29.10.11

DICACO 2012, the 21sth Daejeon International Cartoon Contest, Korea

The 21sth Daejeon International Cartoon Contest (DICACO 2012) - Korea
The Daejeon City is inviting world cartoonists to take part in DICACO 2012 (the 21sth Daejeon International Cartoon Contest).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Theme section (titled New City & Eco Story) 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, 2012.
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 City Gallery in Oct. 2012.
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) 487-5034 C.P: 82-11-425-6115
E-mail: csanlim@naver.com * http://www.dicaco.com/
http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr/ (all works).

Results 20th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest 2011, Korea

Results DICACO 2011 (20th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest), Korea
Received a couple of days ago the color catalog of DICACO 2011. According to the catalog, the winners of major prizes are:
Grand Prize: Yuriy Kosobukin (Ukraine) (See bottom)
Gold Prize: Jing Shan Li (China)
Silver Prizes: Zaenal Abidin (Indonesia), Gopal Sarkar (India).
Bronze Prizes: Valentin Druzhinin (Russia), Urmas Nemvalts (Estonia), Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan), Muhittin Köroğlu (Turkey).
The catalog is also titled as “World Cartoon Encyclopedia Vol.20”. President of Contest Committee, Dr Cheong San Lim points out that they received 1470 cartoons by 463 cartoonists from 59 nations and regions including Korea and awarded 352 winners this year. The most entries are from the home country with 59 artists and 114 works. Korea is followed by Chinese artists (51), Iran (40), Serbia (38), Turkey (25), and Indonesia (24).
Turkish cartoonists are awarded the following prizes in the contest:
Bronze Prize: Muhittin Köroğlu.
Student Prize: Burhan Demircan.
Student Honorable Mention: Çevik Basmacı.
Best Cartoon Prize: Musa Gümüş, Recep Bayramoğlu, Nuri Bilgin, Kemal Özyurt, Ahmet Ümit Akkoca, Erdoğan Başol, Musa Keklik, Ümit Müfit Dinçay, Ercan Baysal, Mete Ağaoğlu, Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu, Mümin Bayram, Seyit Saatçi.
Honorable Mention: Hayati Kayhan, Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu, İ. Serdar Sayar, Sema Ündeğer, Elsin Altın.
The front cover cartoon is by the Korean student, Han Na Cho: a theme cartoon. The theme this year was “Orient + Occident --> Convergence”. The organisers received 530 theme cartoons and 940 with free theme.
The Jury selected some works first time this year for Achievement Awards also; you can see them through this link.

28.10.11

Kyoto International Cartoon Special Exhibition 2011: "Never giving up: Japan"

Received a couple of days ago the wonderful catalog of Kyoto International Cartoon Special Exhibition 2011 titled "Never giving up: Japan". The exhibition was held from 6th to 11th September in the Kyoto Municipal Museum, Annex. All entry fee will be contributed to victims of earthquake and tsunami. Now they are planning this exhibition in Fukushima.

With only two months' notice and no prizes this time, they still received about 300 cartoons by 127 cartoonists from 41 countries.

Among the artists contributing to the event are Ferhat Demirbaş, Kemal Özyurt, Osman Güral Suroğlu, Erdoğan Başol, Ahmet Ümit Akkoca, Eray Özbek, and Musa Gümüş, from Turkey.

The color catalog consists of 76 pages including the covers and is 18.2 x 25.7 cm in size. The cover cartoon is by John Jensen from UK and has the legend: "I've found our good luck charm. It's not even cracked." (Top above)

Blogger's Choice: G. M. Sudarta (Indonesia).

Deadline in Satyrykon Legnica 2012: February 12

23.10.11

Deadline extended the second time in 2nd Retrofitting Cartoon Festival 2011

With regards to the issue of upgrading and retrofitting of rural housing and related institutes interest in this field specially on cultural issues and a cartoon festivals, we decided to inform the deadline of the Festival to all cartoonist and civil engineers.
All who have not been able to send their artistic works to us or their works have been failed to deliver, can take their time and send their works until 15 Nov, 2011.
Rules of participation & addresses for entry

6.10.11

4th International Humor Exhibition of the Amazon

4º Salão Internacional de Humor da Amazônia.
enviar os trabalhos para o email: biratan.cartoon@gmail.com
Temas Ecológico, Cartum Livre e Caricaturas
até três trabalhos,data até 5 de novembro,
30x40 cm, RGB, JPG, 300 dpi.
Source: humorgrafe

GOOGLE TRANSLATE:

4th International Humor Exhibition of the Amazon
send jobs to the email: biratan.cartoon@gmail.com
Ecological Themes, Free Cartoon and Caricature
up to three works, date until November 5
30x40 cm, RGB, JPG, 300 dpi.
(Info: http://biratancartoon.blogspot.com/)

29.9.11

Invitación​: Presentaci​ón del libro Chumy Chúmez

Results 5th International Cartoon Festival SMILEANAPA 2011

The Winners of the 5th SMEHANAPA (SMILEANAPA) International Cartoon Festival – 2011 / Anapa, Russia
The 5th Festival has attracted more than 850 drawings from 205 cartoonists of 41 countries and in addition 29 young cartoonists (up to 14 years old).

