X Salón de Humorismo «Santa Clara 2010» - Cuba

X Salón de Humorismo «Santa Clara 2010»
Melaíto, the humorous publication and the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba in Villa Clara (UNEAC) announce the X Humour Salon «Santa Clara 2010" .. an international event that will be dedicated to 42 years of this legendary publication in the Midwest.
Bases:
The topics are free to compete and erotic.
The dimensions of the works could reach up to 25 x 35 cm in maximum size, in any technique and support, including copies of digital works, the third dimension does not exceed 50 x 50 cm on either side.
Each author may submit up to three works per category.
Entries must be sent by post and will be received until November 30, 2010 in:
Casa de la UNEAC Máximo Gómez no. 107 entre Julio Jover y Martí, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
The prizes:
3 prizes will be awarded in each category, and entries that the jury deems appropriate:
For domestic participants:
1st prize: 2000 pesos and diploma
2nd prize: 1300 pesos and diploma
3rd prize: 800 pesos and diploma.
For foreign participants: The winners will be awarded a work of original art on canvas of a famous painter from Villa Clara and diploma, which will send them safely.
The jury will be composed by renowned cartoonists, and their opinion is final. In the days between December 18 and 20, 2010 will be a meeting with prominent cartoonists in the city of Santa Clara. The opening of the exhibition and delivery of awards will be held on December 20 at 3:00 pm at the headquarters of the UNEAC, where we will celebrate 42 years of publication.
For questions on this call, please contact the following address: 40melaito@gmail.com
Organizing Committee.
August 20, 2010
Source: feco-spain
Translation support: Google.

KOMIKAZEN 2010: 6th International Reality Comic Festival

6th International Reality Comic Festival: KOMIKAZEN 2010
Gathering of Authors, workshops and performances from 8th to 10th October
Exhibitions until 7th November 2010
Ravenna – Various venues
http://www.komikazenfestival.org/
The sixth edition of the Komikazen International Reality Comic Festival following tradition presents major previews from internationally accredited authors until now unpublished in Italy, together with the big names of the world of comics who are well-known to the Italian public.
Created with the aim of researching and investigating the relationships between the presentation of reality and graphic literature, Komikazen does not disappoint enthusiasts of the ninth art thirsting for something new and for meaningful face-to-face meetings with the authors. In addition to being occasions for reflecting and gaining deeper insights, there will also be exhibitions of high quality art and workshops with guest authors both for the curious and for professionals.
In the setting of MAR – the city’s Museum of Art – there will be an exhibition with originals from the talented young Frenchman Maximilien Le Roy: just 24 years old, he has already published six volumes, among them the major work dedicated to Nietzsche on the text by the philosopher Michel Onfray. He is also an expert in comic journalism and works with the photographer Maxence Emery, who collaborated with him on the important trilogy on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict (Faire le Mur, Gaza and Hosni). In particular the collective work entitled Gaza, December 2008: uscito per La Boîte à Bulles will be presented to the public. It is a book that uses comic strip, graphical art and political analysis to tell the story of the operation Cast Lead in real time, but also to present the conflict in a new form.
From Spain there will be Pablo Auladell, illustrator of a comic script by Felipe H. Cava, of Soy mi sueño, nomination of the best illustrator award at the Salon de Comic of Barcelona in 2009 and set in the Second World War. It is a work that achieves the poetic level of a metaphor for the rise and fall of a Europe that was staring into the abyss. A master illustrator who visualises with oneiric precision the text of the Spanish scriptwriter already a guest at the first edition of the festival who, with his usual mastery, pits himself against the difficult theme of the recovery of memory. Auladell’s illustrated book Isis, was published in Italy by Orecchio Acerbo.
Instead, guest of honour at the exhibition of the Teatro Rasi is the Italian drawer Igort, who will present for the first time in Italy the storyboard of his new book Quaderni ucraini. Memorie dal tempo dell'URSS, published in Italy by Mondadori.
There will also be an important meeting with an artist who goes beyond the realms of the comic, that is Apostolos Doxiadis, author of the best seller Lo zio Petros e la congettura di Goldbach, but who created the screenplay of Logicomix, another publishing success recently released also in Italy by Guanda.
But Komikazen is a centre, not merely of knowledge, of deeper insights and reflections, but also of production: the participants are young designers from Emilia Romagna, from among whom Komikazen will make its selection with the prize of the publication of a book. For the fourth year a winner will be chosen, giving a designer under 35 the opportunity to produce a book to be published by Comma 22. There will also be the presentation of the volume of the 2009 winner, Pietro Scarnera, that deals with an autobiographical matter of a highly delicate ethical nature, that is his perception of his father's life in a vegetative state from 2003 to 2008. From notebooks full of drawings and sketches produced during those years, he has created a delicate and tormenting volume. After the polemics surrounding the case of Eluana Englaro, the author decided not to remain silent and to tell the story of his own experience.
Scarnera's originals can be seen at Mirada's stand.
In addition to the workshops and the meetings, Komikazen coincides with the city's golden night and so the evening of Saturday 9th offers the possibility of enjoying the city until dawn.
Some information about the festival.
Mirada has organised extensive exhibitions and workshops with comic-strip writers such as Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Aleksandar Zograf, Danijel Zezelj, and many others. It has organised the Komikazen International Reality Comic Festival each year since 2005.
The need to 'tell it as it is' is becoming urgent in an era in which it is becoming ever more difficult to understand whether or not what we are being told is reliable and truthful.
In the world of comics, characterised through antonomasia by the patina of careless people, an imaginative source of the fantastic and absolutely unreal, the trend of real story telling is, when all is said and done, fairly old (obviously in the meaning that this adjective can have when we are speaking of this medium). The autobiographical, memoir oriented, historic and news reporting tendency has always been present and has always been ingrained in many of the grand masters of sequential art.
Komikazen is the promoter of the European and Mediterranean circuit of comic art and research of which are a part: Periscopages Association - Rennes (France), Babel – Athens (Greece), Comica – London (UK), Chili cum Carne - Lisbon (Portugal), Boom Festival – St. Petersburg (Russia) and La Maison du Livre – Beirut (Lebanon).
The following have been guests of Komikazen: Raul, Felipe H. Cava, Khamel Khelif, Tomaz Lavric, Nicole Schulman, Phebe Gloeckner, the Turkish comic writers of the magazine Le Man, Stripburger, Filipe Abranches, Marcos Farrajota, Le Dernier Cri, Ho Che Anderson, Stefano Ricci, Samir Harb, Federico Del Barrio, Nadim Tarazi with the Lebanese comic writers, Anke Feuchtenberger, Giuseppe Palumbo, Vittorio Giardino, Paolo Bacilieri, Dave McKean, Davide Toffolo, Carlos Trillo and Peter Kuper.
For information:
Associazione Mirada
Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna
Tel +39 0544 217359
Mob: +39 3280709837
info@mirada.it
http://www.komikazenfestival.org/

