2nd Zikison 2007

2nd Competition of a Caricature and a Short Comic Strip 2007
http://www.artija.net/ & The SRZ (SRŽ) – The Satirical Manufactory "Žikišon" (Satirična Radionica Žikišon) are announcing in the categories, the themes:
1. THE PORTRAIT CARICATURE "ŽIKIŠON" WITHOUT WORDS. How do caricaturists imagine "Žikišon" and his life time?
2. THE CARICATURE WITHOUT WORDS – FREE FORM.
For both of categories you can send up to 3 works on A/4 size of paper, up to 200 KB by E-mail, any technique is allowed.
3. THE SHORT ALTERNATIVE COMIC STRIP – FREE FORM. A board needs to content up to 6 squares, A/3 format, up to 400 KB by E-mail, any technique is allowed, up to 3 boards in a work or 3 boards of a single strip.
The competition will be opened and free for all of the professionals and amateurs, for affirmed and unknown authors from 7 to 77 years of age, for all people on this planet but in the case if someone appears from other planet then we will become the first interplanetar competition.
AWARDS: The first award in each of three categories - a presentation on a particular page on the site http://www.artija.net/ and kiks (Caricature and Short Cartoon).
Works can be sent by e-mail zikison@gmail.com & mazospn@gmail.com with author’s short biography and photography. All of received works will not be returned to the senders. The organization of this project keeps the right for using and publishing of received works for the organization’s needs.
The competition will be opened to November 1, 2007.
ZIKISON (1885 - 1950) was a satirist, a caricaturist, an editor, a publisher, and a printer. Between two wars in Serbia he was an actuator, a co–author editor of many newspapers for humor and satire. He has been suffering and imprisoned by Communist Regime in 1949. Soon after that torture and seizing his property, he died in 1950.
WEB: http://www.artija.net/competitions.html

First Naji al Ali results

First International Cartoon Contest Naji Al Ali, Syria 2007 has concluded.
There were 207 authors from 29 countries, who sent 566 artworks to the first edition.
THE JURY
Raed Khalil / Syria: Cartoonist
Walid Naif / Iraq: Cartoonist
Khaldon Gharaibeh / Jordan: Cartoonist
Hani Abbas /Palestine: Cartoonist
Abd Alkader Abdalli / Syria: Critic reviewer
WINNERS:
Cartoon:
Golden Prize: Rumen Dragostinov / Bulgaria (see right)
Silver Prize: Vahid Alimohammadi / Iran (see above)
Bronze Prize : Masoumeh Sadat Mousavi / Iran
Caricature:Golden Prize: Marcio Leite Da Silva / Brazil
Silver Prize: Antonio Ahado Laorenzo / Spain
Bronze Prize: Hasan Ghassemi / Iran (see right below)
Special Prize:David Baldinger / Usa
Chen An Yong / China
Homayoun Abdolrahimi / Iran
Huang Bin / China
Jwan Alzarir / Syria
Ali Javaher / Iran
Erico Junqueira Ayres / Brazil
Success Award:
Athanassios Efthimiadis / Greece, Bayram Hajizadeh / Azerbaijan, Ben Heine / Belgium, Douha Alkhatib /Syria, Erdoğan Başol /Turkey, Ergül Aktaş /Turkey, Louis Pol /Australia, Makhmud Eshonkulov / Uzbekistan, Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei / Iran, Bedaiwi / Egypt, Mehdi Azizi / Iran, Shahid Atiqullah / Afghanistan, Mohammad Saleh Razm Hosseini / Iran, Naji ben Naji / Morocco, Osama Salti / Syria, Phu Nguyen / Vietnam, Rabia Alaridi / Syria, Saed Salloum / Syria, Safaie Masoumeh / Iran, Samandariin Tsogtbayar (SATSO) / Mongolia, Shahin Hooshmand / Iran, Valentin Georgiev /Bulgaria, Ali Shabani / Iran, Atmaja Septa Miyosa (SEPTA) / Indonesia, Lojain Nahar / Syria, Michal Graczyk / Poland, Saeed Sadeghi / Iran, Serdar Günbilen / Turkey, Shahrokh Heidari / Iran.
Participating Countries:
Afghanistan – Australia – Azerbaijan – Belgium – Brazil – Bulgaria – China – Egypt – France - Great Britain – Greece – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Jordan –– Kuwait –Lebanon – Mongolia – Morocco – Palestine – Poland – Romania – Spain – Syria – Turkey – Uzbekistan – USA – Vietnam – Yemen.

