16.6.08

Chinese Jiaxing International Cartoon Exhibition 2008

The Fourth Chinese Jiaxing International Cartoon Exhibition 2008
Host Units: Artists's Association of China
The Municipal Goverment of Jiaxing City
Award: The Jury committee will choose 200 works for exhibition, there are 2 works provided for The Best Representation Prizes, 5 works provided for The Best Idea Prizes, 10 works provided for The Best Skill Prizes, and 30 works provided for the excellent works, the totle 47 winning works will be awarded with top grade trophy.
The winners will be invited to attend the award ceremony in October, 2008 in Jiaxing city, China.
Exhibition: The exhibition of The Fourth Chinese Jiaxing International Cartoon Exhibition 2008 will be holden in Puhua Gallery in October, 2008 in Jiaxing city.
Each author whose work selected for exhibition will get one copy of the catalogue of exhibition and certificate.
The selected works will be collected in Puhua gallery, Jiaxing city. The works which can not enter the exhibition will be returned to the authors after exhibition.
The Host Units have right to use the selected works for spreading, publishing etc.
Each author should submit no more than 3 works for exhibition, any technique and form of works will be acceptted, the size of work should not exceed 420 × 297 mm, the author's information including author's name, title, address, postcode, email, telephone should be written on the back of works.
The deadline is August 30, 2008.
Program: Host Units will invite the winners to attend the award ceremony and the cartoon week in October, 2008 in Jiaxing city, the Host Units will cover the flight and hotel's charge.
Authors who submit works to exhibition means they accept all above rules.
Address: No.36 Zhonghe Road, Puhua Gallery, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, P.R.China Postcode: 314000
Telephone: 0086 573 82085748, 0086 573 82071601
Fax: 0086 573 82085748
Email: jxphmsg@yeah.net
Contact: Mr.Ling Dalun, Mr.Ling Jiachun, Mr.Zhong Zhongxiao
Committee of The Fourth Chinese Jiaxing International Cartoon Exhibition 2008
Source: http://www.cartooncn.org/ennews.asp?nid=36

Winners in ZAGREB 2008 - Croatia

13. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION ZAGREB 2008
THEME: GAMBLING
The 13th International Exhibition of Cartoons ZAGREB 2008 has seen the arrival of 452 works of 226 authors from 48 countries.

THE WINNERS

GOLD MEDAL: MOJMIR MIHATOV, Croatia

SILVER MEDAL: OTON ANTON REISINGER, Croatia

BRONZE MEDAL: BRETISLAV KOVARIK, Czech Republic

SPECIAL MENTIONS:
BRANKO ILIĆ, Croatia
YURIY KOSOBUKIN, Ukraine
READ KHALIL, Syria
OLEKSIY KUSTOVSKIY, Ukraine
IVAN ŠARIĆ, Croatia

10.6.08

New Deadline in China Guangxi City College Contest

New Deadline: June 30 2008 in China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest
The emergency notice of 2008 China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest Organizing Committee

Dear cartoonist:
2008 China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest has received more than 3000 works. For the cartoonists' demand, Our Cartoon Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the expired date, from 8th June, 2008 to 30th June,2008. And we want to tell you that you can send your works by E-mail firstly, after we access the works, if you have been awarded, we will notice you to send us your original works.
If you want to know more information about it, please look up the information from http://www.gxccfy.com/cartoon/
And the 2007 China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest will award the certificates and photo album soon. If you have been awarded in the 2007 China Guangxi City College International Cartoon Contest, please send your detail address to cygjmh2007@163.com. Guangxi City College Organizing Committee
3rd, June

Derambakhsh’s “Symphony of Lines” to ring out soon

Derambakhsh’s “Symphony of Lines” to ring out in cartoon world
TEHRAN, June 9 (MNA) -- Two new cartoon collections created by Iranian artist Kambiz Derambakhsh entitled “The Symphony of Lines” and “Olympics of Laughter” will be published in the near future.
In “Olympics of Laughter”, Derambakhsh drew cartoons on the theme of sports with thoughtful imagination.
He created a harmony by drawing cartoons of musical instruments in his collection “The Symphony of Lines”.
The collections are in black and white. He usually uses simple black lines in his cartoons, rarely employing color, captions, or titles. “While I can speak through simple lines, I do not need colors to communicate,” he told the Mehr News Agency on Sunday.
“The Symphony of Lines” is comprised of a selection of artworks published in the foreign press over the past 25 years, he added.
He went on to say that his cartoons are in a simple international language.
Derambakhsh, who is known for his ability to find obscure themes for his works, has worked as a cartoonist, a graphic designer, and an illustrator for 49 years.
Derambakhsh, 65, has won many awards at international competitions including the grand prize at an Istanbul competition in 1990, the grand prize at Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun competition in 1998, the grand prize of a contest in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1998, and the grand prize of a Polish anti-war caricature contest in 2002.
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MNA

9.6.08

Similarity: Leite - Rahim Asghari




19th Carioca Humor Exhibition RIO DE JANEIRO/BRAZIL Honorable Mention: Leite (Brazil)

"Low Creativity and High Similarity" by Márcio Leite

Low Criativity and High Similarity
One more similar cartoon is a winner in a traditional contest. It happened in Turkey, in Aydin Dogan. The rewarding of ideas that are not unknown is repeating all over the world and getting more and more frequent. This prejudices the quality of the event, taking the space of participants that send creative and never seen before cartoons, and that could win properly the prizes, including honorable mentions. The cartoonists that decide to join a competitive exhibition should be not only a good drawer or have a good idea, but be, above all, an ethic person and a good researcher. He should know about the results and about the catalogs of contests that are happening. Brazilcartoon bets on the Rahim’s excellent idea of the creation of the committee so the ethic is above humor in competitive exhibitions.
Brazilcartoon is democratic and impartial, therefore we will notify similarity and plagiarism cases, and also give the right of answer to those artists involved.
Márcio Leite
Director of Brazilcartoon