20th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest: DICACO 2011

The 20th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest (DICACO 2011) - Korea
The Daejeon City is inviting world cartoonists to take part in DICACO 2011 (the 20th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Thema section (titled Orient+Occident ---> Convergence) and a Free section.
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297 mm × 420 mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items.(+2 Works)
4. Each entrant should provide title, name, age, address, career, e-mail, and telephone number on reverse.
5. The deadline for entry of original works is Jun. 30, 2011.
6. Entries should be addressed to the Daejean International Cartoon Institute, 450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon, Seoul 302-280, Korea.
7. The most creative cartoon will win the Grand prize of $3,000, Gold prize of $1,000, Silver prize of $500, Bronze prize of $300, and 300 Selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the cartoons at the Daejeon Gallery in Oct. 2011.
9. Submitted cartoons will not be returned, but exhibited forever in Korean public halls, art galleries, & museums.
10. Your cartoon may be used for promotional purposes : cards, posters, catalogs, newspapers, magazine, and books etc.
From Dr.Lim, Cheong San, President of the Daejeon Int’l Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon, Seoul 302-280, Korea
Tel: 82 (42) 255-9944, 487-5034 C.P: 82-11-425-6115
http://www.dicaco.com/ E-mail: dicaco@paran.com
http://www.kongju.ac.kr/ (all works)

Arrived the catalog 19th Daejeon Int'l Cartoon Contest 2010

Today received the catalog DICACO 2010, the 19th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest, South Korea, with theme: Oddity & Monster and Free theme. It is 96 pages including the covers and of size A4 (21x29.7 cm). Both cover cartoons are by Grzegorz Sobczak (Poland).

