17th International Drawing Contest for Press 2009 Brazil

PORTO ALEGRE's City Hall, through the municipal Office of culture, communicates the interested, the regulation and cronogram of the 17th INTERNATIONAL DRAWING CONTEST FOR PRESS, as it follows: This regulation has the goal to select artist for the 17th INTERNATIONAL DRAWING CONTEST FOR PRESS that will happen from March 19 to April 26, 2009, with the goal to stimulate and divulge, in a wide way, the graphic expression aplied to press, besides giving prizes to each one of the categories described below.
ABOUT THE REGISTRATIONS:
The registration may be done from February 25th to March 6th, 2009, on Av. Presidente João Goulart, 551, Sala 603 -Setor de Mostras e Exposições, CEP 90010-120 - Porto Alegre/RS (Brazil), from Monday to Friday, from 10 to 12h and from 14 to 17h or via e-mail salao.press.portoalegre@gmail.com
To the Works sent by mail or e-mail, the deadline will be also March 06, with the date on the postal stamp of the envelope, and date of the e-mail sent. Works selected or rewarded on previous editions of this contest will not be accepted.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
The constest is destined to professionals and amateurs, on the modalities Cartoon, Comical Cartoon, Caricature, Comics and Editorial Illustration (to newspaper, magazine, book, album cover, cover, etc.).
The registered Works on the modality Editorial Illustration must have been effectively published on the period of march, 2008 to march, 2009, and must be with the original page of the publication, with date and name of the periodic identified. The participants may register 05 (five) Works distributed on any one of the 05 (five) categories.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION OF THE WORKS:
As it is a Contest of Graphic Arts, there will also be considered as originals the printed Works by printers or any other type of image reproduction, but they must be in high quality. However, it is participant's choice to send their originals.
The registered Works must be on the Max format of 42cm x 29,7cm (A3). The registered works on the modality Comics may have four (04) pages of 42cm x 29,7cm (A3). The Works shall be conditioned in cloudy and resistant paper. The Organization Commitee is not responsible for damages to the works and/or not identified. The participants must observe with criteria the following instructions:
-Send, with the Works, the registration form that is on the end of this regulation, with all the items filled in a legible way.
-All the originals must be properly identified with the full name of the author and the modality, written on the back.
By not following this instructions will imply the disqualifications of the works.
ABOUT THE SELECTION:
Porto Alegre's City Hall will assign, through the portaria published on the Diário Oficial de Porto Alegre -DOPA, a Selection Commitee and other rewarding, composed by cartoonists, journalists, graphic artists, and representatives of the Municipal Office of Culture.
The Selection Commitee will have as main criteria the creativity, new idea and plastic quality of the drawings and will select obbeying the following propose:
-All the selected Works will participate on the exposition of the Contest on Espaco Vasco Prado on Usina do Gasometro, Av. Pres. Joao Goulart, 551 Porto Alegre/RS (Brazil), March 19 to April 26, 2009.
The relation of the selected Works will be to the disposal from March 13, 2009.
The rewarded relation will be published on the ocasion of the solemnity of oppening of the Contest. The selected and rewarded relation will be published on DOPA (Diario Oficial de Porto Alegre). About the Judging Commitee that judge the presented Works, in reason of not presenting what was requested, there will be able a administrative resource of 05 (five) week-days, with protocol of the Graphic Art Coordination.
The presented resource will be judge of the Max period of 05 (five) week days.
ABOUT THE REWARDING:
One (01) prize will be given in the value of R$ 1.000,00 (one thousand reais) to each of the 5 categories: Cartoon, Comical Cartoon, Comics and Editorial Illustration. The guiding criteria are, once again, creativity, new Idea and plastic quality of the drawings.
Honorable mentions may be given, according to the decision of the Rewarding Commitee.
Single Paragraph: The rewarded Works will become part of the property of the Municipal Artistic Colection.
The prizes not requested in 90 (ninety) days, counting from the publication of the result, will loose it value.
ABOUT THE DEVOLUTION:
The not-selected Works will be avaliable to devolution from March 23 to March 31, 2009, on the same place and houd of the registration. From that date on we will not hold responsability for the works that are not properly taken.
THERE WILL HAPPEN NO DEVOLUTION BY MAIL OF ANY OF THE WORKS THAT CAME FROM OTHER CITIES.
GENERAL GUIDELINES:
The selected works may be used by the Porto Alegre's City Hall, to divulge the event, with no costs.
The registration on this contest implies the acceptance of this regulation; the cases that will not follow it will be decided by the Organization Commitee, according to the law 8666/93. The Selection and Rewarding Commitees will be soverein on it's decisions. According to the law 8666/93, 9th article, the members of the Selection and Rewarding Commitees, as well as the servers of the Porto Alegre's City Hall, cannot participate on this contest.
The costs of the rewarding of this contest will happen by espesas com as premiacoes do presente concurso correrão pela budgetary endowment 2038339031 and/or 2042-339031. The prizes will be given after the publication of the results and after the resource period. The omissive cases will be decided by the organization commitee.
INFO:
May be gotten on the Municipal Office of Culture
Phone (0XX 51) 32 89 81 27 or (0XX 51) 32 89 8126
Shows and Expositions Sector
salao.press.portoalegre@gmail.com
Regulation and Registration form on the site:
http://www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/smc/cap/editais

