'Stop Violence Against Women': International Exhibition of Graphic Humor 2016, Peru

EXHIBITION OF GRAPHIC HUMOR
'STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN'

Especially violence against woman exercised by their partner and sexual violence is a serious public health problem and a violation of human rights woman.
The recent global prevelance figures indicate that 35% of woman worldwide have experienced dating violence or sexual violence by others at some point in their lives.
30% of woman who have had a relationship report experiencing some form of physical or sexual violence from their partner. 38% of murders of woman produced in the word are committed by their partner.
Against this background it is impossible to remain silent and therefore appeal to all possible tools to eradicate this problem.
In this context, the organization of the International Exhibition of Graphic Humor, invites all cartoonist in the world to send their works on this serious problem, for display in a public exposition.
REGULATION
+ All persons who wish regardless of age can participate. Each participants can submit up to three works. Other works presented will be accepted events or have won a prize or distinction.
+ Entries can be made in black and white or colors. The works will have a resolution of 300 dpi in JPG format and should be sent to salonhumorperu@salonhumorperu.com until 31 January 2016.
+ Participant should send their personal data: name, address, and contact phone number.
+ A selection of 120 works for the exhibition in large format and will also be part of a commemorative catalog that will be mailed to artist selected.
+ Participating artist agree to donate their rights to reproduce his works in the exhibition, in the catalog or graphic pieces we make for promote the event.
Source: salonhumorperu.

Theme in the 1st International KYM Cartoon Competition 2016, Turkey: Refugees

INTERNATIONAL KYM CARICATURE COMPETITION 2016: “REFUGEES”

