22.10.20

Golden Olive Humor Service Awards 2020

19th Olive Festival International Olive Humor Festival
Organizing Committee Members Announced the Results

2020 GOLDEN OLIVE HUMOR SERVICE AWARDS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED

(October 22, 2020 - Girne) Under the honorary chairmanship of Girne Mayor Nidai Güngördü, in line with the decision taken by the members of the International Olive Humor Festival Organizing Committee, consisting of the representatives of Kyrenia Municipality and the Cyprus Turkish Cartoonists Association, Cyprus Turkish Humor Culture and World Cartoon Art ' The winners of the traditional “Golden Olive Humor Service Awards” given to people who have made significant contributions to the company in the past or today were determined. 
At the evaluation meeting held by the members of the International Olive Humor Festival Organizing Committee consisting of M. Serhan Gazioğlu, Derman Atik, Musa Kayra, Selen Selışık and Hüseyin Çakmak, under the honorary chairmanship of Kyrenia Mayor Nidai Güngördü, "2020 Golden Olive Humor Service Awards" The winners were determined as follows: 
Utku Karsu
(For His Contributions to Turkish Cypriot Cartoon Art),
Mahmut İslamoğlu
(For His Work on Humorous Poetry - Stoning and Cypriot Humor Culture);
Cemal Tunceri
(For His Contributions to Turkish Cypriot Cartoon Art);
Biler Demircioğlu
(Due to His Works in Humorous Theater and Humorous Play - Parody);
Alberto Morales Ajubel
(For His Contributions to Cuban, Spanish, and World Cartoon Art);
Semih Poroy
(For His Contributions to Turkish and World Cartoon Art).
The 2020 Golden Olive Humor Service Awards will be awarded on a date to be announced later. The awards to be presented to the artists will consist of “Golden Olive Sculpture” and “Award Diploma”. 

INTERNATIONAL OLIVE HUMOR FESTIVAL
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

20.10.20

Semarang International Cartoon Festival 2020, Indonesia

SICARFEST 2020
Semarang International Cartoon Festival 2020, Indonesia
SICARFEST #1 2020 (Semarang International Cartoon Festival) was held in 2020 by the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Art, Universitas Negeri Semarang (Unnes). The theme of this exhibition is Educational Cartoons for COVID-19. All artists from all over the world are expected to contribute to educating the society about the importance of maintaining health by adhering to the existing health protocol regulations during COVID-19. 
This theme was determined by the concern of the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Art, UNNES about the spread of COVID-19. Inevitably education will provide understanding to students to be more aware of implementing healt protocols. Through education, students will also mentally and physically be trained to be more immune to COVID-19, so online education must still be done. For this spirit, the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, UNNES held the SICARTFEST #1 2020 event to educate and entertain the society through cartoon exhibitions. 
Terms of Work 
Works at the SICARTFEST exhibition must meet the criteria: 
* Explain the response to COVID-19 from a comedy and educational perspective on COVID-19. 
* Each participant can send only 1 cartoon. Write a description of the work: a) full name, b) title, c) media, d) technique, e)email address, and f) country. 
Write the concept of the work from the idea of creation (the beginning of finding ideas). 
* Sent cartoon must be 300 DPI resolution, JPG format. 
Timeline 
This exhibition will be enlivened with several parallel events: 
01-12 November 2020: submission artwork 
09 November 2020: Creative Cartoon Waorkshop 
16 November 2020: Opening Cartoon Exhibition 
20 November 2020: Special award funniest, insightful & actual 20 favorites artist 
22 November 2020: Indonesian Cartoon Talk (Bincang Kartunis Indonesia CAKARIN) 
Further Information: 
Contact person: 
+6285299795065 (Ichsan) 
+6285225236536 (Nia) 
+6281390111765 (Athian) 
Total Prize: IDR 35.000.000 
Source: goldpencil.

19.10.20

Similarity: Fernandes - Gumus - Takjoo

Afonso Carlos Fernandes DICACO 2000.

Musa Gümüş 2. KalDer 2015 2nd Prize.

Results of the 25th International Exhibition of Cartoons, Zagreb 2020, Croatia

25th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION
ZAGREB 2020
Theme: Cuisine
The 25th International Exhibition of Cartoons ZAGREB 2020
has seen the arrival of 1.061 works of 439 authors from 60 countries.

THE WINNERS

FIRST PRIZE
MOJMIR MIHATOV, Croatia (Top)
SECOND PRIZE
GRIGORI KATZ, Israel
THIRD PRIZE
JAVAD TAKJOO, Iran.

SPECIAL MENTIONS
FRANO CEBALO
, Croatia
JUAN G. BENAVIDES FORMAS
, Spain
VALENTIN GEORGIEV
, Bulgaria
OLEG GUTSOL
, Ukraine
PAL LEPHAFT
, Serbia.

