$16.000, 00 (sixteen thousand reais) in prizes.
b) All selected works for the exhibition will have their works published in the SIHG catalogue.
c) The winners will be announced on 3rd April, 2016, at 4pm, upon the exhibition opening and through the site of the event. The winners will be informed via telegram, phone call and/or email.
d) The winners will receive the amount of their prize within 40 days from the disclosure via bank account deposit.
f) The amount will be subject to the tax in force at the moment of accreditation.
Samuca Andrade, Organiser
Clériston Andrade, Coordinator.
Source: http://www.sihgpe.com/#!sobre-2/cwv7.

21.9.15

24th International Contest for the Young up to 18 year old, Krusevac 2016, Serbia

24. INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR THE YOUNG UP TO 18 YEAR OLD, SERBIA
TOPIC - LOVE
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 YOUNG
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. 2016.
Awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1. 2016.
The Organizer will bear travel cost of awarded authors.
Festival official languages are Serbian and English.
DEADLINE: January 25th, 2016.
(Source).

18.9.15

Results of the 5th Sports Graphic Humour Competition 2015, Catalonia - Spain

WINNERS
1st Prize: Grigoris Georgiou, Greece (Top)
2nd Prize: Armen Hamonagan, Indonesia
2nd Prize: Osvaldo DaCosta, Brazil.
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Results 8th International Biennial of Caricature "Masters of Caricature", Plovdiv 2015, Bulgaria

P R O T O C O L
Today, 04.09.2015 at Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv in 13:00 was held a procedure on jurying the caricatures, participating in the Eighth International Biennial “Masters of Caricature” – Plovdiv’2015.
The selection and jurying of the caricature art works was conducted by the following jury:
Tsocho Peev – Plovdiv Cartoonists Association
Prof., Dr. Eng. Dimitar Dimitrov – Rector of UARD, cartoonist
Assoc. Prof., Dr. Angel Yankov – Director, REM – Plovdiv
Ass. Georgi Trifinov – Artist, AMDFA – Plovdiv
Stefana Mincheva – PR manager, REM – Plovdiv
The procedure was conducted in the following
AGENDA:
І. Selection of works in accordance with previously developed regulations in several stages as follows:
- Preliminary selection of caricatures in accordance with the topic of the Biennale;
- Selection of the caricatures to be presented in the Catalogue;
- Selection of the 20 best artists to be nominated for awarding diploma;
- Selection of 5 caricaturists to be awarded a master certificate;
ІІ. Evaluation of the nominated caricatures, remaining for storage at fund “Works of art” at Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv
The 209 caricatures by 116 artists (33 countries) were received and presented for selection. The caricatures to be printed in the Catalogue were selected.
After a secret ballot the jury decided:
1. For the Eighth edition of the Biennale in 2015 the following authors are declared “Masters of caricature”:
Marina Gorelova (Belarus)
Konstantin Atanasov (Bulgaria)
Trayko Popov (Bulgaria)
Halit Kurtulmus (Turkey)
Luka Lagator (Montenegro)
2. Artists nominated for awarding a diploma:
Hule Hanušić (Austria)
Bozo Stefanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Veselin Zidarov (Bulgaria)
Dilyana Nikolova (Bulgaria)
Zhivka Kisyova (Bulgaria)
Miroslav Bozhkov (Bulgaria)
Osvaldo da Silva Costa (Brazil)
Georgiou Grigoris (Greece)
Vladimir Semerenko (Russia)
Dmitry Kononov (Russia)
Mehmet Zeber (Turkey)
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan)
David Evžen (Czech Republic)
Darko Drljević (Montenegro)
Special award of the rector of UARD – Plovdiv, Prof., Dr. Eng. Dimitar Dimitrov:
Gennadiy Nazarov (Ukraine).
04.09.2015
Plovdiv
Source: Tsocho Peev.

14.9.15

Results of the 18th International Salon of Antiwar Cartoon, Kragujevac 2015, Serbia

J u r y :
1. METIN PEKER, cartoonist, president (Turkey)
2. TOSO BORKOVIC, cartoonist, (Serbia)
3. JUGOSLAV VLAHOVIC, cartoonist (Serbia)
4. SPIRO RADULOVIC, cartoonist (Serbia) and
5. MIODRAG STOJILOVIC, journalist (Serbia)
d e c i d e d:
1. Grand prix "Peace Messenger" and 1500 euros goes to
XIAOQIANG HOU (China) (Top)

 
2. Gold Plaque and 1000 euros goes to
ANDREI POPOV (Russia) (Above)

3. Silver Plaque an 800 euros goes to
JOVO SKOMAC (Serbia)

4. Bronze Plaque and 500 euros goes to
KONSTANTIN KAZANCHEV (Ukraine)

5. Award of city of Bydgoszcz (Poland) and 750 euros goes to
SERGEY SEMENDYAEV (Ukraine)

6. AWARD of City of Ingolstat (Germany) and 500 euros goes to
CRISTO KOMARNITSKI (Bulgaria)

7. Award of City of Bielsko-Biala (Poland) and 500 euros goes to
SERGEI BELOZEROV (Russia)

8. Award of City Suresnes (France) and 500 euros goes to
MUSA GUMUS (Turkey)

9. Award of City Pitesti (Romania) and 500 euros goes to
VLADIMIR SEMERENKO (Russia)

10. Award of City Carrara (Italy) and 500 euros goes to
SEYRAN CAFERLI (Azerbejdzan)

D i p l o m a s :
1. BA BILIG (China)

2. STEVE JONESY (England)

3. SLOBODAN OBRADOVIC (Serbia)

4. RAED KHALIL (Syria)

5. KRZYSZTOF GRZONDZIEL (Poland).