This year the Grand Prize went to the Chinese artist Xiao Qiang Hou (above) who has rendered Picasso's Guernican figures into the great oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the coast of Florida. Hou's reference pieces are also great. Musa Gumus from Turkey wins the Gold Prize and Silver Prizes go to Jong In Baek (Korea) and Pawel Kuczynski (Poland). Bronze Prizes are won by Masafumi Kikuchi (Japan), Miro Stefanovic (Serbia), Mahmood Azadnia (Iran), and Heung Soo Kim (Korea). Special Prizes by the President of DICACO are given to Jose Garcia (Venezuela), Igor Varchenko (Cyprus), Arif Sutristanto (Indonesia), and Rumen Dragostinov (Bulgaria). See more winners at http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr/content.php?db=menu02_01
In 2010, 504 artists from 58 countries sent in 1579 cartoons and 324 are awarded. The most entrants are from Korea: 86 artists and are followed equally by the Iranian and Turkish artists: 56 cartoonists each. Then comes China with 45 and Serbia with 36 entrants.
56 Turkish artists sent in 198 cartoons and 26 of those cartoonists won prizes as follows:
Gold Prize: Musa Gumus.
Student Special Prize: Esma Balkan.
Student Honorable Mention: Huseyin Mirac Bilgin.
Best Cartoon Prize: Askin Ayrancıoglu, Muhittin Koroglu, Mehmet Tural, Elsin Altin, Mete Agaoglu, Abdullah Ucyildiz, Sait Munzur, Musa Keklik, Oguz Gurel, Ercan Baysal, Kemal Ozyurt, Recep Bayramoglu, Erdogan Basol, Atila Ozer, Oktay Bingol, Mehmet Arslan, Ahmet Umit Akkoca.
Honorable Mention: Nuri Bilgin, I.Serdar Sayar, Umit Mufit Dincay, Kamil Yavuz, Seyit Saatci, Sema Undeger.

Winners in the 22nd Rotary Cartoon Awards 2010

The Rotary Cartoon Awards is designed to recognise the best of Australian and International cartoons with prizes totalling over $10,000. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City the awards raises funds for various Rotary charities and to promote cartooning through the Bunker Cartoon Gallery. All entries are donated to the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City for exhibitions at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery and other galleries in Australia. Congratulations to the winners and merit recipients announced at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery last Saturday night.
POLITICAL
Winner: Pat Campbell
Merit: Mark Lynch
SPORT
Winner: Peter Byrne
Merit: Matt Adams
OPEN THEME
Winner: Hec Goodall
Merit: Mark Lynch
MANGA
Winner: Quentin Jones
COMIC STRIP
Winner: Gary Clark
Merit: Jules Faber
CARICATURE
Winner: Judy Nadin
Merit: Chris Kelly
SPECIAL SUBJECT (INTERNATIONAL)
Winner: Mark Lynch
Merit: Guibao Gai
CARTOON OF THE YEAR
Pat Campbell.
For more information on the Rotary Cartoon Awards visit http://www.rotarycartoonawards.com.au/ .

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look 2010” - Russia

International Cartoon Festival “Clear Look 2010” - Russia
Rules
1.Participants take part in the competition with an original cartoon. 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. Rational use of natural resources. Ecology of Soul”.
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 October 2010 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 - 1000$
The second place - 800$
The third place - 300$
Two special prizes - 150$.
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 booklet 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) November, 1. The exhibition on results of Cartoon Contest will pass at Belgorod children's art school.
17.Deadline for entries is October 1, 2010.
18.Address: P.O. Box 25, Eugene Kramskoy, Festival «Clear Look», Belgorod, 308015 Russia
Rules and Entry Form

Catalog of exhibition in Kosova: "Agim Krasniqi & Guests"

Here is the catalog of the cartoon exhibition in Prishtine, Kosova, which I did participate with some friends as the guests of the Kosovar cartoonist friend Agim Krasniqi. Our cartoons were exhibited along with Krasniqi's work at the Art Gallery (Qafa Complex) between July 01-15, 2010, and they are made into this catalog of 40 pages, covers included, and size 19.5x22.3 cm by the support of Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport of the Republic of Kosova.

Although my friends and I from Turkey were officially invited, we were unfortunately not able to be present at the opening ceremony for not having been sponsored for the flight expenses by any establishment nor by the Association of Cartoonists in Turkey which all of us are members of.

It was very kind of Mr Krasniqi who wanted to share the gallery walls with some artists from friendly countries and had the contribution of the following cartoonists: Ramadan Zaplluzha (Kosova), Bujar Kapexhiu (Albania), Arben Meksi (Albania), Orlis Vathi (Albania), Klodian Bezhani (Albania), Kemal Ozyurt (Turkey), Fahri Eyican (Turkey), Ahmet Umit Akkoca (Turkey), and Umit Mufit Dincay (Turkey).

