Dedeté 2008 Graphic Humor Contest

Dedeté 2008 Graphic Humor Contest
Deadline: January, 14 2008
It is critical to great a consciousness about phenomena ecologically affecting the planet. Likewise, powers and governments such as that of the United States are promoting the use of the bio-fuels for political ends, without considering the social consequences. These effects, taking the form of natural disasters, are producing global warming to such a degree that “climatic change” has prompted the newspaper to convene the International Biennial Dedeté 2008.
Title: Give the Planet a Chance!
Requirements of the Biennial:
The contest is open to all the caricaturists/cartoonists, designers and graphic artists of the world who carry out their works within the sphere of graphic humor. These can be produced using any technique, but should be sent only by electronic mail to the address: dedetecontest@jrebelde.cip.cu.
The works must be previously unpublished and fulfill the following technical regulations: format A4 ( 21 cm x 29.7 cm), resolution: 300 dpi, image type jpg, black and white or color, maximum of three works per author. In each e-mail only a single image may be attached, and should not exceed one megabyte.
The sending of the work(s) to the biennial includes acceptance of the following:
The contestants agree to relinquish their royalties to the “Dedeté,” which commits to use the works only for educational purposes and for the promotion of environmentalist culture – not for lucrative ends. Works not meeting these parameters will not be accepted in our Biennial.
Prizes:
Great International Biennial Prize of Dedeté 2008
Gold Medal
Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Expiration for shipment of work(s): Monday, January 14, 2008. 15:00 hours EST

(Source: http://www.brazilcartoon.com/)

Solin 2005 & 2007 CD-catalog

Solin CD-Catalog
The CD-catalog of the International Cartoon Festival Solin 2007 is sent to participants in the event. This Croatian festival seems like to be a biennial for being organised in 2005 the first time. The theme was "Archeology" in both editions and free theme cartoons were accepted as well. The CD-catalog covers not only numerous shots from the opening and the exhibition party 2007 but also the scenes from the 2005 exhibition and the selected cartoons in both events.
The Grand Prize 2007 is given to Yuriy Kosobukin’s cartoon (see top above) from Ukraine and there are some more works awarded in the festival. Zeljko Ceric (see below) from Croatia was the winner of the Grand Prize in Solin 2005.
The following artists from Turkey are among the selected:

Solin 2005: Ahmet Aykanat, Alaaddin Cevikbas (2), Alaaddin Arda, Burhanettin Ardagil, Eray Ozbek, Ergul Aktas, Sema Undeger, Yusuf Temiz.

Solin 2007: Atila Ozer, Muammer Kotbas (2), Kemal Ozyurt, Serdar Gunbilen (5), Umit Mufit Dincay (3).

Results of Cheval Blanc - FRANCE 2007 - FIREMEN

Results of the First International Cartoon Contest of Cheval Blanc - FRANCE 2007 - FIREMEN

WINNERS:

First Winner: Valentin Georgiev / Bulgaria (See right)

Second Winner: Raul De La Nuez / USA

Third Winner: Rahim Baqqal Asghari / Iran (See above)

Selected works for calender 2009:

Valentin Georgiev / Bulgaria

Raed Khalil / Syria

Raul De La Nuez / USA

Naser Barfarazi / Iran

Rahim Baqqal Asghari / Iran

Amit Kumar / India

Lotthes Lotto / Germany

Luka Lagator / Montenegro

Oleg Dergachov / Canada

Wei Hong Min / China

Yurij Kosobukin / Ukraine

Cemaletin Guzeloglu / Turkey.

See more prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.tabrizcartoons.com/en/detail.asp?ID=578l.asp?ID=578

Results of Humor and Road Education

Results of Salon Int' Graphical Humor and Road Education

CATEGORY - Vial Education for Children and Adolescents

First prize: Huey Nguyenhuu / United States

Second Prize: Eduardo Dos Reis Evangelista / Brazil

Third Prize: Seyran Caferli / Azerbaijan

CATEGORY-Road Adult Education

First prize: Ilya Katz / Israel

Second Prize: Seyran Caferli / Azerbaijan (See right)

Third Prize Marcelo Alejo Luduena Rosario-Santa Fe / Argentina

MENCIONES

Special Mention - "Roberto Fontanarrosa" Mariano German Kreser Buenos Aires / Argentina Honorable Mentions

Rafael Ramos Santa Fe/ Argentina

Luis Ligarribay Rio Negro/ Argentina

Louis Pol / Australia

Jose A. Angonoa / Cordoba / Argentina

Adrian A. Palmas Cordoba / Argentina

Luis Eduardo Leon / Colombia

Gennady Chegodayev / Russia

Rumen Dragostinov / Bulgaria

Mohammad Ali Khalaji / Iran

Ba Bilig / China

(Source: http://www.cartoonblues.com/forum-e/viewtopic.php?t=155)

EUROPEAN CARTOON CONTEST ”WOMAN“ - Belgium

Dear artists,
During the annual Fair, the Statiekomitee Aalter organises a cartooncontest and an exhibition.

