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To: InterCartoons@yahoogroups.com
From: "tawan chuntra" tchuntra@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [InterCartoons] information
--- tawan chuntra tchuntra@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Sir:
My name is TAWAN CHUNTRA, a cartoonist from THAILAND.
In January 2007 I send my cartoon for cartoon contest FAX FOR PEACE, http://www.faxforpeace.it by e-mail.
I win an award but now I do not get any information or an award prize from that contest. I wrote and sent the post to the organization, but it's not any respond. I know many cartoon contests have the manner like FAX FOR PEACE cartoon contest but I hope it's the last time that happening to cartoonist.
Please post my information to the cartoonist e-mail of FAX FOR PEACE: istsuperiore@faxforpeace.it
Best regards
TAWAN CHUNTRA

Zlatkovsky exhibit in Turkey

Zlatkovsky exhibition in Turkey
Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art is displaying Mihail M. Zlatkovsky's works in Turkey. There are 60 cartoons in the exhibition about problems in human life by the world-famous Russian artist. They will be on exhibition between Sep 26 - Oct 22, 2007 at: Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Karikatürleri Müzesi, Akcami Mh. Malhatun Sk. No: 6 Odunpazarı ESKİŞEHİR / TURKEY.
The opening ceremony is at 17.30 on Wednesday, Sep 26, 2007.
MIKHAIL M. ZLATKOVSKY
Was born in August, 21, 1944 at village of St.Christopher, Tambov region in a family of The Red Army officers. The family legend says that Russian branch of Zlatkovskies is from a Polish nobility traced back to the end of XII century. After suppression of Kostyushko' rebellion, (end of XVIII century), the great-great-grandfather of the artist was banished to Russia. All men in the family were a sort of priests: before 1831 - Catholics, after - orthodox priests in the Oryol province, European part of Russia.
The grandfather, Kozma Mikolajevitch, did not accept "Sergijanski's heresy" and served secretly as a priest of Russian Cave Church for fourteen years. He was executed on November 26, 1937. The father, Michael Kuzmitch, a colonel, a professor, and a doctor of the military sciences. Being 7 years old, he has officially refused from his father, then from his son at his 72.
Mikhail Zlatkovsky was graduated from Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute (Nuclear Physics Dept.) in 1967 with major in Accelerators of Elementary Particles and worked as the physicist-researcher for 5 years.
In 1971 throw out physics and became a free-lance artist.
Worked as the Chief-Art-Designer in several leading newspapers and magazines. In 1993-98 used to live in the USA, where was Chief-art director of newspapers.
Now the Editorial Cartoonist of the daily all-state newspaper "New Messages ".
Primary activity: political cartoons and caricature, books and magazines illustration, posters.
The basic direction in creativity: "sense art, "problems graphics".
Art-research scientist of the State Institute of Art, where has prepared the thesis for a doctor's degree "The History of the Russian Cartoon", and wrote text books "The Theory and Practice of Images Creation".
During 1999-2001 term took the professor position at The Moscow State University, department of the art journalism.
Secretary of the Russian Journalists Union
During 18 years (till 2001) his collection of the art awards was the biggest all over the world – 211 prizes of the international and national competitions of cartoons, animations, posters, designs, illustrations, among its there are about 50 Grand prizes - "Gold Esope " of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Grand prix of Montreal, Canada, "the Gold Hat " of Knokke-Hiest, Belgium, (twice), the First prize in Istanbul, Turkey, Grand prix in South Korea, "Gold Date" of Bordighery, Italy, "the Gold Egg" of Kroushoutem, Belgium, "the Gold Pencil "of "Satyricon", Poland, and others.
The most important art achievements are:
In 1992, was awarded as "The Best Artist in a Cartooning" after international Peers interrogation,
“Gold pen”- the highest Russian professional artist award. 2003,
“The Best artist of the world”,- Grand prix of the XVI Amadora International cartoons festival, Portugal, 2005.
Personal exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy (twice), in Malta, Poland (twice), Russia, Switzerland, USA.
Founder and the President of the Russian Union of Cartoonists.
President of The Russian division of FECO
WEB: http://www.krk.anadolu.edu.tr/karw/muze/sergiler_exhibitions.htm
Zlatkovsky's personal website: http://www.zlatkovsky.ru/movie.lhtm