Each guest is presented in the catalog with a short bio and one of the 2-3 cartoons of his exhibited in the gallery. Art critic Mustafa Ferizi has an enlightening introductory essay in the book which he concludes with a hope that the exhibition next year will have traditional physiognomy and international character.

Selective Cartoon Contest 2010 - Hungary

SELECTIVE CARTOON CONTEST 2010
1.) Theme: I am a selective man!
(Selective waste collection is the process when the used and unneeded, but still recycleable materials are collected separately for industrial use.)
Let’s demonstrate with the help of humour how selective we really are.
Set an example for our children, teach them and draw their attention to how important selective waste collection is!
Protect the environment and save our planet!
2.) The contest is open, so we accept works of both amateurs and professionals from all around the globe.
3.) Deadline for entries: 29 October 2010.
4.) The entries will be judged by a professional jury by 15 November 2010. The jury’s decision is not negotiable.
5.) The selected entries will be exhibited in the hall of Water Management College, Baja. Dr. Zoltán Illés, Secretary of State for Environmental Affairs, will open the exhibition.
6.) We aim to organise an exhibition tour in primary, secondary schools and colleges in Hungary, where we would like to point out the imprtance of selective waste collection to the young.
7.) It folows from 6.) that the submitted cartoons will not be returned!
8.) Participants can submit up to three original cartoons in A/4 or A/3 size, using any technique. Prints of cartoons produced or coloured with software can also be submitted on condition that it has the cartoonist’s original signature and the print’s serial number.
(The copy or digital run-off of the original cartoon is not accepted.)
9.) The participants should write their name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the back of the cartoons.
10.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):
István Kelemen
Baja, Bajza J. u. 19.
6500 Hungary
11.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact:
Phone: +36 20 426 58 82
e-mail: grafikuskelemen@freemail.hu
12.) First prize: 900 USD, maximum: 200,000 HUF.
Three DIPLOMAS.
13.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: http://www.grafikuskelemen.hu/ .
14.) Participants whose works are selected by the jury for the catalogue will receive a free copy via post.
15.) The organiser retains the right to use the cartoons freely (e.g. poster, leaflet, calendar, etc.)
16.) By entering the contest the participant accepts the terms of the contest.

Still fake cartoonet contest & a shame on the editors

The following regulation is from http://www.cartooncenter.net/new_contests.htm edited by Seyran Caferli in Azerbaijan. Still this cartoonet contest is a fake one since there is no responsible person, not a sponsor, nor an establishment behind it. So it aims at cheating honest cartoonists out of their original ideas & this is unacceptable esp. for an editor who has been acting as a jury member in some international cartoon competitions(!?).
Mr Angel Boligan has unveiled another fake cartoonet competition where he himself had been mentioned as the jury member without his knowledge and consent: http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/2010/07/boligan-protests-false-cartoonet.html .
Although it is a known fact that there is a kind of fight against cartoon art of great impetus, some editors of cartoon websites never hesitate to announce whatever info(!?) arrives in their mailboxes. Today (August 9) I see that Tabrizcartoons are also announcing this false cartoonet contest and without any source (!?): http://www.tabrizcartoons.com/en/detail.asp?ID=1666 .
Hope they all will reconsider this piece of news and delete it with a protest against the pirates as the world-famous cartoonist Mr Angel Boligan did honestly; otherwise people would wonder if they are themselves involved in that non-ethical exploitation!

The 1th “WORLD HUMOUR” International Cartoon Competition 2010 - Portugal
Rules:
1) The competition is open to professional and amateur cartoonists from all over the world.
2) Theme:
A-World Heritage
World famous tourist spots in each country
B-Free
3) The maximum number of sent cartoons is 10 .
4) Please attach in .doc format a brief presentation of your artistic activity (surname and first name, address, e-mail address, a photo and your CV)
5) prizes :
1st prize: 3000 euro 2nd prize: 2000 euro 3rd prize: 1000 euro Honorable Mentions
6) The cartoons must be sent at the e-mail address:
world_humour@yahoo.com or humourw@yahoo.com
(300 dpi, 3500 Pixel and JPG format). 7) Deadline: October 20 , 2010.
8) The jury will include representatives from cartoonist and artist, will meet in December 2010.
9) The organizers hold all the rights to publish the cartoons submitted to the contest and use them for promotional purposes: catalogs, posters, cards, books, newspaper, magazine, Internet and new media, etc.