Terms of Participation
1. THE COMPETITION IS OPEN TO ALL CARTOONISTS OF THE WORLD.
2. BOARD MEMBERS OF KIMSE YOK MU ASSOCIATION, MEMBERS OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE AND THEIR IMMEDIATE RELATIVES CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE COMPETITION.
3. IN THE CARICATURES SUBMITTED TO THE COMPETITION, THERE SHALL BE NO DISCRIMINATION OF RELIGION, LANGUAGE, OR RACE, AND THE CARICATURES SHALL BE IN CONFORMITY WITH PUBLIC DECENCY.
4. ANY TECHNIQUES CAN BE USED TO DRAW THE CARICATURES. THEY CAN BE BLACK AND WHITE OR COLORED.
5. THERE SHALL BE NO REMARKS IN CARICATURES. IF AN EXPLANATORY REMARK IS TO BE USED IT SHALL BE DEFINITELY IN ENGLISH.
6. EACH PARTICIPANT CAN SUBMIT UP TO THREE (3) WORKS.
7. THE FORMAT OF THE CARICATURES SHALL BE JPG OR JPEG, WITH 300 DPI RESOLUTION.
8. THE COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS SHALL MAKE THEIR APPLICATIONS ON THE COMPETITION’S FORMAL WEBSITE: WWW.KYMCARTOON.COM.
9. PARTICIPANTS WILL ENTER INTO THE COMPETITION BY UPLOADING THEIR CARICATURES TO WWW.KYMCARTOON.COM.
10. THE PROPOSALS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ISSUED BEFORE IN DIGITAL OR PRINTED AND IT SHOULDN’T HAVE GAIN AWARD IN A COMPETITION BEFORE.
11. FOLLOWING THE COMPETITION, IN CASE A CARICATURE IS DEEMED AS NOT CONFORMING TO THE SPECIFICATIONS, ITS ORDER AND AWARD ARE REVOKED. SUCH A COMPETITOR IS DEEMED AS HAVING VIOLATING THE RULES. SELECTION OF A NEW CARICATURE INSTEAD OF THE REVOKED ONE IS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE.
12. A PARTICIPANT CANNOT RECEIVE MORE THAN ONE AWARD.
13. THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION WILL BE ANNOUNCED TO THE CARICATURISTS WHO ARE GRANTED AWARDS AND TO THE MEDIA. IN ADDITION, THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON WWW.KYMCARTOON.COM AND WWW.KIMSEYOKMU.ORG.TR .
14. KIMSE YOK MU ASSOCIATION WILL PAY THE NECESSARY TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES OF THE CARICATURISTS, GRANTED WITH THE FIRST THREE (3) AWARDS IN THIS COMPETITION (WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS SPECIFICATION), FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE AWARD CEREMONY.
15. THE CARICATURES SENT TO THE COMPETITION MAY BE PUBLISHED AND REPRODUCED BY KIMSE YOK MU ASSOCIATION ON CARDS, POSTERS, BANNERS, ALBUMS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, CDS, AND SUCH, AND EXHIBITED. NO COPYRIGHT SHALL BE PAID FOR THESE PROCEDURES. HOWEVER, THE OWNER MAY BE NOTIFIED ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS.
16. CARICATURES MUST BE UPLOADED TO WWW.KYMCARTOON.COM BY FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2016 UNTIL 23:59 TURKISH LOCAL TIME.
17. A DIGITAL PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATE WILL BE SENT TO ALL PARTICIPANTS OF THE COMPETITION VIA EMAIL.
18. ALONGSIDE THE WORKS TO BE GRANTED AWARDS, THE SELECTION COMMITTEE WILL ALSO CHOOSE CARICATURES TO BE USED IN EXHIBITIONS AND ON ALBUMS.
19. THE SPECIFICATION OF THE COMPETITION CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.KYMCARTOON.COM.
20. THE PARTICIPANT ACCEPTS AND DECLARES IN ADVANCE THAT HE/SHE HAS THE POSSESSION OF THE CARICATURE(S) WITH WHICH HE/SHE PARTICIPATES IN THE COMPETITION BY FILLING OUT THE APPLICATION FORM AND TRANSFERS THE USAGE RIGHTS OF TOOLS FOR PROCESSING, REPRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, REPRESENTATION AND INDICATION, AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL TRANSFER PLUS FINANCIAL RIGHTS OF TRANSFER OF SUCH TO PUBLIC DEFINED IN ARTICLES 21 – 25 OF LAW NO. 5846 ON INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC WORKS INCLUDING TRANSFER OF SUCH TO THIRD PERSONS WITHOUT ANY LIMITATIONS REGARDING LOCATION, DURATION AND AMOUNT, EXCLUSIVELY TO KIMSE YOK MU ASSOCIATION, HE/SHE GIVES CONSENT THAT KIMSE YOK MU ASSOCIATION MAY USE THE SAID CARICATURE IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EXHIBITING, ARCHIVING OR PUBLISHING OF SUCH ON INTERNET AND OTHER MEDIUMS, HE/SHE DOES NOT HAVE ANY OWNERSHIP REGARDING THE FINANCIAL RIGHTS WHICH CONSIST OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF TRANSFER AND THEREFORE HE/SHE CANNOT TAKE ACTION AGAINST 3RD PERSONS REGARDING THE TRANSFERRED FINANCIAL RIGHTS.
21. IN MATTERS NOT STATED HEREIN THIS TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AND IN CASE OF INDECISION, THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE SHALL BE VALID.
22. ALL COMPETITORS ARE DEEMED TO ACCEPT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SPECIFICATION BY PARTICIPATING IN THE COMPETITION.
Competition Calendar
DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 TH, 2015
DATE OF FINAL APPLICATION: FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2016
DATE OF EVALUATION: FEBRUARY, 1ST – 7TH, 2016
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2016
AWARD CEREMONY AND EXHIBITION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2016
Awards
1ST PRIZE: $3,000
2ND PRIZE: $2,000
3RD PRIZE: $1,000
SPONSOR AWARDS.
CONTACT
Kİmse Yok Mu
MIMAR SINAN MAH. BASRA CAD. NO:24 SULTANBEYLI/İSTANBUL
Phone: 0850 877 5 777
INFO@KYM.ORG.TR .

THE JURY:

First published: 02.11.2015 23:00.
Jury members announced: 30.11.2015.

New issue Karika e-magazine no:75 published by HDK, Croatia

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The winners of the 9th Urziceni 2015 with themes Free & "Migration", Romania

The Winners of URZICENI 2015, Romania
or
THE FULL TRANSPARENCY (Again…)

