18.5.08

20th Olense Kartoenale - Belgium

20° Olense Kartoenale 2008 - Belgium
Annual Cartoon Contest – Rules and regulation 2008
1. Participation
All contestants will be admitted with no distinction made regarding nationality or age.
There are two categories:
· Youth category up to 15 years inclusive;
· Adult category: 16 years and older.
2. Theme
The theme is „Extreme sports & strange hobbies“.
3. Entries
· Original cartoons in black and white or colour, may bear no captions.
· Dimensions including any passe-partout 21 x 30 cm.
· Works sent rolled and works larger than DIN A4 will not be returned.
· Number of entries per contestant: maximum five.
4. Property rights
Prize-winning works will become the property of the organizer or the major sponsors.
All works selected may be used by the organizers to promote the contest and the village of Olen.
5. Catalogue/Cartoon book
Selected works will be considered for inclusion in a catalogue. The authors of these works will receive a free copy of the catalogue during the prize ceremony or it will be send afterwards by mail.
6. Return mail
Return of the cartoons happens only on explicit request of the participant. In that case the return of the works will take place at organizers’ cost approximately six months after the ‘deadline’.
The organizers will endeavour to handle the return forwardings with the utmost care but cannot be held responsible for loss or damages.
7. Deadline
The deadline is 22 September 2008.
The entry form and the cartoon(s) must be send to:
Olense Kartoenale Gemeentehuis Dorp 1, B-2250 Olen Belgium
8. Prizes
For the adult category:
1st prize: 1000 euro
2nd prize: 300 euro
3rd prize: 200 euro
4th prize: 150 euro
5th prize: 125 euro
For the youth category:
1st prize: 200 euro
2nd prize: 175 euro
3rd prize: 150 euro
4th prize: 100 euro
Only for Belgian participants:
Prize of the province of Antwerp: week-end (youth and adult category)
9. Prize Ceremony and Exhibition
The prize ceremony will take place at Friday 14th of November 2008 at approximately 20.00 h in the council room of the town hall of Olen, Dorp 1, 2250 Olen. Every participating artist will be welcome on that occasion.
A selection of the cartoons will also be exhibited at the same address and can be visited:
· Sunday 16th of November 2008
· All working days from Monday 17th of November 2008 till 19th of December 2008 during the opening hours of the town hall.

9.5.08

Results 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

Results of 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

The Jury:
Rumen Dragostinov (cartoonist) - Bulgaria
Muhittin Koroglu (cartoonist) - Turkey
Marcio Leite da Silva (cartoonist) - BRAZIL
Mohammad Amin Aghaei (cartoonist) - Iran
Julian PENA-PAI (cartoonist) - ROMANIA
Mahmoud Saheen (Critic reviewer) – Syria
Hasan M. Yousef (Journalist & writer) - Syria
Morhaf Yousef - (cartoonist) - Syria

WINNERS

Grand Prize: Constantine Ciosu – Romania

Cartoon Theme, Culture and Art:

Golden Prize: Jugoslav Vlahovic –Serbia

Silver Prize: Payam Pourfalah – IRAN

Bronze Prize: Frackiewicz JACEK- Poland

Caricature:
Golden Prize: Zhu Zizun-China
Silver Prize: Amin Montazeri – IRAN
Bronze Prize : Ivailo Tsvetkov –Bulgaria

FREE:
Golden Prize: Bahram Azimi –IRAN
Silver Prize: Jugoslav Vlahovic –Serbia
Bronze Prize : Sevda Jannati Rad –IRAN

Special Prize:
Florin Balaban- Luxembourg
Afraa al Yousef – Syria
Rahim Baggal Asgari – IRAN
Agim Sulaj – Albania
Alessandro Gatto – ITALY
Julio Carriَn Cueva -KARRY- Peru
Jiang Lidong – China
Atila Ozer – Turkey
Ligarribay Luis – Brazil
Ferreol Murillo Fuentes - Costa Rica
Hani Abbas – Palestine
Yaser Ahmed – Syria
Bobo Pernecky- Slovakia