CRONOGRAM
Registrations: February 25 to March 6, 2009
Selection Juror: March 11 and 12, 2009
Rewarding Juror: March 13, 2009
Opening of the Contest and publishing day of the awards: March 19, 2009
Visitation: March 19 to April 26, 2009

17th INTERNATIONAL DRAWING CONTEST FOR PRESS
2009 Edition
REGISTRATION FORM
Artist name:
Full address:
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Data e local de nascimento / Date and place of birth:
Title of the work / Category
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Results 8th Tabriz International Cartoon Contest with theme "No War"

Results of 8th Tabriz International Cartoon Contest - "No War"
Theme: NO WAR
Juryboard:
Mikhail Zlatkovsky, Vladimir Kazanevsky, Bayram Hacizadeh.
WINNERS:
1st Winner: Wlodek Wasilewski – Poland (See above)
[2009-02-22 first winner was canceled On the basis of the
8th Tabriz international cartoon contest's jury agreement and their request,
the reward of the first winner was canceled because of having similarity.
Details at: http://www.rahimcartoon.com/en/index.php]
2nd Winner: Dmytro Skazhenyk – Ukraine
3rd Winner: Carlos David Fuentes - Cuba
Special Awards:
Shiva Zamani – Iran
Alessandro Gatto – Italy
Ross Thomson – England
Jovan Prokopljevic – Serbia
Mehmet Kahraman – Turkey
Marcin Bondarowicz – Poland
Aleksei Kivokourtsev – Russia
Valentin Georgiev – Bulgaria
Jesse Ribeiro – Brazil
Sergei Tunin – Russia (See below)

