8.12.11

2nd Selective Cartoon Contest Baja 2012, Hungary

II. SELECTIVE CARTOON CONTEST 2012, HUNGARY
1.) I am a selective man!
Theme: promoting selective waste collection.
We can help save our planet for the next generation by selectively collect used and unneeded, but still recycleable materials. Although selective waste collection is not a problem any more, it still has not become an integral part of our everyday life. Let’s use the humour of cartoons to show some of the absurdities and contradictions of our lives and let’s have a good laugh at our own peccadillos. Humour may help us and our children better understand our planet’s needs.
2.) The contest is open, so we accept works of both amateurs and professionals from all around the globe.
3.) Deadline for entries: 28 February 2012.
4.) The entries will be judged by a professional jury. The jury’s decision is not negotiable.
5.) 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. The first exhibition is scheduled in Baja in March 2012.
6.) It folows from 5.) that the submitted cartoons will not be returned!
7.) 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.
8.) The participants should write their name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the back of the cartoons.
9.) Postal address for entries (please note the order!):
István Kelemen
Baja
Bajza J. u. 19.
6500
Hungary

10.) For information or enquiries about the competition contact:
Phone: +36 20 426 58 82
e-mail: grafikuskelemen@freemail.hu
11) First prize: HUF 200,000, gross
Three DIPLOMAS
12.) For the list and works of participants and for any other information visit: http://www.grafikuskelemen.hu/ .
13.) Participants whose works are selected by the jury for the catalogue will receive a free copy of it via post.
14.) The organiser retains the right to use the cartoons freely (e.g. poster, leaflet, calendar, etc.)
15.) By entering the contest the participant accepts the terms of the contest.
Source: grafikuskelemen

Golden Hat International Cartoon Contest Knokke-Heist 2012, Belgium

Golden Hat International Cartoon Contest Knokke-Heist 2012, Belgium
Rules
1. Participation
All persons over 18 years of age are eligible to participate in this international contest. Participants shall agree to the terms and conditions of the rules and the decisions of the jury. Belgian law governing withholding tax on prizes won by foreign participants applies. Participation is free of charge. Deadline:15/01/2012.
2. Definition
A cartoon is a humorous drawing. This may be a caricature of a famous person, a parody of a real situation, or simply a picture of a funny situation. The cartoon may consist of one image or take the form of a short comic strip. The cartoon may be static (drawn) or moving (animated using a computer).
3. Theme
Participants are free to choose the theme of their entries.
4. Entries
A. Drawn cartoons:
maximum 5 entries.
What? Black-and-white or colour. The cartoons must not contain text.
Drawings may also be made digitally and submitted on CD-ROM or by e-mail to cartoonfestival@knokke-heist.be. They must not have been exhibited in Belgium or awarded in other countries. They must be packaged flat and not folded.
How? Dimensions (min. 21 x 30 cm) or (max. 30 x 42 cm). If entries are sent on CD-ROM, the cartoon must be no larger than A4 format, in JPEG and TIFF format with a resolution of 300 DPI. Works under glass, framed or in other materials will not be accepted.
B. Animated, moving cartoons: maximum 3 animated cartoons, with a maximum length of 3 minutes per animated cartoon.
How? These animations can be sent on DVD or by wetransfer.com (max. 2 GB).
File: Quicktime film (mov), Codec: H.264, Frame rate: 24, 25 or 30, Data Rate: 5000 kbps, Resolution: 1920x1080, Progressive. We accept no entries by URL (YouTube, MySpace, Google Video or QuickTime uploads). No demo versions: the complete cartoon must be submitted. The works must not contain text.
C. The entrant remains responsible for the originality of his or her work.
Any disputes or claims concerning all forms of plagiarism and the like are the responsibility of the entrant.
5. Entry form: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3302436/Cartoon%202012/KH_inschrijving_cartoon_2012.pdf
Your participation is valid only if your date of birth has been filled in and the form has been signed. Your last name, first name and address must appear on the back of each cartoon. Submission is at the expense of the participants.
6. Ownership rights
By participating, entrants grant the organizing body the right to use their entries as advertising for the “International Cartoon Festival” and the seaside resort Knokke-Heist (e.g. as cartoon book, catalogue, advertising in the press and other media, separate promotional printed works such as posters, leaflets, etc., promotional gifts by the city council and/or cartoon festival organizers, calendar).
7. Jury
A jury will make a selection from the entries for the exhibition and will declare the prize winners.
8. Ownership by organizing body
All submitted works shall become the property of the organizing body.
9. Cartoon book
In collaboration with Davidsfonds Leuven, a cartoon book will be published, subject to budgetary and technical constraints. Selected participants will be entitled to one copy.
Prizes
Golden Hat 3.500 €*
Silver Hat 2.000 €*
Bronze Hat 1.250 €*
Knack cartoon Award 500 €
Publics Prize 500 €
* + fligth and hotel in Knokke-Heist during openingsweekend.
Produktie:
Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist vzw
Meerlaan 32 , B-8300 Knokke-Heist

