24th Rotary Cartoon Award Competition, Australia

The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City invites you to enter . . .
http://www.rotarycartoonawards.com/index.php/entry-form
Theme in the International section:
Living in an "i" World (embracing smart technology)

Violation of the regulations brings disqualification in Satyrykon Legnica 2012

Announcement of Satyrykon Jury verdict change
Legnica Culture Centre would like to inform that there have been noted two cases of serious abuse and violation of the competition regulations relating to works which were awarded by Satyrykon - Legnica 2012 Jury.
The untitled work sent in by Mr Valentin Georgiev, which was awarded Grand Prix, happens to be an almost calque copy of ideas used in previous years by other authors, in works which were awarded at international festivals. The jury and the competition organizers have in harmony agreed to disqualify the work. According to jurors' opinions the work is a case of an unacceptable usage of other people's ideas. Satyrykon organizers remain in complete agreement with the jury views.
Mr Pol Leurs's work ”Blue door”, which was awarded a bronze medal and 3rd prize in section: Joke, has violated point 3 of the competition regulations concerning the participation conditions, which sounds as follows: ”WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the competition SATYRYKON”. As the work has already been awarded in MASTER CUP competition organized in China in 2011., similarly to the first case, the jury has also made a decision to disqualify the work, which has been fully supported by the organizers.
Due to the facts mentioned above, the jury has decided to award Grand Prix to the next pretending work in the competition, that is the untitled work by Mr Grzegorz Szumowski (Top). Such jury decisions have also resulted with some other changes presented below:
3rd prize in section: Joke has been finally awarded to Mr Lex Drewiński for his untitled work. The distinction has been awarded to Mr Alessandro Gatto for his work ”Supreme Bank”. 1st prize in section: Satire goes to Mr Grzegorz Stańczyk for his work ”Hunting”, 2nd to Mr Stanisław Koguciuk for his work ”Poverty-indigence-crisis”, 3rd to Jugoslav Vlahović for his work ”Flower bomb”, and the distinction award goes to Ms Małgorzata Lazarek for her work ”Logo Man”.
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Comment on the Satyrykon jury final verdict
”The art that has no morale loses its sense and power. People's own, unique and inimitable ideas are the essence of any kind of creation. We have awarded the prizes and distinctions trusting in beauty, good and truth. I do still trust in them” - these are the words addressed to Satyrykon by a noble, honest and righteous man, a uniquely talented, fine artist Marek Stanielewicz.
He was one of the jurors of this year's Satyrykon edition, and he has sent those words on hearing the works awarded included the ones that should not have received their prizes. Their authors have acted in an unacceptable way by attempting to deceive the organizers, jurors, fellow artists and the public. They have not made an effort and chosen to be dishonest in order to show their names in spotlights of one of the most important world satirical events which Satyrykon is. There has been no other way of act as to change the verdict and take the awards away from dishonest artists who have not deserved them.
One can feel only sorry that cases like that still happen, and it is really sad that there have been more than just the two revealed after the jury's verdict this year. It is sad that as early as at registration stage, some works sent to Satyrykon happen to be rejected as they should not have been even posted to Legnica. I doubt there is any competition organizer in the world capable of recognizing all such cases. I feel sorry to face that shameless challenge.
Fortunately, it is just a margin. Fortunately, majority of people understand what being honest means. Fortunately, there are people in the world who oppose unfairness and have helped us to reveal such cases and stigmatize them this year. We would like to thank them because, similarly to Marek Stanielewicz, most of all, we believe in beauty, good and truth.
Grzegorz Szczepaniak
Director of Legnica Culture Centre
Source: http://www.satyrykon.pl/en/menu.php?ID=news
Final prize-winning works

Results 2nd International City & Citizen Cartoon Contest 2012, Iran

Results of the 2nd International City & Citizen Cartoon Contest 2012 - Tabriz, Iran
First prize: Sasha Dimitrijevic - Serbia (Top)

Second prize: Mehdi Azizi - Iran

Third prize: Vahideh Fallahi - Iran

Selected Cartoons: Diploma + Memorial Statuette
Yuriy Kosobukin - Ukraine
Mohammad Ali Khalaji - Iran

Ahmet Öztürklevent - Turkey
Amir Dehgan - Iran
Sergey Elkin - Russia.
All prize-winning works on source: rahimcartoon

Grand Prize in Satyrykon Legnica 2012: Valentin Georgiev, Bulgaria

Grand Prize Satyrykon Legnica 2012: Valentin Georgiev
Protocol of Jury + winning works here .
See similars of Grand Prize winning work on karcomics .

New issue: ArteFacto # 49, February 2012

To read the e-magazine in full, click here .

2nd International competition of cartoons "Football unites us" 2012

Football unites us -2
Dear colleague, colleagues.
We invite to participate in a competition.
Report please about our competition to the cartoonists / caricature .
We send you the terms of competition of cartoons to Euro-2012:
(The first competition of caricature passed in 2010)
http://art-krug.com/Content/show/page/konkurs
and http://art-krug.com/News/show
Regards!!!
Organizer of competition:
Valery Krugov, Mikhail Shlafer.