Honorable mentions:
Damir NOVAK – CROATIA
Athanassios Efthimiadis – GREECE
Yuriy KOSOBUKIN – Ukraine
Hossein Rahimkhani – IRAN
Jabbar ABDOLEE -IRAN
Manuel Sainz Serrano - Spain
Marzeyah REZAIE – IRAN
Naeimeh Nicouray - IRAN
Neda Tanhaei MOGHADDAM - IRAN
Roman Kubec – CZECH
Shahin Kalantary - IRAN
Shahram REZAEI - IRAN
Shahid Atiqullah – Switzerland
Shahrokh HEIDARI – IRAN
Silvano Rosa Mooncalves de Melo - BRAZIL
Valentin Druzhinin – Russia
Valeri Kurtu - GERMANY
Zoran JOSIC – Slovenia
JALAL PIRMARZABAD – IRAN
John Carlos Mattias - Brazil
Luiz Claudio Luzca Barros –BRAZIL
Ivailo Tsvetkov – BULGARIA
Zhu ZIZUN – CHINA
Abdullah ASAAD – SYRIA
AGILI ELABIDI – LIBYA
Aidarbek Gazizov – Kazakhstan
Aleksandr Blatnik - Serbia
Alexey I. GVARDIN – UZBEKISTAN
Alexei Talimonov - GREAT BRITAIN
ALI AGHAEY – IRAN
B. A. BILIG - CHINA
Bayram HACIZADEH – AZERBAIJAN
Benjasit TUMYING - THAILAND
Berarani Kamel – ALGERIA
Bernard BOUTON – FRANCE
Constantin Ciosu – ROMANIA
Daniel SAHDE (DAS) – JAPAN
David Evzen – CZECH
Dawood Deldar – IRAN
Didie SW – INDONESIA
Douha Al Khatib – Syria
Dragan Velickovic – Serbia
Dubinin Valentin - RUSSIA
Dubovsky Alexander – UKRAINE
ENN EHALA - Estonia
Fadi ABU HASSAN - Syria
Fahd Bahady – SYRIA
Firuz Kutal - Norway
Gai YU – CHINA
Gopal SARKAR – INDIA
Goran Divac – SERBIA
Grigoris GEORGIOU - GREECE
GUL`MIRA AZIZOVA – UZBEKISTAN
Horia CRISAN - ROMANIA
Igor Nikitin – RUSSIA
Ivan Anchukov – RUSSIA
Jaber Asadi – IRAN
Jaksa Vlahovic – SERBIA
Jordan Pop-Iliev - Macedonia
Jwan Zero – SYRIA
Li Xiaoyang – CHINA
Louis POL – AUSTRALIA
Luka Lagator – MONTENEGRO
Mahdieh Shafiei – IRAN
Mahmood Nazari-IRAN
Makhmudjon ESHONKULOV – Uzbekistan
Marian Trutulesu – ROMANIA
Marjan Malek Mahmoodi –IRAN
Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei – IRAN
Mihaita PORUMBITA – ROMANIA
Milan Bukovac – SERBIA
Mileta MILORADOVIC – SERBIA
Milos PANIC PANCO – CROATIA
Mohamad Hossein Akbari – IRAN
Mowafaq FARZAT - Kuwait
Mumin Bayram – TURKEY
Musa GUMUS – TURKEY
Mohammad Ali KHALAJI - IRAN
Naji Benaji - MOROCCO
Nedal Deeb – SYRIA
Nedal KHALIL - SYRIA
Nguyenhuu Huey – USA
Nikola OTAS – SERBIA
Nizar OTHMAN – Lebanon
Oguz Gurel –TURKEY
Oleg Dergachov – CANADA
Osama Salti – SYRIA
Pavel Janguirov - ARMENIA
Peter Tjagunov – GERMANY
Rabia AL ARIDI – SYRIA
Radik AZIZOV – UZBEKISTAN
Ramiro Zardoya Sanchez (ZARDOYAS) –CUBA
RAUL DE LA NUES – CUBA
Raquel Orzuj – Uruguay
Resad Sultanovic – Bosnia & Hercegovina
Rooshan Gataullin – RUSSIA
Sadegh Bagheri - IRAN
Sador Mulaj – Hungary
Saeed SADEGHI – IRAN
Sasha DIMITRIJEVIC – SERBIA
Semerenko VLADIMIR - RUSSIA
Serhiy Naberezhnykh – UKRAINE
Seyran CAFERLI – AZERBAIJAN
Tony Houbrechts – BELGIUM
Tsogtbayar Samandari (satso) - Mongolia
Umit Mufit Dincay - TURKEY
Valentine GEORGIEV – BULGARIA
Victor Crudu - MOLDAVIA
Victor Emmanuel Chubasco – Mexico
Vladimir KAZANEVSKY – UKRAINE
WALID NAIF - IRAQ
Xiaoqiang HOU - CHINA
Zaza Leonardo –ITALY
Zdenko PUHJIN – CROATIA
Benjamin HEINE - IVORY COAST
ELraya Ombaddi Abu Baker - SUDAN
Mosa Ejawi – JORDAN
Abdulah Y. Alhamzy – YEMEN
Etidal Abed Aljedaani - Saudi Arabia
Bhekani Emerald Thwala - South Africa
Ural Caricature Club (CRANBERRY) - Russia