Tel: 00-32-50-630.430 Fax:00-32-50-630.429
e-mail: cartoonfestival@knokke-heist.be
http://www.cartoonfestival.be/
Exhibition: 15.07.2012 - 18.09.2012
Opening: 14 july 2012 - Deadline: 15.01.2012
Source: http://www.cartoonfestival.be/cartoon/

3.12.11

International Cartoon Competition: The Ball is in Play 2012, Poland

INTERNATIONAL CARTOON COMPETITION
THE BALL IS IN PLAY
RULES
Organiser: Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Warsaw
Main Partner: Media Corporation Sp. z o.o.
Partners:
SPAK Association of Polish Cartoonists
LSMDK “Debut” in Zielona Góra.
Sport is an integral part of social life, and a means of conveying many ideas, such as: noble competition, striving for perfection, overcoming one’s weakness, or crossing boundaries that no one has crossed yet. In modern societies, sportspersons are models to emulate, icons of success, celebrities – primarily because they are identified with the ideas that encapsulate the essence of sport.
Football is one of the most popular sport disciplines, an encounter of two teams that provokes incredibly powerful emotions. On the pitch, we have the opportunity to observe various attitudes, from those noblest to those amazingly brutal and reprehensible. Fans and players experience the joy of victory or taste the bitterness of defeat. Emotions, euphoria, despair can be unbelievably strong.
The organisers of the Competition hope to see artists’ reflections on the role of football in social life, its lights and shadows, laughter and tears, the emotions aroused by the leather ball with a pattern of black-and –white pentagons... Who else but the cartoonists could and should comment upon, and commemorate, this discipline of human activity.
1. The topic of the International Cartoon Competition “The Ball is in Play” is football. The Competition is organised to mark the UEFA European Football Championship – Euro 2012, held in Poland and Ukraine.
2. The Competition will be announced on 1st December 2012 on the internet sites of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art and of the partners of the Competition. Invitations to participate in the competition will be sent by email, together with the rules of the Competition and the entry form, to individual artists as well as Polish and international artistic associations and organisations.
3. The competition is open to all artists working with caricature, cartoon, satirical drawing, as well as to students of fine arts schools – institutions of higher artistic education.
4. Competition entries will be considered and selected in two stages:
Stage One: competition entries will be forwarded to the organisers, exclusively by electronic mail or on electronic carriers, in jpeg format, resolution 300 dpi, the longer edge – not longer than 1500 pixels. Each participant may submit up to 5 works. Entries must be sent by 10th February 2012 to the following address:
muzeumkarykatury@poczta.wp.pl
Stage Two: From among the submitted entries, the Competition Jury will select approx. 300 works. A list of the selected entries will be published at http://www.muzeumkarykatury.pl/. Their Authors will be notified of the selection by email or by telephone.
5. The Authors of the selected works are obliged to send in the originals, created by means of any drawing, painting or other graphic technique (including collage and computer graphics), in a format not larger than A3. Works created on a computer must be signed in hand. Photocopies will not be accepted. The works, marked with the note “The Ball is in Play”, are to be sent at the participant’s own expense or delivered in person by 5th March 2012 to the following address:
Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art,
ul. Kozia 11, 00-070 Warszawa, Poland.
Each work needs to be signed on the back with the Author’s name and surname, as well as a title, if applicable.
With the works, participants must attach the completed and signed registration form.
Organisers shall not bear any responsibility for possible damage to the works during delivery.
PRIZES
1. The works will be assessed by a Jury consisting of eminent cartoon artists and representatives of the organisers.
2. The Jury will select the works for the post-competition exhibition and grant the following
Regular Prizes:
Grand Prix – 10, 000 PLN, 1st prize – 7, 000 PLN, 2nd prize – 5,000 PLN, 3rd prize – 3,000 PLN and the prize for the best work by a participant under the age of 30 - 2,000 PLN
Tax will be deduced from the prizes in accordance with the Polish tax law.
3. The prize money may be collected by the candidate personally at the award ceremony or at the office of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Warsaw, or by providing the organisers with the number of the bank account to which the award is to be transferred.
4. The Jury reserves the right to divide the Regular Prizes in a different way, change their value or refrain from granting prizes. The rulings of the Jury are final and indisputable.
5. Apart from Regular Prizes, special awards may be funded by other institutions and by sponsors.
FINAL PROVISIONS
1. Entering the competition is tantamount to granting permission for participation in the post-competition exhibition, and for reproducing the works for the publicity purposes of that exhibition by means of all media, in an indefinite number of copies, without any remuneration, as well as to printing the works in publications accompanying the post-competition exhibition. Copies of the works may be presented in the form of touring exhibitions held after the close of the post-competition exhibition outside the seat of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Warsaw, in Poland and abroad.
2. The awarded works become the exclusive property of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Warsaw, together with copyright and property rights allowing the Museum to use and freely dispose of the works, unlimited in time and territory, for purposes related to the promotion of the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art.
3. The Museum also reserves the right to select and include in its collection one work by each Author presented at the post-competition exhibition. The works awarded by other institutions and sponsors become their respective property with regard to copyright and property rights to those works, allowing them to use and freely dispose of the works, unlimited in time and territory.
4. Authors of the works selected for the post-competition exhibition will receive the exhibition catalogue. Winners of the competition will be invited to the award ceremony.
5. Submitting works for the competition (in Stage One – in electronic form, and in Stage Two – the originals) together with the registration form is tantamount to the Author’s acceptance of these rules and permission to present the submitted data publicly.
CALENDAR
Deadline for submission of the works in electronic form – Stage One – by 10th February 2012
Work selection for Stage Two – by 15th February 2012
Deadline for submission of the originals of works selected for Stage Two – by 5th March 2012
Planned date for the session of the Jury – 15th March 2012
Announcement of the Competition results – 20th May 2012
Opening of the post-competition exhibition in the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art in Warsaw and the ceremony of presenting awards to the winners – late May 2012.
Rules & Entry Form