The cartoons will be judged by a professional jury. The winning cartoons will be exhibited during the fair (May 2nd - May 12th) and will be published in a free brochure (8000 copies).
Annex you can find more information and on our webstite: www.statiekomitee.be/cartoonale

Please add the entry form when sending your cartoons (before March 1st).

Kind regards

Statiekomitee Aalter

EUROPEAN CARTOON CONTEST "WOMAN"
Subject : Woman
Candidates : All of Europe
Deadline: 1st of March 2008
Prizes:

1st prize € 500,00
2nd prize € 300,00
3rd prize € 200,00
The winners will be informed before the 1st of April ’08.
Public prize: € 150,00
The winner will be informed before the 1st of April ’08.
Entries: A max of 5 , original cartoons on quality paper, dated and signed at the back, unfolded and flat are accepted.
No digital entries.
Address: Cartoonale "De vrouw"

p/a Toon Beuckels
Poekedorp 27
B 9880 Aalter-Poeke
Belgium
Organisation: vzw Statiekomitee Aalter info@statiekomitee.be
Contact: +32(0)477 891 313
Text: No texts
Size: DIN A4 (210 mm x 297 mm / 8.268 x 11.693 inches)
Technique: free, both black and white and colour
Exposition: From the 2nd of May until the 12th of May at hotel Capitole, Stationsstraat 149-151, 9880 Aalter
Brochure: the selected works will be published in a four colour brochure, size A5 and on our website www.statiekomitee.be/cartoonale
Controversy: The decision of the organising committee is final and not discussable.
All entered works remain the property of the organising committee, Statiekomitee VZW/NPO

International China Olympic Cartoon Competition

The 1st International China Olympic Cartoon Competition
Organizer: China Animation Association; Beijing Red-Green-Blue Cinema & TV Advertisement Center.

Jury Organizer: China Art Association Cartoon committee.

The Competition open to any professional and afterhours cartoonists and humor writers all over the world.

The tenet of Competition is: Healthy, Facetious, Harmonious and Enterprising. All discrimination against religion or race will not be acceptted, also all relate to obscenity or violence will be rejected.

Categories:

A) All about Olympic, including Olympic Games and all relate to sports stuff;

B) My Choice(Free Theme), all about Humor...;

C) Humor essay and joke.

Dates:

Deadline: Jan.1, 2008.

Jury meeting: Mar.1-10, 2008.

Award ceremony: will be helden on The Great Wall before The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Exhibition: will be helden in Yufa New Media Cinema & TV Advertisement City attach in The National New Media Base, Daxing, Beijing before The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and itinerant exhibitions around China.

Prizes:

1)Monthly Prizes: Any author may win prizes repeatedly, and monthly Prizes will not impact the main prizes.

RMB 5,000 for 1-3 winners for each category (A and B category), RMB 1,000 for 1-3 winners (C category).

The Monthly Prizes will be awarded from Dec, 2006 to Jan, 2008, in number 14 months.

2)Main Prizes:

Grand Prize: RMB 250,000 for 1 winner;

Gold Prize: RMB 50,000 for 1 winners each category (A and B category), RMB 10,000 for 1 winners for C category.

Silver Prize: RMB 30,000 for 2 winners each category (A and B category), RMB 5,000 for 2 winners for C category.

Bronze Prize: RMB 10,000 for 3 winners each category (A and B category), RMB 3,000 for 3 winners for C category.

100 Special Prizes will be awarded a special Jade medal.

Rules:

1) No entry fee.

2) participator may submit up any quantity works, no limited for entries, whether any category.

3) The entries may be sent by email or by postal mail. For the works submitted by email or CD, the digital files must be A4(21×29.7cm), 300 dpi, Jpeg or Gif format;

For the works on paper, the maximum size of paperback is A4(29.7×42cm), the quality prints will also be acceptted;

For the 3D works, the maximum length of any side is 50cm, the maximum weight is 20kg;

No limit about the essay and joke.

4) All entry must be accompanied with the resume of author, also the author's name, title of the work, address, telephone number, email must be with works together.

5) The technique of entry is no limited, any drawing, digital work, prints, photograph and sculpture will be acceptted.

6) Entries must not be framed.

7) Authors should be responsible for the originality of their works.

8) All entries will be not returnned back, will be collected in Yufa New Media Cinema & TV Advertisement City attach in The National New Media Base, Daxing, Beijing.

9) The organizer may use all entries for any objective for spreadding the competition without additional commision.

10) All selected artists and writers will get an free album.

11) The participator accept the conditions and provisions of these regulations and agree to abide by the decisions of the jury.