Best regards
RAED KHALIL
Director of 4th International cartoon contest (SYRIA 2008)

See more prize-winning cartoons at:
http://www.syriacartoon.com/news/2008/news-090500804.html

Results 8th International Mediterranean - Turkey

Results 8th International Mediterranean Cartoon Contest, Alanya - Turkey
Organised in Turkey by Alanya Tourism and Promotion Foundation, the 8th International Mediterranean Cartoon Contest with theme "Tourism in Mediterranean" concluded.
441 entries from 49 countries were examined on May 3, 2008, by the jury comprised of Kamil Masaraci, Kamil Deniz Som, M. Nuvit Ozkan, Cihan Demirci, Ibrahim Tapa and Mahmut Karatoprak (See top above). The selected cartoons are to be exhibited for a week in Alanya from May 31, the prize-giving date. The organising foundation will publish the exhibited cartoons in a catalog.
The list of prize-winning artists is as follows:
1st Prize: MOHAMMAD ALI KHALAJI (IRAN) (See above)
2nd Prize: ALI BULCA (ANKARA/TURKEY)
3rd Prize: DRAGUTIN DADO KOVACEVIC (CROATIA)
Special Pizes:
LUC VERNIMMEN (BELGIUM)
RAUL DE LA NUEZ (U.S.A.)
SEMERENKO VLADIMIR (RUSSIA)
FUMINKO HOKOYAMA (JAPAN)
ATHOS CAREGHI (ITALY)
MEHMET SELCUK (DENIZLI/TURKEY).
2008-05-05
Source:
http://www.alanya.com.tr/tr/Haberler/w,457-8.-Uluslararasi-Karikatur-Yarismasi-Sonuclandi.html

6.5.08

Winners of Editorial Cartoon Competition - Canada

Russian Cartoonist wins International Editorial Cartoonists Award
The winners of the International Editorial Cartoon competition for 2008 are:

First Prize - Ivan Anchukov – Russian Federation

Second Prize - Gilbert Daroy – Philippines

Third Prize - Masoud Ziaei Zardkhashoei – Iran

Certificates of Excellence
Paulo Volmar Matos Vilanova – Brazil
Aristides Hernandez (Ares) – Cuba
Jugoslav Vlahovic - Serbia
Bobo Pernecky – Slovakia
Jitet Koestana – Indonesia
Vladimir Kazanevsky – Ukraine
Ross Thomson – England
Mahmood Salami – Iran
Run Tang Li – China
Ahmet Aykanat - Turkey (See below)

See all prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.ccwpf-cclpm.ca/english/cartoon-winners

5.5.08

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look-2008”

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look-2008” (Russia)
Rules
1. Participants take part in the competition with an original cartoon or very qualitative copy. Cartoons must be signed by the cartoonist in case that they are submitted as computer print outs. Photographs, photocopies etc., will not be accepted.
2. Previously awarded works will not be accepted.
3. Size of cartoons should not exceed 21 x 29.7 cm (A4 paper size). Works should be submitted unframed and unmounted.
4. The Organizers will not be responsible for damage that may occur during postage and handling.
5. Competition is open to professional and amateur cartoonists from all over the world.
6. Subject is “Ecology. Pure city. Clear ideas”.
7. Participants are expected to send the filled in participation form, a short curriculum vitae and a photograph together with their cartoons. Otherwise applications will not be considered.
8. The Jury of Festival creates from the experts competent in the field of a cartoon, the fine arts. The Jury will meet in July 2008 for the selection and award of the works. The jury's decision is final and cannot be contested.
9. Award-winning cartoons will not be returned to the artists.
10. Prizes:
The first place - 1800$ and «The Gold pencil»,
The second place - 1100$ and «The Silver pencil»,
The third place - 500$ and «The Bronze pencil».
11. Cartoons which do not win awards will be returned to the artists upon written request.
12. Participants may also leave their cartoons the Cartoon Museum, to be established by the Organizers.
13. All selected works will be displayed in an exhibition and one free copy of the exhibition catalogue will be sent to the artists whose works have been selected.
14. The cartoons will be displayed at http://look.goodideas.su/ (http://vzglyad.goodideas.su/) and may be used for promotional purposes printed or electronically or otherwise and permit third parties to reproduce them for promotional purposes of the exhibition and used without any monetary or otherwise compensation. Participants are considered to have accepted all the conditions stated herein.
15. By filling and signing the entry form, the artist undoubtedly agrees with the above-mentioned terms of the contest.
16. The award ceremony will take place in Belgorod (Russia) September, 16. The exhibition on results of Cartoon Contest will pass at Belgorod children's art school.
17. Deadline for entries is July 11, 2008.
18. Address: P.O. Box 25, Eugene Kramskoy, Festival «Clear Look», Belgorod, 308015 Russia
Festival Vice-president: Eugene Kramskoy