16th edition of Fax for Peace, Fax for Tolerance, Italy, 2012

Download the regulation in languages in PDF
Deadline: 29 February 2012

1.12.11

Elsa Piedad Tobon Ramirez: Feliz navidad

Results 2nd International Cartoon Festival of Retrofitting 2011, Iran

Exhibition of some selected works between 30 Nov - 6 Dec 2011 in
Tehran House of Cartoon, No. 60, Golnabi (ketabi) St., Shariati Ave.
Tehran, I.R.Iran
Tel/Fax: (+98 21) 22868600
WINNERS
First Winner: Galym Bayrambayev (Kazakhstan)
Second Winner: Mehdi Azizi (Iran)
Third Winner: Naser Moghaddam (Iran).
See winning works & list of selected artists on
http://www.retrofittingcartoon.ir/persian/index.php

29.11.11

40th World Gallery of Cartoons – Skopje 2012, Republic of Macedonia

Dear friends Cartoonists,
It is time to celebrate your works, because the cartoons have a power!
You are invited to join the 40.World Gallery of Cartoons – Skopje 2012, awarding:
GRAND PRIX for Life Achievement (5000$)
FIRST PRIZE for Caricature (1000$)
FIRST PRIZE for Satiric Drawing (1000$)
FIRST PRIZE for Comics (1000$)
10 SPECIAL PRIZES.
Click Here to Participate.
The application deadline is January 15th 2012.
The pre-selection will be made and the selected authors will be invited to provide the original works.
The deadline for sending the original works is February 15th 2012.
Don’t forget to forward this information to your friends.
World Gallery of Cartoons
8 Udarna Brigada 2, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel: +389 2 3213665
Mobile: +389 71 225950
E-mail: osten@t-home.mk
WEB: http://www.osten.com.mk/

27.11.11

Women on the World International Cartoon Competition 2012, Australia

The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City invites you to enter . . .
The inaugural 2012
http://www.rotarycartoonawards.com.au/ ; http://www.coffscityrotary.org.au/
Rules & Entry Conditions
1. Women on the World International Cartoon Competition is open to all women cartoon artists worldwide over the age of 18 years. Entries should convey a woman's social comment on world issues today.
2. There are no restrictions on the number of entries submitted and entries may be either previously published or unpublished. Entries must not be able to be deemed offensive to others.
3. Entrants are asked to title their own work. All titles and captions are to be in English.
4. Entries must not be framed.
5. Entries may either be sent via post, digitally via email, or hand delivered to the Bunker Cartoon Gallery, Coffs Harbour. The closing date is Friday 24th February 2012.
6. Hardcopy entries: All entries submitted in hardcopy by post or delivered must be originals, either in colour or black and white. Entries must be clearly labelled with the entrant’s name, address, telephone number and email address. This information must be written in pencil in the top left hand corner on the reverse of the work, beneath the title of the work.
7. Digital entries: All entries must be sent in 300 dpi, JPEG format, and may be either A4 (210 mm x 197 mm) or A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) in either colour or black and white. Entrants are asked to specify the size for printing. Entries should be sent as an attachment to an email and a completed entry form also attached.
8. In respect of each entry the entrant warrants that the entry is the entrant’s own original work and further that the entrant is the owner of the copyright of that work and acknowledges and agrees that upon the making of the entry the entrant assigns absolutely that copyright to the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City Inc., (“the Rotary Club).The Rotary Club will observe the entrant’s moral rights in the work.
9. The WOW Committee will appoint suitable judges for the Awards. Judges will not be eligible to enter the competition. The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Awards: The entry judged to be the winning entry will receive prize money of $1,000 and a medallion. Two merit awards will also be awarded each to the value of $750 each.
10. Winners of the 2012 competition will be announced in Coffs Harbour on International Womens Day, Thursday, March 8th 2012.
11. Entry to the Awards will be taken as an agreement to accept these rules and entry conditions.
Complete Rules & Entry Form: http://www.rotarycartoonawards.com/index.php/wow2
Send entries to:
WoW Cartoon Awards
Bunker Cartoon Gallery
Locked Bag 155
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450 Australia.