All prize-winning cartoons

2nd International "Olive" Cartoon Contest and Exhibition 2009

MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA + CYPRUS TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION 2nd INTERNATIONAL “OLIVE” CARTOON CONTEST 2009
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:
1-This contest and exhibition is open to all professional and amateur cartoonists of any nationality religion and background…
2-Subjects-Topics: Cartoons against detroying the olive trees, olive, olive industry, olive oil, olive branch, olive tree, cutting olive trees, benefit from olive etc...
3-The minimum and maximum sizes of each cartoon to be submitted must be A4 and A3. Cartoons can be drawn in any colour… There shall be no frame nor any bandages around the cartoons…
4-The cartoons must be original... Not photocopies...
5-The cartoons submitted to the contest which will be pre-elected will be put and exhibited on a web page for the attention and objection of international cartoon associations to overcome copying and steeling… Any cartoon which is copied, stolen or awarded in other cartoon contest will be disqualified…
6-All participants are allowed to submit maximum two cartoons… Name, surname, address, e-mail and telephone numbers of the participants must be written at the back of each cartoon… A short resume and photograph must also be attached…
7-All the cartoons must reach to the specified addresss till 01 JUNE 2009… The cartoonists themselves will be responsible from all losses, delays and damages…
8-Being publicated or not is not important for the cartoons… The important thing is that they should not be awarded in any contest…
9-All cartoons eligible for an award or not shall not be returned and shall be stored in archive of the "Cyprus Inernational Catoon Museum."
10-Besides those cartoons which will be awarded, all the cartoons approved by the selection committee will be pubicated in an album and exhibited in Kyrenia Village during the “8th International Olive Festival”.
11-The result of the contest will be announced in local newspapers…
* The transfer and accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win the first three awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
* Only the accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win particular/distinctive awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
AWARDS:
1st Prize: 1.500 Euro+Gold Medal...
2nd Prize: 1.000 Euro+ Silver Medal...
3th Prize: 750 Euro+Bronz Medal...
10 or 20 person “Special Prize” (Bronz Medal)
ADDRESS:
KIBRIS TURK KARIKATURCULER DERNEGI (2. ULUSLARARASI "ZEYTİN” KARİKATÜR YARIŞMASI) POSTA KUTUSU: 87., LEFKOŞA-KUZEY KIBRIS (VIA TURKEY)

Results of the Competition KIKS III "ZIKISON 2008"

RESULTS: PRIZES in "KIKS ZIKISON" 2008
We are introducing the prize-winning artists whose works have arrived to
The Competition KIKS III "ZIKISON 2008"
of the Caricature and the Short Alternative Comic Strip:
1.The Portrait Caricature "ZIKISON 2008";
First Prize: Phei Cheng - CHINA & Raul Alfonso Grisales GUAICO – COLOMBIA (See above);
Second Prize: Cival Einstein - BRAZIL;
Third Prize: Gheorghe Matei – ROMANIA;
2.The Caricature Without Words - Free Form;
First Prize: Ben Heine – BELGIUM;
Second Prize: Veselin Zidarov - BULGARIA;
Third Prize: Ismail Kar – TURKEY;
3.The Short Alternative Comic Strip - Free Form;
First Prize: Bira Dantas – BRAZIL;
Second Prize: Oguz Gurel – TURKEY (See below);
Third Prize: Goran Ćelicanin Čelik – SERBIA;
ZIKISON 2008 Special Diploma:
Seyran Caferli - AZERBAIJAN;
Valentin Georgiev - BULGARIA
Zhu Zizun – CHINA;
Yuriy Kosobukin – UKRAINE;
Majed Badra - PALESTINE;
Slobodan Srdić – SERBIA.

See all prize-winning artwork at pages:
http://www.zikison.net/zikison34_files/zikison34.htm http://www.zikison.net/zikison34page2_files/zikison34page2.htm

Valentine's Day Red Cross Bushfire Appeal

In the aftermath of the Victorian bushfires, Sydney-based cartoonist Matthew Martin has come up with a unique way for people to help the bushfire victims.
He has designed and supplied a free image for romantics to print out as a Valentine’s Day card.
He’s suggesting people print out the image, and donate to charity any money they would normally spend on their loved one for Valentine’s Day.
Print out Matthew’s design (see attached), and ring the Australian Red Cross on 1800 811 700 to donate to the bushfire victims.
A big thank you to Matthew for his spirit of humanity.
(This report from: Australian Cartoonists' Association http://www.cartoonists.org.au/)