17.10.20

Results of the 9. International Cartoon Contest, Kyrenia 2020, Cyprus

MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA
CYPRIOT – TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION
9. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2020
(KYRENIA – CYPRUS)

FINAL RESULTS

JURY MEMBERS:
Nidai Güngördü (Cyprus), M. Serhan Gazioğlu (Cyprus), Derman Atik (Cyprus), Musa Kayra (Cyprus), Selen Selışık (Cyprus), Hüseyin Çakmak (Cyprus).

Evaluation Date:
21 – 25 September 2020 Kyrenia Municipality Art Gallery (Kyrenia – Cyprus) 
Country:
62
Participant:
289
Work:
887

PRIZES 
Grand Prize (Free Section): 1.500 Euro + Golden Olive Statue + Diploma 
Ali Rastroo (Iran) (Top)

OLIVE SECTION 
First Prize: 750 Euro + Golden Olive Statue 
+ Kyrenia Municipality Prize (Diploma) 
Ayhan Alkan (United Kingdom) (Above)
Second Prize: Silver Olive Statue 
+ Cyprus Turkish Cartoonists Association Prize (Diploma) 
Elahe Khoraman (Iran) 
Third Prize: Bronze Olive Statue 
+ Olive Festival Prize (Diploma) 
Zhaleh Yoosefinezhad (Iran).
 
FREE SECTION 
First Prize: 750 Euro + Golden Olive Statue 
+ Kyrenia Mayor Special Prize (Diploma) 
Mustafa Tozakı (Cyprus) 
Second Prize: Silver Olive Statue 
+ Olive Humor Festival Prize (Diploma) 
Damir Novak (Croatia) 
Third Prize: Bronze Olive Statue 
+ Ramiz Gökçe Special Prize (Diploma) 
Grigoris Georgiou (Greece).
 
OLIVE SECTION – FINALIST PRIZES 
A. K. M. Firoz (Bangladesh) 
Abbas Kameli (Iran) 
Abbas Naaseri (Iran) 
Ahmed Khabali (Morroco) 
Amir Beigzadeh Nonakaran (Iran) 
Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu (Turkey) 
Bapak Sudarmanto (Indonesia) 
Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu (Romania) 
Chiorean Cornel – Marin (Romania) 

Damir Novak (Croatia) 
Daniel Eduardo Varela (Argentina) 
Deniz İlker Kuruoğlu (Turkey) 
Duru Çiftçi (Turkey) 
Firuz Kutal (Norway) 
Gennady Nazarov (Ukraina) 
Gerald Peigneux (France) 
Guibao Gai (China) 
Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu (Turkey) 
Hasan Ceylan (Turkey) 
Hasan Omidi (Iran) 
Husan Sodiqov (Uzbekistan) 

Konstantin Kazanchev (Ukraina) 
Lee Hyun Sik (South Korea) 
Leon De Borger (Belgium) 
Louis Pol (Australia) 
Malatesh M. Garadimani (India) 
Marco D'Agostino (Italia) 
Marina Gorelova (Belarus) 
Mbah Darsono (Indonesia) 
Mehmet Zeber (Turkey) 
Muammer Kotbaş (Turkey) 
Musa Keklik (Turkey) 
Mustafa Tozakı (Cyprus) 

Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraina) 
Raul Fernando Zuleta (Colombia) 
Sanaz Khadem Yahyavi (Iran) 
Seyyed Sajad Alizadeh (Iran) 
Shirin Gholipour (Iran) 
Slobodan Butir (Croatia) 
Sohrab Kheiri (Iran) 
Spiro Radulovic (Serbia) 
Steffen Jahsnowski (Germany) 
Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria) 
Turan Asan (Turkey) 

Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria) 
Valeri Tarasenko (Russia) 
Vishal V. Shenoy (India) 
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraina) 
Wesam Khalil (Egypt) 
Zoran Josic (Slovenia).
 
FREE SECTION – FINALIST PRIZES 
Akbar Rouhy (Iran) 
Ali Mosavi (Afghanistan) 
Anas El Lakkis (Lebanon) 
Arif Albayrak (Cyprus) 
Artur Juhász (Hungary) 
Boris Erenburg (Israel) 
Daniel Eduardo Varela (Argentina) 
Darko Drljevic (Montenegro) 
David Hafez (USA) 
Dolgun Dalgıçoğlu (Cyprus) 

Ehsan Cheraghi Iranshahi (Iran) 
Ester Lauringson (Estonia) 
Fahriye Çıtaklı (Turkey) 
Farid Amir Sardari (Iran) 
Hamed Mortazavi Alavi (Iran) 
Hasan Ali Ismail (Syria) 
Hayrettin Oturgan (Turkey) 
Hossein Pourteymourin (Iran) 
Jamal Dana (Iran) 
Kemal Özyurt (Turkey) 

