SECOND INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST, SOFIA 2011Sofia Municipality,
Cartoon Section at the Union of Bulgarian Artists,
THEME: The Artist in Art
The art of music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, literature, theatre, photography, and cinema, seen through the art of laughter: the cartoon art.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:
Participants may send maximum 3 entries in a digital format (JPG) via the internet to this e-mail address: bgcartoon@abv.bg
The works will be shown in the open air on enlarged copies (nearly the size of a billboard). In view of the exhibition’s high quality, the cartoons must be A4 / A3 size, JPG format scanned at 300 dpi.
The artists should mention in their email: name, surname, address, e-mail address, title or number of each entry. The cartoons submitted for the competition must not have been awarded in other contests.
DEADLINE: September 1, 2011
A jury will make a selection of 120-150 entries and their authors will be considered for prizes and included in the exhibition catalogue.
PRIZES:
First prize: 1000 EUR
Second prize: 500 EUR
Third prize: 300 EUR
5 Special prizes.
The prize winners will be asked to send the originals of the awarded works.
TECHNIQUE:
The technique is free, black and white or colour; the entries may bear no captions. Digitally created artworks will also be accepted.
Photographs or copies of the original works will not be accepted.
EXHIBITION:
The exhibition is to be opened on November 10, 2011. Enlarged copies of the works will be shown in the open air in Sofia.
CATALOGUE:
The entries selected for the exhibition, as well as the awarded works will be included in the catalogue. Every participant in the exhibition will receive a copy of the catalogue.
RESULTS:
The results of the exhibition and the accompanying events will be announced on the website of the Bulgarian cartoonists: http://www.cartoonbg.com/
COPYRIGHTS:
By virtue of their participation artists agree to allow the organizers to print their works for promotional purposes.
Source: cartoonbg
Received the other day this "small is beautiful" 50 color pages catalog of size 15.8x16.2 cm. It comes from Unio De Federacions Esportives De Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Remember the results published on this blog: 
In the catalog are the awarded and selected works by 86 cartoonists + awarded and selected works that participated in the 1st International Sports Art Competition.
Among the cartoonists presented in the catalog are Erdoğan Başol, Oğuz Gürel, Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu, and Tan Oral from Turkey.
This catalog, prepared by Huseyin Cakmak, is published in Ankara, Turkey, in February 2011.
They had this catalog published by combining the productivity potential of the members of the Cyprus Turkish Cartoonists Association and the ministerial contribution to culture and art associations.
In the catalog are the works by Arif A. Albayrak, Bertan Soyer, Celal Deniz, Cemal Tunceri, Devran Öztunç, Dolgun Dalgıçoğlu, Ezcan Özsoy, Hüseyin Çakmak, M. Serhan Gazioğlu, Mehmet Ulubatlı, Musa Kayra, Mustafa C. Azizoğlu, Mustafa Tozakı, Serkan Sürek, Sevcan Çerkez, and Zafer Tutkulu with their bios in both Turkish and English languages.
The catalog has 72 color pages and is of size 20x21.5 cm.
(All the works are copyright except reports and reviews).