WEB: http://www.syriacartoon.com/

CARTUNION 2007

The Second International Cartoon Contest - CARTUNION 2007
State and Religion
Where does one begin and the other end?
A century ago the French decided that question and separated legislatively these two important institutions. This decision became a universal standard and entered the constitutions of many nations. It was believed that the harmony was established and all the interested parties were satisfied. Unfortunately, in the constantly-changing world one or the other side tries to undermine that balance. We see how the ruling elites oppress the believers and disallow any sign of religious worship. Or vice-versa, the ruling group attempting to fill their own ideological vacuum begins to play with religion. There are nations where religious leaders seeking the highest reaches of political office forget about their flock.
The conflict between religious and secular parts of the community flares up often and Russian political scene is no exception to this tendency. The rising clout of Eastern Orthodoxy doesn’t limit itself to caring about worshipper’s souls, and the populist government does everything to encourage the influence of the church on the citizenry. In situations where non-commercial organizations lose their basic rights, the church is provided with various financial and political privileges. Things have gotten so bad that 10 Russian academics sent a letter to the President asking him to safeguard the secular character of the nation.
Wherever there is a conflict, a cartoonist will always find something to write about. We invite international cartoonists to tell us their thoughts on each of the questions discussed.
Contest rules and regulations
1. The theme of the contest is “State and Religion."
2. Everybody can participate in this contest. The number of entries is unlimited.
3. The best works will be exhibited at the CARTUNION site: http://www.cartoon-expo.com/ .
4. Two artists will be awarded with "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker" (on CD and in print) that sells for $60.
5. Format: JPG or GIF. 100 dpi. The largest side of the image should be 650 pixels.
6. The works have to be sent to the following address: cartoongallery@gmail.com Please include your name, country, and e-mail address.
7. Deadline for submissions: November 1st 2007.
8. The competent jury will immediately consider all entries. The results will be announced on November 15th.
9. The authors of the selected works will be asked to send the high-resolution copies.
10. The organizers have the non-exclusive rights to use all the works to promote the exhibition (publications, fliers, etc), without payment to the artist.
11. All copyrights belong to the author.
12. Artists submitting cartoons will automatically agree to abide by the above rules.
The International Cartoonists' Forum CARTUNION.
Contact: Andrey Feldshteyn, cartoongallery@gmail.com

Supporting Street Children

The First International Cartoonet (by email) Exhibition: Supporting Street Children
The Iranian House of Cartoon invites cartoonists from all over the World to participate in this Exhibition.
Regulation:
1-The contest is open to all cartoonists.
2- Theme:
1-Street Children
2-Child Laborers
3) THE PRIZES: Honorable Mention (50)
4) A maximum of 5 works in each section can be submitted by the participating cartoonists.
5) The dimensions of works should be 1200Pixel Jpg Format (High)
6) Comic strip must be presented in one page and without any words.
7) Only Digital cartoons are accepted works achieved by digital tools will be accepted as originals as long as they are hand signed by the author, accompanied by the digital file of the artwork in Tiff format with 300 Dpi resolution on a CD. No photocopies or photographs will be accepted.
9) Name, surname, address and short bio of the participants should be sent by email.
10) The choice of technique is free, color or B&W and etc.
11) The deadline : 22 Jan. 2008
12) The organizers hold all the rights to publish the cartoons submitted to the contest and use them in any from.
13) All participants are considered to accept all the conditions.
14) All works must be sending to the following email address: info@irancartoon.com
Tel: (+98 21) 22868600-22867080
Fax: (+98 21)22846928

