New Year 2008 greeting card by Vorontsov

The most recent new year greeting card is from Mikola Vorontsov.

Best wishes Mikola!

See more at:

http://kolyaka.livejournal.com

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Call from Donquichotte netmagazine

Dear Cartoonist..

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto murdered.

World peace is striken one more time.

Would you like to draw about it?

Erdogan Karayel

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International 7-77 Cartoon Competition - Turkey

The 14th International Ankara Cartoon Festival
The 14th International Ankara Cartoon Festival is going to be held from April 18th to 21st, 2008 during the 79th Children’s Day activities, which are celebrated in our country every year on the 23rd April .
The international 7-77 Cartoon Competition will be organized under the 14th International Ankara Cartoon Festival. The aim of the competition is to make children familiar with the art of cartooning and to contribute the development of sensitivity towards humour by enriching their world with the help of cartoons you will draw.
All proffessional and amateur cartoonists will be welcomed to join in by drawing cartoons for children.
Cartoons can be drawn in black-white or colourful using any technique in either A4 or A3 size.
Cartoonists can join in the competition with an original cartoon that can be understood by children. Competitors must write their names, surnames and addresses on the back of their cartoons.
The deadline for the competition is February 15th, 2008.
Cartoons should be sent to the following address:
ULUSLARARASI 7-77 KARIKATUR YARISMASI PK:364 YENISEHIR 06443 /ANKARA/ TURKEY
The sole prize of the competition is the 7-77 PRIZE ($2,000) and the institutions’ commemorative plates.
The results of the competition will be announced on April 10th, 2008 in the local press and on the web.
The winner of the competition will be invited to Ankara from April 18th to 21st, 2008 as a guest for the activities to be held during the 14th International Ankara Cartoon Festival and will receive the award at the opening of the exhibition.
The International 7-77 Cartoon Competition catalogue and the certificate will be sent to those competitors whose cartoons were chosen by the jury and were printed in the catalogue.
Cartoons will not be sent back and all rights will be reserved by the Cartoon Foundation.
International 7-77 Cartoon Competition exhibition will be opened in various cities of Turkey and abroad.
Top above: 2007 finalist: Miroslaw Hajnos (Poland)

See 7-77 Prize-winning cartoon by Javad Alizadeh (Iran) and all finalists in 2007 at:

http://www.7-77.org/2007final/7-77-2007result.htm

Winners of Cartoon Contest 'Flexibility at work'

Results of the Cartoon Contest 'Flexibility at work' - ACV Belgium
First prize: Norbert Van Yperzeele – Belgium (See above)
Second prize: Pol Leurs – Luxembourg
Third prize: Luc Vermeersch – Belgium
Prize of the public: Luc Vermeersch – Belgium
Honourable mention: Ross Thomson – England
Honourable mention: Santiago Corne – Brasil
See all prize-winning cartoons at:

http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/palmares_flexibility_ENG.htm

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008

I WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!
MANY THANKS TO CARTOONIST FRIENDS FOR THEIR WONDERFUL GREETING CARDS!

OSVALDO MACEDO DE SOUSA

VLADIMIR KAZANEVSKY

IRINA IOSIP

CAMILO TRIANA

IZEL ROZENTAL

OMAR PEREZ

The UN Ranan Lurie Cartoon Award 2007 winners

2007 Award Winners

First Place: Ahmet Aykanat / Publication: Free lance (Turkey) (See above)

Second Place: Dalcio Machado / Publication: Correio Popular (Brazil) (See above)

Third Place: Thomas Antony / Publication: Rashtra Deepika (India)

Citation for Excellence:
Panos Maragos / Publication: Ethnos (Greece)

Angel Boligan Corbo / Publication: Newspaper: El Universal (Mexico) (See above)
Zhang Bin / Publication: Guangzhou Daily (China)
Felipe Galindo / Publication: Inxart.com & International Herald Tribune (USA)
Ronaldo Cunha Dias / Publication: Jornal O Pioneiro (Brazil)
Christo Komarnitski / Publication: “Sega” Daily (Bulgaria)