12) The organizer have right to explain all the rules.
Address:

Email to: olympicartoon@yahoo.com olympicartoon@126.com manwu1001@126.com

Postal mail to: 15 Floor-B, Shijijinyuan Hotel Business Building, No.69 Banjing RD, Haidian District, Beijing, P. R. China

Post code: 100089

Contact:

Tel: 0086 10 88454391 Fax: 0086 10 88443757

Web site: http://www.manwu1001.com/ http://www.cartooncn.org/

Regulations: http://www.cartooncn.org/ennews01.asp

Drawing for women - Jaka bede ...2008 - Poland

XIX INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ON DRAWING
REGULATIONS

International competition on drawing for women - "Jaka bede ...2008"

The subject of the competition is a woman, modern and fashionable, joyful and upset one, a wife, mother and a friend but not also a sportswoman, a physician or just the woman... Everybody knows that it is not possible to live without her...

Participation

In the competition will take a part drawing, cartoons and other plastic acts made in optional technics; those original works that have already been exhibited or published but not being rewarded.

1. Competition will be carried in two categories: DRAWING and SATIRE. The author qualifies his work for the chosen category by himself.

2. Format of work - max A3, amount of work - up to 1 works in each category

3. Entrants are responsible for ensuring the correct postage.

4. Entries must arrive at the address below by not later than 22.02.2007 /deadline/

Miroslaw Krzyskowul. Powstancow Warszawy 10/1, 11-400 Ketrzyn Poland (with additional note: Konkurs)

5. The reverse side of the cartoon and / or drawing should bear the surname, forename and address of the entrant in Latin block letters.

6. A short biographic note and some personal details (the surname, forname, address, mobile phone number, e-mail address) should be added.

7. The condition of returning of sent entries is handing down for the Gallery one selected by the author work.

8. Rewarded works will belong to the organisers.

9. Sending plastic works is synonymous with author's agreement for the regulations of the competition.

Prizes

1. Entries will be appreciated by the jury selected by organisers among friendly artists and satirists.

Tomasz Wołoszyn (2001), Krzysztof Toboła (2002), Dorota Chwałek (2003), Andreas Malecki - Niemcy (2003), Daniel Strzelczyk (2005), Sławomir Łuczyński (2006), Bretislav Kovarik - Czechy (2005, 2006), Anna Sokolska (2005, 2006), Stanislav Aszmarin - Rosja (2005), Mirosław Krzyków - ORGANIZATOR

Never work of jurors subjected estimate and they are exposed (set out) beyond competition.

2. Prizes will be appropriate, unexpected and original.

3. Awards are handed in during the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Jaka bede..." or during the summer /plener/ in Jedwabno organized specially for laureates of the competition. On special request of a laureate his award can be sent by mail.

Privileges of the entrants

1. Authors of selected for the exhibition entries will get a gratuitous catalogue.

2. The decision of the festival is predicted to be announced on 10 March 2008 at 17 o'clock

3. The participating in the competition is free of charge.

If you need more details please contact: mirek@krzyskow.pl
WEB: http://jaka.krzyskow.pl/jaka2008/jaka2008.htm
JURY: http://jaka.krzyskow.pl/jaka2008/jury2008.htm

“Rhinoceros” Competition - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Magazine “RHINOCEROS” CARICATURE COMPETITION
Theme: “WORLD KNOWN PERSON” (From present or past: sport, music, politics, art, science and so on…)
Technique: Any technique will be accepted.
Deadline: February 28th 2008
Maximum entry: 5
You may send by post or e-mail (A4 - A3 size).
Post address: MAGAZINE “NOSOROG”CARA DUSANA 4, 78000 BANJA LUKA, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA Bosnia and Herzegovina EUROPE
Note: Please, do not send originals, because we will not send you back!
Address for sending by e-mail: nosorog.magazine@gmail.com Note: 300 dpi resolution!
In both cases, please, write your name, address, e-mail, and, specially, name of person you made caricature (for each caricature).
Note: Sender must be author of caricature!
PRIZES: First prize: 350 Euros + diploma; Second prize: 250 Euros + diploma; Third prize: 150 Euros + diploma; Special prizes: 5 diplomas.
Jury:
Mr. Goran Kljajich, president; writer, founder of “Rhino” magazine and this competition; Republic of Srpska
Mr. Miladin Beric, writer, vice-president; Republika Srpska
Ms. Ljiljana Cekic, actress, official spokesman of competition; Republika Srpska
Ms. Maria Claudia Re, cartoonist, Argentina
Mr. Senad Honic, cartoonist and writer, Sweden
Mr. Mica M.Tumaric, writer, Serbia
Mr. Georgi Josifov, academic painter, Serbia
Mr. Milenko Kosanovic, cartoonist, Serbia.
Competition supported by Ministry of education and culture of Republika Srpska!
(Source: http://www.cartoonblues.com/)