1. From the 1576 works received at first, 578 selected were exhibited on the gallery Urziceni 2015. This first trial was performed by Julian PENA-Pai and Horia CRISAN.
2. We announced the jury composition, most of the jurors being cartoonists:
Roger Penwill, England, cartoonist, President of the Jury
Lubomir Mihailov, Bulgaria, cartoonist, jury member
Nicolae Petrache, Romania, The Festival Director, jury member
Constantin Ciosu, Romania, cartoonist, jury member
Constantin Pavel, Romania, cartoonist, jury member
Liviu Stanila, Romania, cartoonist, jury member
Horia Crisan, Romanian, cartoonist, jury member
They worked at home, no meetings or discussions among them, so they have made
their own choice and only by personal opinion.
3. Initially, each juror has the right to choose as many works he considered good, among the 578 from the public gallery. After putting together all those options, we obtained the first 162 pre selected for awards discussion.
4. From the 162 cartoons, each jury member has to select, in two rounds, his top 20 and top 15 drawings, independently, each work receiving 1 vote (1 point). And the result was a restraint gallery of 35 finalists .
5. Those finalists were presented to the public on BestCARTOONS.net and cartoonists of the world were invited to give their opinions about it, in a 3 days time, concerning possible fraud, plagiarism and/or similarities.
6. We have not received works with similarity problems.
7. The way of voting of each jury member is presented in this table.
8. The prize giving criterias are explained on the ''L'' column of our table of contents .
9. So, the Prizes of International Cartoon Contest Urziceni 2015 are:
GOLD PRIZE, 300 Euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Klaus Pitter, Austria (Top).
SILVER PRIZE, 200 Euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Cristian Mihailescu, Romania.
BRONZE PRIZE, 100 Euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: David Fuentes, Cuba.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Houmayoun Mahmoudi, Iran.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Mehdi Azizi, Iran.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Jovcho Savov, Bulgaria.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Bahman Jalali, Iran.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Sergey Semendyaev, Ukraine.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Zeinab Dadmohamadi, Iran.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: VEM - Victor Eugen Mihai, Romania.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Alireza Pakdel, Iran.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Alla & Chavdar Georgievi, Bulgaria.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Elrayah Ombaddi, Sudan.
EXCELLENCY, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net: Raed Khalil, Syria.
The Special Diploma, Special Honor Diploma: Igor Lukyanchenko, Ukraine.
The Special Prize of Urziceni Culture Center, Special Honor Diploma: Houmayoun Mahmoudi, England.
The Special Prize of CRISAN Publishing House, Special Honor Diploma: Marco D’Agostino, Italy.
So we tried, as you have seen on these pages, to make the things in TOTAL TRANSPARENCY. We think that we have succeeded and also we hope that our transparency example will be followed by a lot of juries in several cartoon contests around the world.
The Jury, Internet, 24 November 2015.
Rules, The Jury, Selected works (The Gallery Urziceni 2015), Works received, Preselected, Finalists, and Winners on bestcartoons.

Results of the International Illustration Contest 2015, Hungary, with theme: Reduce it!

2015.11.24.
Dear Applicants!
We are happy to inform you that the jury chose the
three best works and one special prize, as follows:

1. Marco D’Agostino - Untitled (Top)

2. Kelemen István – Untitled

3. Virág Fruzsina Éva – „REDUCE IT!”

Special Prize: Horst Hellmeier – “Flatten It!”

Thank you for the many valuable and high-quality works.
Regards,
STKH team.
Source: http://www.stkh.hu/friss-informacio/.

International Cartoon Competition 2015, China: Economize; Practice Thrift; Law; Justice

2015 International Cartoon Competition

2015-10-31
Competition Rules
1. Schedule:
Original submission deadline on October 30, 2015
Postponed to ---- November 20, 2015 (the new deadline )
2. Increase the theme: “Economize; Practice Thrift; Law; Justice”
3. Email: mhds1@sohu.com
Only accept the digital works.
4. Prize
First Prize [1 competitor]: 900 USD and certification
Second Prize [2 competitors]: 600 USD and certification
Third Prize [3 competitors]: 300 USD and certification
Excellent Prize [50 competitors]: souvenir and certification
Top-over-List Prize: souvenir.
5. The Jury
1) The jury is made up of famous cartoonists, university professors and experts.
2) The jury will maintain an objective, fair and just principles of the entries submitted for judging and voting, and recommended the winners.
3) The winner will be announced in December 2015
6. Copyrights
1) The organizers reserve the right to refuse entries they consider morally, politically or religiously offensive, as well as work that is considered in violation of the acknowledged moral standards.
2) If a contribution has any intellectual property rights or copyright dispute, the organizer holds the right to revoke the participant’s eligibility to participate in the competition. Participants are solely liable for any consequence that may arise from submitting work to the competition. The participant must be the owner of all rights on the work submitted and it is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that his or her contributions to the competition do not generate any copyright or other intellectual property rights dispute.
3) News Cartoon reserves the right to use the contributions for presentation and media use.
4) Organizers and participants share the copyrights of the contributions; the organizers of the event have the right to display and distribute the works of the contestants.
5) By submitting a contribution to the competition, the participant is agreeing to accept all of the rules.
Responsible editor：redman.
Source: http://www.redmanart.com/en/bencandy.php?fid=6&id=612.

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