Huseyin Cakmak / Publication: Yeni Duzen Sanat (Republic of Cyprus) (See above)
Clay Bennett / Publication: The Christian Science Monitor (USA)
Tom Stiglich / Publication: Journal Register Newspapers (USA)
Steven Greenberg / Publication: Ventura County Star (USA)

See more prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.lurieunaward.com/2007winners.html

Results of CARTUNION 2007: "State & Religion"

The results of the Second International Cartoon Contest - CARTUNION 2007

Theme: State and Religion

The international Jury has announced the results of the contest:

Three main Prizes were shared between Ahmet Aykanat (Turkey) (see top above), Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia) (see below), and Sergey Sichenko (Israel).

Honorable Mentions were received by Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria), Sabine Voigt (Germany) (see below), Sergey Elkin (Russia), Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia), and Vasily Alexandrov (Russia).

A Special Jury Prize was given to Alexandr Mitnyk (Germany).

(Hey! Have you burnt any interesting books lately?)

The Administration of CARTUNION thanks everybody for the wonderful art and incredible sense of humor.

See more prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.cartoonblues.com/forum-e/viewtopic.php?t=166

Results Africa on Rise Global Cartoon Contest

Results of Africa on Rise Global Cartoon Contest

Theme: Africa: No Opportunities, Continent of Crisis or Renaissance

Dear Cartoonists, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The decisions have been made: in early November 2007, the jury met in Frankfurt/Main to select the winners of our cartoon competition 2007. The 1st prize (3.000 Euro) goes to Jonathan Shapiro /Zapiro (South Africa), the 2nd prize (2.000 Euro) to René Bouschet (France) and the 3rd prize (1.000 Euro) to Wolfgang Ammer (Austria) (see top above). Siphiwo Sobopha (South Africa) (see below) received a special award (1.500 Euro) from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Congratulations to all the winners!

The winners were introduced to the public on Monday, 3rd December, 2007 at a press conference at the French Dome in Berlin, organised by the editors of the new monthly magazine"welt-sichten“, a “merger” of the magazines "eins entwicklungspolitik" and "der überblick".

In the evening, the awards were presented to the winners by the German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul during the Development Policy Media Prize award ceremony organised by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the historical foyer at the KfW Banking Group in Berlin. The winners’ creativity was highly appreciated, as it helps to reduce prejudice and to overcome intolerance against the African continent. The decision to combine the cartoon award ceremony with the Development Policy Media Prize ceremony was acknowledged and appreciated by the expert audience.

2.300 cartoonists in all 191 UN member states and national and international cartoonists’ associations had been invited to participate in the competition. 230 cartoons were sent in, 37 of which came from Africa, 36 from Central and South America, only seven from North America, 88 from Europe and Turkey, 60 from Asia, and one from Australia. The independent jury this time included:

Marie-Roger Biloa (publisher and editor-in-chief of Africa International, Paris), Rainer Hachfeld (cartoonist, Berlin), Al Imfeld (writer, Zurich), Prof. Dr. Dieter Kramer (former curator of the Museum der Weltkulturen, Dörscheid), K. Friedrich Schade (former executive editor of the German development journal epd-Entwicklungspolitik, Schwalbach/Ts), Erich Stather (State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin/Bonn), Dr. Jasper von Altenbockum (chief of the political desk of the daily newspaper „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ - FAZ).

We would like to thank all those who helped to organise the cartoon competition 2007, and especially the cartoonists from all over world who participated in the competition.

Dr. Konrad Melchers (executive editor of the German development journal “eins Entwicklungspolitik”) and Jürgen Weber (Project Manager).

See prize-winners and more cartoons at: http://www.alpha02.com/concc/contenido-4.6.8/cms/front_content.php