Or emailed to: info@rotarycartoonawards.com.au .

26.11.11

1st International Competition of Graphical Humour "Cultural Correspondences"

I INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF GRAPHICAL HUMOUR “CULTURAL CORRESPONDENCES”.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The publisher SAURE announces the 1st GRAPHICAL HUMOUR competition entitled “CULTURAL CORRESPONDENCES”, which will be international in scope.
The cartoonists will carry out work on the value of cultural correspondences: the discovery of other traditions, other cultures, other languages that enrich our vision of the world and life. The capacity to know how to appreciate the dialogue between so-called western knowledge and traditional millennial knowledge. Having eyes for those who are different, having ears to listen to their voices, their melodies, songs, stories... keeping ties and admiration for cultural exchanges.
1. CONTESTANTS
All persons over 14 years of age may take part. Each participant can submit a maximum of three works.
2. MODALITY AND FORMAT
The scenes and characters must be of their own creation and be unpublished. The works may be black and white or colour. The works shall have an extension of a single page that shall not exceed the 800 x 600 pixel format, with a minimum resolution of 72 pixels per inch.
3. LANGUAGES
The works must be written in Spanish or French. Wordless humorous scenes by artists from other language backgrounds are also admitted.
4. PRESENTATION
Competitors must register or identify themselves on the website and enter their work in JPG format in the field provided for this purpose.
5. PRESENTATION LOCATION AND DEADLINE
The works must be sent exclusively through the website up until 12th October 2012.
6. VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
With the works submitted and subsequently chosen by the jury, the publisher plans to make them available to the public. The exhibition of the works will not entitle the authors of the illustrations to pecuniary rights.
7. PRIZES
Six prizes will be awarded in the competition:
Over 18s: 1st prize: 500 Euros. Basic tax will be deducted before proceeding to make the payment. 2nd prize: 3 comics. 3rd prize: 2 comics; with diploma.
Under 18s (from 14 to 17): 1st prize: 3 comics, 2nd prize: 2 comics, 3rd prize: 1 comic, from the publisher's collection with a diploma.
8. JURY
A qualified jury will choose the best works. The prizes will be made known within a month and a half after the end of the competition. If the jury decides so, the prizes may be declared void, and their decision is final.
9. ADDITIONAL CLAUSE
Participation in the competition implies acceptance of these terms and conditions.
Source: http://saure.3emultimedia.net/Concursos/

22.11.11

13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature, Strumica 2012

13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature - Strumica 2012
C O N T E S T
Theme :
C A R N I V A L – E R O T I C A
Aphorism:
*In this category each author can participate with maximum of 10 aphorisms, printed in three copies, completed with code and particulars about the author, and set in sealed envelope.
*The authors are allowed to participate with more works, each as group of 10(ten) aphorisms and marked with particular code.
Caricature:
*In this category, the authors can participate and send 3 caricatures, maximum.
The technique is on their own choice, and dimensions A/4.
*Particulars about the authors should be written at the back side of the work.
Contest due date:
The works will be accepted up to: January 16, 2012, at latest.
Awards:
*Three main prizes will be awarded: Golden, Silver and Bronze Plaque.
*The Organizer retains the right to award some additional prizes.
Address:
*The works should be sent to:
NUCK "Anton Panov"
Blvd. “Goce Delcev” bb
2400 Strumica, R Macedonia

with note: To the Festival of aphorism and Caricature.
Copyrights:
*The works received ,remain in property of the Organizer and the author, and they have the right to its public presentation, catalogue prepare or other publication.
Evaluation:
*The works received in due time will be reviewed and evaluated by competent jury commission.
*The presentation of the works –exhibition and the
Reward Ceremony will come to: February 27, 2012.
Contact -Further information
*Tel: ++389 (0)34 322 182
*E-mail: trimerotikon@yahoo.com