Lan Bo (China) 
Leily Salimi (Iran) 
Liang Yu (China) 
Lijie Yang (China) 
Liviu Stanila (Romania) 
Mahdieh Sabbaghkar (Iran) 
Manoj Chopra (India) 
Mohammad Raei (Iran) 
Mohsen Ebrahimi (Iran) 
Muhammad Nasir (Indonesia) 
Musa Keklik (Turkey) 
Myagmar Amarkhuu (Mongolia) 

Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraine) 
Parisa Norollahi (Iran) 
Peter Niuwendijik (Holland) 
Rahim B. Asghari (Iran) 
Razie Darzi (Iran) 
Roberto Castillo Rodriguez (Cuba) 
Ronaldo Cunha Dias (Brazil) 
Saeed Sadeghi (Iran) 
Samane Karimi (Iran) 
Shavkat Muzaffar (Uzbekistan) 
Shirin Gholipour (Iran) 
Sohrab Kheiri (Iran) 
Soltan Soltanli (Azerbaijan) 
Spiro Radulovic (Serbia) 

Viktor Holub (Ukraina) 
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraina) 
Wesam Khalil (Egypt) 
Yalda Hasheminezhad (Iran).
 
(*) The award ceremony will not be held this year due to Covid-19. If the conditions are suitable, the award ceremony will be held in October 2021. 

STEERING COMMITTEE

29.9.20

Results of the 17. International Comics and Cartoon Festival, Prizren 2020, Kosovo

Results of the 17. International Comics and Cartoon Festival, Prizren 2020, Kosovo.
1146 Participations from 71 States.
WINNERS:
1 . First Place Golden "Stone Bridge" Award – Agus Widodo - Indonesia, 
2 . Second Place Silver "Stone Bridge"Award – Chen Anyong – China, 
3 . Third Place Bronze "Stone Bridge" Award – Antonio Santos – Portugal, 
4 . Special Award from "XHENNETCOMICS" Association - Edi Dharma – Indonesia, 
5 . Special Award – Nima Shahmiri – Iran, 
6 . Special Award – Czeslaw Prezezak – Poland, 
7 . Special Award – Muammer Kotbas – Turkey, 
8 . Special Award – Marco D”Agostino – Italy, 
9 . Juri Award – Tsocho Peev – Bulgaria, 
10 . Juri Award – Damir Novak – Croatia, 
11 . Honorable Mention – Mehmet Atamer – Turkey, 
12 . Honorable Mention – Nikola Listes – Croatia, 
13 . Honorable Mention – Musa Kayra – Cyprus, 
14 . Honorable Mention – Shavakat Muzaffar – Uzbekistan, 
15 . Honorable Mention – Liviu Stanila – Romania, 
16 . Honorable Mention – Aliyeh Mazaheri – Iran, 
17 . Honorable Mention – Jitet Kustana – Indonesia, 
18 . Honorable Mention – Aleksei Kivokustev – Russia, 
19 . Honorable Mention – Madhu Krishnan – India, 
20 . Dmytro Scazhenyk – Ukraine. 
We would like to thank all the participants for their strong support, 
We feel proud, 
Thank you! 
Executive Director: 
Gani SUNDURI.
See all winning cartoons on xhennetcomics.

26.9.20

9. International Cartoon Contest, Kyrenia 2020 (Non – Definitive List of Prizes)

9. International Cartoon Contest 2020 (Non – Definitive List of Prizes)
MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA
CYPRIOT – TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION
9. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2020 (KYRENIA – CYPRUS)
JURY MEMBERS:
Nidai Güngördü (Cyprus), M. Serhan Gazioğlu (Cyprus), Derman Atik (Cyprus), Musa Kayra (Cyprus), Selen Selışık (Cyprus), Hüseyin Çakmak (Cyprus).
Evaluation Date:
21 – 25 September 2020 Kyrenia Municipality Art Gallery (Kyrenia – Cyprus)
Countries:
62
Participants:
289
Works:
887
Dear cartoonist and cartoonists associations officials:
The cartoons which are selected by the contest jury just mailed to your address. If you know any similar cartoons, please send (Until: September 29, 2020 Night time (Cyprus) 24.00) by e – mail up to the following address: 
If Plagiarism detected and/or any previously award winning material submitted, submissions will be canceled and the next eligible entry will be considered for the prize.
In addition to the “Grand Prize”, 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be given seperately for “Olive” and “Free” titles, as well as 50 cartoons in each section will be given “Finalist Prizes”.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*
NON – DEFINITIVE LIST OF PRIZES
(FREE SECTION)
*
Please click here for the OLIVE SECTION (NON-DEFINITIVE) PRIZES.