7th Barakaldo

Conditions
The city of Barakaldo organizes the "New technologies" seventh international contest of pictorial humour and flash humour.
The cartoonists will send a work of illustrated humour or FLASH in relation with new technologies which have a considerable impact on the day to day life (i.e. internet, biology, space, telecommunications, medicine, etc...). The idea is to help citizens to think about the new grounds for scientific progress.
Non-animated category 1st Prize 2006: Marcin Bondarowicz / Poland (see right above)
1. Applicants:
The competition is open to everyone, especially with no regard of age. Each applicant can present a maximum of three piece of work. The works of the authors who won the Hermes prize the year before will not be taken in consideration.
2. Form and size:
The scenes and characters will have to be originals and of proper creation. The works can be drawn in black and white or in colour. They can be either static or with motion. As far as the motion piece of work is concerned, it must not weight more than one mega. The works will have a length of one page that will not exceed 800 x 600 pixels, with a minimum resolution of 72 pixels per inch.
The authors must not include their name or any other information about themselves on the works. Otherwise, they will be eliminated from the contest.
3. Languages:
Only two languages can be used: spanish and basque. Nonetheless the panel will take into consideration works of pictorial interest without text, proceeding from artists of places where these languages are not used.
Non-animated category 2nd Prize 2006: Pawel Kuczynski / Poland (see right)
4. Presentation:
Applicants will send a e-mail with their names, surnames, address, date of birth, passport number, telephone number. They will send this e-mail with the file of the picture in format JPEG, GIF, GIF animated or FLASH.
5. Place and deadline of the application:
The piece of work with the reference of the artist will be sent exclusively through e-mail, to the following address: hermesbarakalmailto:hermesbarakaldo@barakaldo.org before 2007 October 8th.
Non-animated category 3rd Prize 2006: Rumen Dragostinov / Bulgaria (see right below)
6. Virtual showing: The city contemplates realizing a public diffusion of the works presented and lately selected by the panel.
7. Awards: The "Hermes de Barakaldo" prize is divided in two categories:
Animated category:
1st prize: 1.200 euros
2nd prize: 800 euros
3rd prize: 600 euros
Non-animated category:
1st prize: 1.200 euros
2nd prize: 800 euros
3rd prize: 600 euros
8. Panel: A qualified panel of judges will pick out the best works. Prizes will be handed on the first week of December 2007, in Barakaldo. The city leaves to the panel the possibility to declare no winners, according to quality criteria.
9. Other determination:
Taking part to the competition implies the acceptance of the conditions overhead.
WEB: http://www.barakaldo.org/barakaldo/html/eventos/hermes/index.html
See more prize-winners at: http://www.barakaldo.org/barakaldo/html/eventos/hermes/premios/index.html