Augusto Cid wins 10th PortoCartoon World Festival

Augusto Cid


Muhittin Koroglu


Dalcio Machado

Taeyong Kang

Augusto Cid wins X PortoCartoon
The well-known Portuguese cartoonist Augusto Cid was the winner of the 10th PortoCartoon World Festival, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, and with the Official Sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
The second prize was to Muhittin Koroglu, from Turkey and the third prize was awarded to two cartoonists ex aequo: Dalcio Machado, from Brazil and Taeyong Kang, from South Korea.
"The Olympic flame", was the title of the winner cartoon, and calls the attention to the multiple violations of Human Rights of China on Tibet.
Augusto Cid collaborates weekly with the newspaper SOL and had an anthological exhibition on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in 2004. Called "The Knight of the cartoon" the exhibition presented about 120 of his best cartoons made throughout his career.
The "Human Rights" was the theme chosen for this PortoCartoon edition and assumes a special relevance at this time with the Olympic flame's problems on its journey to China.
As the quality of the works received was of a very high level, the PortoCartoon international jury had also given 15 honourable mentions: Seyran Caferli, Azerbaijan; Luc Vernimmen, Belgium; Cau Gomez, Brazil; Eduardo Ferreira Grosso, Brazil; Harold Ortiz Sandoval, Colombia; Myung-Lae Nam, South Korea; Alberto Morales Ajubel, Spain; António Mongiello “Napo”, France; Dave Connaughton, England; Angel Boligan, Mexico; Pawel Kuczynski, Poland; António Santos, Portugal; Ali Sur, Turkey; Musa Gumus, Turkey and Sevket Yalaz, Turkey.
The winners will receive a monetary prize and bottles of special Port Wine (special reserve) together with the trophy and diploma.
This is the first time over the ten years of this festival we registered such a geographical enlargement of the participation, 70 countries. This means a growth of 20% when comparing it with 2007. Moreover, both in terms of cartoonists and works the participation of previous years was exceed. The organization of PortoCartoon received almost 2000 drawings of more than 500 artists. Brazil is the country with more participants - more than 50 cartoonists, with 200 works. In second place was Portugal, followed by Iran.
The international jury of X PortoCartoon was presided by Marlene Pohle, president of FECO and had the following members: Xaquin Marin, director of the Museo de Humor de Fene (Spain), Julio Dolbeth, from the Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto, Lucília José Justino, President of Amnesty International of Portugal; Naoki Seshimo, Japanese architect; Nuno Costa Santos, representative of Produções Fictícias; Raquel Almeida, representing the Ministry of Culture, and Luís Humberto Marcos, director of PortoCartoon and Museum.
The PortoCartoon is considered by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists Organisations) as one of the three most important festivals of humour in the entire world. FECO is the most important international cartoonists’ organization and represents more than 2000 artists of 30 countries.
The PortoCartoon has been annually organized since 1998, and this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, always with themes of great impact worldwide.
Several hundreds of thousands of visitors have seen the ninth editions of PortoCartoon which took place on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, and in the several cities where exhibited, including countries as Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Mexico.
The winners of the X PortoCartoon will receive their trophies and prizes during the opening ceremony of the exhibition to be held on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in June, during the S. João of Porto festivities.
The other winning cartoons can been seen in the http://www.cartoonvirtualmuseum.org/i_noticias_f_i.htm