2nd Celje Cartoon Contest

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CONTEST
TOPIC: shopping, price, sales, payment, bargain, money, bar code, action and shop.
Entries must be A3 (297 x 420 mm) of size.
Each applicant may submit an unlimited number of entries.
The drawings must not contain any text.
On the back side of each entry there must be full name and address of the applicant.
Applicants should enclose a short autobiography and a self-portrait or a photo.
Deadline for submitting the entries is September 28th, 2007.
ADDRESS to send entries to: CARTOON-SLO, p.p. 181, 3001 CELJE, SLOVENIJA-EU.
Entries will be examined in October.
Awarded contestants will be informed about the Jury's Decision.
Participants whose entries are nominated for the catalogue are entitled to a free copy.
Entrants surrender to the organizer the right to keep entries and shall not have them returned.
Entrants surrender to the organizer the right to publish entries in cataloque or any other form of publication.
Entrants are expected to familiarise themselfs with above stated regulations and to be in agreement with the specifications and conditions of participation.
MAILED ENTRIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE PACKED FLAT.
We accept only the ORIGINALS.
Copies of the works will be dissqualified.
WEB: http://www.cartoon-slo.eu/

EcoCartoons 2007 - Peru

Third International Contest of Ecological Graphic Humor - EcoCartoons 2007
The «Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru» and the «Grupo de Apoyo al Sector Rural» convoke the Third International Contest of Ecological Graphic Humor «ECOCARTOONS 2007». Caricaturists, graphic artists in general, amateurs and professionals are called together, without age limit from all over the world.
• The principal theme of the contest is: WATER.
• The works must reflect ideas related to the ecology with humor or satire.
• Evaluation is based on how well representation of humor and satire is esthetically reached, language can be direct as well as symbolic.
• The technique is totally free.
• Each participant can present an unlimited unpublished works in format A4 (21 x 30 cm).
• The works must not contain text elements (works made by computer, laser printings or photocopies will not be accepted). Information about the name of the author, local address, E-mail or Web address and country of origin must be indicated in the reverse of the sheet.
• Each participant confirms with the delivery of his works the acceptance of the bases and that they will be part of the exhibition the day of the awards ceremony, as well as part of itinerary exhibitions in cities of Peru and in different countries. All works will represent their country of origin in the museum of graphic ecological humor of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.
• The jury will be integrated with members of sponsors institutions and enterprises, event organizers and the best representative personalities of graphic humor in our country. The decisions of the jury are unappealable.
• Deadline is on Sep 30. Works awarded will be announced on Oct 30, in an official ceremony at the Cultural Center of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. The organizers of the event will inform the winner by telephone, e-mail or through the embassies or consulates.
• The post delivery must be in flat packages. Do not roll or bend your works. They must not be put in frames or glass. The organizers do not assume responsibility for damage of the delivery. The delivery costs will be afforded by the sender. Local post register on the stamp will be considered in the deadline. After that date, works will be refused.
These works will be part of the cultural patrimony of GRUPO. They can be used for exhibitions or be shown when we consider it pertinent. Also, the works can be reproduced in a total or partial way in diverse publications. GRUPO ensures that all the works used for this ends will mention the author's name and it's procedence in a visible place.
• Prizes:
First Prize: US$ 1,000.00 and honour diploma.
Second Prize: US$ 500.00 and honour diploma.
Third Prize: US$ 200.00 and honour diploma.
• Works must be sent to the following address:
GRUPO PUCP - ECOCARTOONS Av. Universitaria 1801 - San Miguel LIMA 32 - PERU
ecocartoons@pucp.edu.pe
ecocartoons@terra.com
Regulations at: http://www.pucp.edu.pe/grupo/ecocartoons/2007.html