Registration extended for the Amazon

1st International Saloon of Humor for the Amazon Forest / Brazil
1. Dates:
Registration extended: until September 26th.
Result of the previous selection: September 2007
Result of the selection by the International jury and the releasing of the final result: October 2007
2. Participation: All cartoonists, professional or not, are allowed to submit original works, since they have not been awarded in other saloons up to the deadline for registrations. Each author may submit up to 3 (three) works developed under any technique, including those ones done by computers. For each work sent, one entry form must be filled up. The entry forms are available at http://www.brazilcartoon.com/
3. Theme: Humor for the Amazon Forest
4. Sending the works: All works, including those ones drawn by hand, must be sent by e-mail, resolution 300 DPIs, color mode RGB, JPG (average quality - 5) or PDF up to the limit of 1,5 MB for each work. Each e-mail must contain only one work and it must come with the respective entry form.
5. Prizes:
5.1 The guiding criteria for selecting and awarding will be:
Creativity.
Originality (The work must not have been published in any kind of media and must not have been awarded in this kind of competition either).
Quality of the drawings.
5.2 Prizes: The prize for the first place will be R$ 10.000,00 (Ten thousand Reais) plus a trophy and a certificate. The second and third places will receive trophies and certificates. The jury may give honorable mentions to the participants.
The awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
Prizes not taken in 90 (ninety) days after the releasing of the results will become worthless.
The value of the prize for international works will be converted to dollars according to its value on June 27th 2007, date of the beginning of the competition. The prize will be paid in March 2008.
6. Copyright: By submitting their works, the authors transfer automatically all copyright of their awarded works to brazilcartoon, which may use the works freely. The awarded works will be part of the brazilcartoon Artwork Collection.
7. Disagreement on results: If the jury verifies any kind of fraud or plagiarism on one or more works, it will cancel the prize. The works will be on the website http://www.brazilcartoon.com/ in October 2007 and the results may be contested up to 10 (ten) days after the opening of the saloon, supported by proper proves of any mistake made by the jury. Works sent that are not according to these rules and regulations or those containing any kind of plagiarism will be automatically excluded of the contest.
8. Where to register: To ensure that the works will be sent properly, we suggest that the works be sent through our website, using the system bellow, filling out the entry form and attaching your drawings.
ENTRY FORM
Deadline: September 26, 2007. The date the e-mail was sent will be observed.
9. Further information: Brazilcartoon Organization.
Marcio Leite 55 38-3216-1109 info@brazilcartoon.com

Flexibility at work! - Belgium

Flexibility at work! - congress ACV BI 2007 -
Cartoon theme: Flexibility at work
Deadline: November 7, 2007
Prizes: Prizes will be awarded as follows:
1st prize: 1000 Euro, 2nd prize: 500 Euro, 3rd prize: 250 Euro, Special prize public: 500 Euro.
Number of entries: Unlimited. Free technique. Original cartoons only. Digital: Yes.
Format: Min A4, Max A3
Works returned: Yes, on demand (award – winning cartoons will not be returned).
Exhibition: November 17 & 18, 2007 Ol Fosse d’Outh, Houffalize, Belgium
Free catalogue: No. After the contest on our website http://www.acvbi.be/
Copyright issues: The artworks will only be used in the magazines and leaflets of our organization, ACV Bouw en Industrie, a trade union for the construction and industry.
Address to send the artworks:
ACV BI Cartoon contest “Flexibility at Work” Trierstraat 31, 1040 Brussel BELGIUM
phone: +32 (0)477 54 39 35 (Piet Daneels)
e-mail: bouw_industrie@acv-csc.be website: http://www.acvbi.be/

16th Golden Helmet - Serbia

RULES OF XVI CONCURS

*Golden Helmet* announces a contest titled *WHAT'S INSURED IS FOR SURE*

CATEGORIES:

1. CARTOON

2. WRITTEN FORM - Short story - Poem- Aphorism

3. COMIC

PROPOSITIONS:

1. CARTOON: Original, Minimum A4 (210x297 mm), Maximum A3 (297x420), free technique:

2. WRITTEN FORM: maximum two typed pages or up to 20 aphorisms;

3. COMIC: original, up to eight tables, free technique;

AWARDS:
CARTOON:

1st AWARD: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 1000 € + One-man Exhibition in 2008;

2nd AWARD: 500 €

3rd AWARD: 300 €

WRITTEN FORM:

SHORT STORY: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

POEM: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

APHORISM: PLAQUE *GOLDEN HELMET* + 400 €

COMIC: 200 €

PORTRAIT CARICATURE - TOPIC: ALL MY PRESIDENTS
PROPOSITIONS: original, minimum A4, A3

AWARD: 300 €

DEADLINE: Nov. 20, 2007.

Only unpublished works will be taken into consideration. Author's short biography, phone number, and e-mail are obligatory.

Written works to be sent under a code!
Jury decision will be announced on Dec. 1, 2007 and awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1, 2008. The Organizer will bear travel and accommodation cost of awarded authors.

Festival official languages are Serbian and English.

All works remain property of the Festival.

E-mail: goldenhelmet@ptt.yu

Adress: “GOLDEN HELMET” TOPLICINA 2/2, 37000 KRUSEVAC - SERBIA

(Source: http://www.nosorog.rs.sr/diff2.html)