Theme: Laughter – terapy
First Prize – Oleg Loktyev, Russia

Second Prize – Dmitro Skazhenyk, Ukraine

Third Prize - Darko Drljevic, Montenegro
Honorable Diplomas:
Boris Erenburg, Israel
Sergei Tunin, Russia
Valentin Georgiev, Bulgaria
Jia Rui jun, China
Wang Yinxiang, China
Viacheslav Shilov, Russia
Sergey Kokarev, Russia
Gheorghe Matei, Romania
Alfredo Martirena, Cuba.

Theme: Free
First Prize – Sergey Sichenko, Israel

Second Prize – Igor Smirnov, Russia

Third Prize – Alexandr Dubovsky, Ukraine
Honorable Diplomas:
Irien Trendafilov, Bulgaria
Mikhail Larichev, Russia
Valery Momot, Ukraine
Sergey Semendyaev, Ukraine
Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine
Ba Bilig, China
Anton Lobanov, Russia.

Child's section:
Katia Sergeeva, Russia
Wu Qian Yun, China
Zhenia Chernyshev, Russia.

Prize of the General Sponsor (sanatorium “Di Luch”, Anapa):
Vladimir Pron’kin, Russia.

A Favorite Public Award:
Alexander Zotkin, Ukraine.
All awarded cartoons:
http://www.cartoonblues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=9309
This report by:
Vasiliy Alexandrov, Chairman of Jury
Alexander Prohorov, Director.

24.9.11

Sad news: Syriacartoon reports the death of the young cartoonist Rabee Aridi

Death of the young Syrian Arab cartoonist "Rabee Aridi"
The late cartoonist "Aridi" was born in Damascus in 1976.
He studied art through private non-academic sessions.
Aridi also participated in several local and regional art
exhibitions and galleries being awarded many times.
He was a prominent poster designer.
He left us to the other life yesterday, 23rd of September 2011.
Source: syriacartoon

21.9.11

Theme in Brain Sneezing 2011, Slovakia: Ideal and Idealism

Park kultúry a oddychu in Prešov announces the International Cartoon Humour Competition
Brain Sneezing - from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back
Topic 2011: Ideal and idealism
Competition terms:
1. Each author can send maximum 5 original works.
2. The competition is open to everybody and it is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The format of works should not exceed the A4 dimension.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the reverse with the author´s name and full address. Electronic application form needs to be filled in when sending by email.
5. The awarded works will become the property of the organisers.
The exhibition of the works and the announcement of the results will take place in December 2011. The most successful authors will be awarded by the jury as follows:
1st prize 500.00 EUR
2nd prize 300.00 EUR
3rd prize 100.00 EUR
The competition Jury reserves the right to grant other special prizes or not to grant some of the prizes.
The organizers will accept all works that will be delivered by regular mail or email at the address:
PKO Prešov
Mgr. Ladislav Kišelák
Hlavná 50
08001 Prešov
Slovakia
On the envelope with drawings, please, write the competition motto: Kýchanie mozgu / Brain Sneezing
Deadline: 31.10.2011
e-mail : pko.humor@gmail.com
The organizers reserve the right to publish the selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition, with each competitor receiving a catalogue of exhibited works.
WEB: http://kychaniemozgu.sk/index/propositions

15.9.11

6th International Competition in Cartoon Humour for Children and Youth, Praha

DON'T BE BITTER-LOOKING - AND LET'S ENJOY PAINTING
6th International Competition in Cartoon Humour for Children and Youth
Rules of contest:
Theme: Every man is the architect of his own health.
Jokes focused on healthy life style and on illness prevention (Sport, healthy food, toughening up…)
Age divisions:
A: 6 - 11 years
B: 12 - 17 years
Each participant could send maximum 3 cartoons either in black and white or in colour, with or without text.
The size of the cartoon should not exceed A4.
Deadline: 8th October 2011
Participants are requested to envelop information about the author or parents (name, surname, age, address, postcode and phone or email) and send cartoons.
Adresse:
a) by post on the address: DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské nám. 7, 186 00 Praha 8 Czech Republic (with information on the reverse side)
b) by e-mail on the address: netvarte@ddmpraha.cz (each max. size 150 kB, jpeg)
Cartoons without this information will not be accepted as well as works which are not original, made by children and youth or which are copied from another cartoonist.
Participants do not get their works back.
Results and Prizes
The jury is consisted of representatives of organisers and partners. It will evaluate all sent cartoons and pronounce one winner in each age division.
Results will be announced in the transmission of the DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské Spektrum (http://www.ddmpraha.cz/), on websites of the DTA (http://www.radiodomino.cz/), the ČUK (http://www.ceska-karikatura.cz/).
Winners will be informed by post, phone or email.
Prizes will be awarded on 22nd October 2011 at 2 pm on the occasion of opening the exhibition of the best works in the Karlínské Spektrum DDM hl. m. Prahy, Karlínské náměstí 7, Praha 8 - Karlín.
Prizes cannot be sent by post.
Organisers of the competition:
Karlínské Spektrum - Dům dětí a mládeže hl.m.Prahy, http://www.ddmpraha.cz/
(The House of Children and Youth of the capital Prague)
Mgr. Kateřina Klímková, tel. 222 333 835, mail: klimkova@ddmpraha.cz
Česká unie karikaturistů, http://www.ceska-karikatura.cz/
(The Czech Cartoonists' Union – CUK)
Mr. Jaroslav Dostál, tel. 606 241 826, mail: dostalj2@tiscali.cz