IV Health and Graphic Humor Contest, on Eating Behavior Disorders

RULES
1.Any professional or amateur artist can participate in this competition.
2.The topic of this contest will be on Eating Behavior Disorders.
3.The participants may submit up to three (3) items to the contest, with the provision that these images have not previously received awards in other contests.
4.The works (only drawings) can be any graphic technique in single A-4 (210 mm x 297 mm) format or proportional size, in Catalan, Spanish or English.
5.All works must be submitted only via e-mail, to info@humorisalutlleida.cat, after being scanned at 300 point resolution in JPG (JPEG) format.
6.The submission deadline is March 30, 2009
7.Works must be accompanied by a file which includes first and last name, address, telephone number and a photograph or caricature of the artist.
8.A prize of 1000 € will be given to the winning application and a second prize of 500 € will also be awarded. The jury panel of may declare that there is no winner.
9.The decision of the jury panel is not subject to appeal.
10.The composition of the jury panel will be made public after the winner is announced.
11.The decision of the jury panel will be communicated to the winner during the week of April 24th, 2009, by e-mail, and will then be published on the website of Humoràlia (http://www.humoralia.cat/) and http://www.humorisalutlleida.cat/ .
12.The first fifty (50) works selected will be exposed at the University of Lleida Medical School during the second half of May, 2009. Furthermore, a catalogmagazine with these works will be published, as well as editions of the posters.
13.The electronic version of the works will be available in a virtual gallery on http://www.humorisalutlleida.cat/ and the Humoràlia website after the competition.
14.The organizers reserve the right to reproduce and distribute the winning entry without express authorization from the author and without further compensation to the artist.
15.The fifty (50) entries published in the final catalog must also be presented on paper.
16.Participating in the competition constitutes acceptance of the contest rules in their entirety and without reservation. Any questions or conflicts will be resolved by the jury panel.
Source: http://feco-spain.blogspot.com/2009/02/iv-concurso-de-humor-grafico-y-salud.html

Call by Marko Ajdaric for Worldwide expo the second Coxias de Caxias - Brazil

Call for Worldwide expo the second Coxias de Caxias - Brazil
Marko Ajdaric, editor of Neorama dos Quadrinhos, the widest 9th art newsletter in the world, at http://www.neorama.com.br/ is already organizing the second Coxias de Caxias [ http://www.comicsblog.it/post/4196/giuseppe-camuncoli-aprira-lincontro-brasiliano-coxias-de-caxias] that will happen in March.
Coxias de Caxias is a kind of comics showroom in Caxias do Sul, the second largest city in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. For the next editions, we are already going to show stuff from 45 different Brazilian comics artists.
As 'Coxias' got excellent answers from many publishing houses and artists, Marko is already organizing the same event (specially on the EXPOSITION part) to be shown in at least 7 cities in Brazil. 4 comics festivals in 4 different countries have already been contacted, and probably the expo will be shown very far away from the place it began.
The intent is to present different possibilities of comics as a medium. We are already receiving material that features artists from 30 different countries. That includes albums, collective magazines, comic books and books about comics. We consider this the best way to popularize our medium: putting people in direct contact with good modern comics. Unhappily, the greatest part of Brazilians know only miantsream comics.
We are pleased to say that we are going to awe everyone with marvelous stuff that comes from 'unsuspected' places like Slovenia, Romania, Chile and Uruguay. Consider that Miriam Katin, Rutu Modan and Shaun Tan come form 'unsuspected' places, too, and you yes, marvelous comics are being produced in the whole world.
We are asking for anyone to send us any kind of comics to be presented at the Coxias de Caxias. We won't only expose hentais or similar stuff. Maybe, as in the case of Roman Tolici, a great surprise we got form Romania, your stuff will be on our worldwide expo, that already includes publications with comics signed by artists like Guy Delisle, Marcel Rujiters, Tony Millionaire, Scott Mc Cloud, Joe Sacco, David Lloyd, Miguelanxo Prado, Carlos Nine, Gradimir Smudja, Aleksandar Zograf, Ruben Sosa, David B., Carlos Trillo, Boilet, Nick Abadzis, Hermann, Max Andersson...
So, get in touch with us, let the good comics find good readers. The contacts are: MSN neoramaqq@hotmail.com Skype: markoajdaric, e-mail ajdaric@uol.com.br
My best regards,
Marko Ajdaric.