Reply from Mr Seyran Caferli, Cartoon News Center website director

Mr Seyran Caferli, the director of Cartoon News Center website, sent the following message below requesting me to publish it on this blog, caricaturque.
In his message, Mr Caferli writes that the announcement of the International Restaurant Cartoon Contest arrived in his e-mail box sometime ago and he demanded extra info from the organizers while publishing the present info on his website.
Although promised by the organisers, the extra info has not arrived yet, and with the right notice of my previous post yesterday, Mr Caferli says he has deleted the info about the doubtful Restaurant Cartoon Contest from his website.
Many thanks for his concern and kind answer.
Kemal Ozyurt.

Seyran Caferli: Rica ederim
From: Seyran caferli cartooncenter@gmail.com
Date: 22 Feb 2012 19:32
Sayin Kemal Ozyurt,
Azerbaycandan sevgilerimle..
http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Sitenizdeki The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 hakindaki yazinizi ve hakli iradlarinizi okudum.. Bu yarisma benim E-mail adresime gelen duyrulardan biridir ve ben yarismaya sitemde yer verdigimden sonra organizatorlerden bana daha fazla bilgi vermelerini rica etmisdim.. Teesufler ki, onlar detayli bilgileri bana yakin bir zamanda gondereceklerine soz verselerde sonucda bu gunku tarihedek hic bir cevab vermediler.. Sizin sitede yazdiklarinizdan derhal sonra ben hemin yarismanin kosularini web siteden derhal iptal etdim.. ve Sizin hakli iradlariniza gore tesekur ederim Zamaninda bize yardimci oldugunuzdan ve hakli dusuncelerinizden dolayi bir daha tesekur ederim.
Sevgi ve saygilarimla,
Seyran Caferli
Uluslararasi Karikatur Haber Merkezi Web sitesinin direktoru
http://www.cartooncenter.net/
P.S. Degerli Kemal Ozyurt yukaridaki yaziya http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/ Web sitenizde yer vermenizi rica ederim.. Once tesekurler.

XIII International Cartoon Competition "Independence" 2012, Ukraine

Theme: Football
Deadline: 5 May 2012
Source: ecc-kruishoutem

A letter, a blacklist, and a fake competition

From: tawan chuntra tchuntra@yahoo.com
Date: 16 Feb 2012 06:59
Dear kozyurt
I send you the information that the contest that not pay the prize.
Please inform other cartoonists for consideration.
Pease post in your blog, http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/
I won special prize in 39th Skopje 2011,Macedonia, but until now I do not receive the prize anymore. This contest is so fake. Belowing is email that only thing I receive, on Friday, 22 July, 2011 2:20 PM
Regards
Tawan Chuntra

Dear Tawan Chuntra,
Thank you for the participation in the World Gallery of cartoons and congratulations for the award.
The participants who win the Special Award, as you are, are granted with the Special Award Plaque, beside the Catalog (available for all selected participants). We have sent the Catalogs first to all the participants, and afterwards we'll send the Plaque as well.
Sorry for the delay. We are looking forward our future cooperation
Regards from Macedonia,
Mice Jankulovski
Director of OSTEN Skopje.
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Unfortunately, we notice that World Gallery of Cartoons Skopje is among the blacklisted cartoon contests by FECO: In this page you could find contests where the cartoonists rights are not respected because the organisers claim copyrights:
http://www.fecocartoon.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=27&Itemid=42
Of course, there is still hope:
Hopefully these contest rules will change and then, these contests announcements will join the main contest list !
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And some fake cartoon contest news again released by only Mr Seyran Caferli's Cartoon News Centre: The International "Restaurant" Cartoon Contest 2012 !!!
Unfortunately Mr George Licurici re-published the info about that fake competition although with a question mark about the organizer. Somebody (with the e-mail address from China !!!) needs original ideas of you honest cartoonits about food and restaurant to copy from! For what? For nothing!
Serious website editors will not promote that false competition I hope and must protest the person behind it and he is already condemned by many editors and cartoonists for sure indeed.

XIV International Cartoon Contest - Zielona Gora, Poland

XIV International Cartoon Contest - Zielona Gora, Poland - Invitation
The Society of Supporters of Cultural Activities “Debut” and the Voivodeship and Municipal Public
Library in Zielona Góra cordially invite to participate in the XIV Open International Cartoon Contest.
This year theme is PLANE - AIRPORT - FLYING.
Attached are the rules for the Contest and the Entry Form.
Yours Faithfully,
The Debut Society,
dr Andrzej Buck, President.

17th International Cartoon and Graphic humour Contest BOMBUROVA ŠABĽA

Town Brezno
and town cultural centre of Brezno
in co-operation with HLP grafik, s.r.o.
and regional newspaper MY HOREHRONIE announce
XVII. International Cartoon and Graphic humour Contest
BOMBUROVA ŠABĽA (Bombura sword)Cartoonists may use any techniques they like, size A4.
Each cartonist may submit up to 10 cartoons..
Theme: We like animals
Name of the cartoon, first name and surname of the author, address, age, profession
and phone number or email should be written on the back side of each cartoon.
Competition will be devided into two categories according to the age
- first category till 15 and the second category over 15.
Entry deadline is May 10, 2012.
The jury, nominated by the Organizers, will award prizes for the best cartoons in each category.
The winners in the first category will be awarded by gifts
and in the second category they will get financial reward
1st place - 100 €, 2nd place - 65 €, 3rd place - 35 €.
Jury has the right not to award every prize, but they can award „Certificate of Merit“.
The best works will be displayed during a town festival “Days of the town Brezno”.
The opening exhibition and award ceremony with authors participation
will be held on June 2, 2012 in Synagogue, Štúrova 11, Brezno.
The Cartoons will not be returned and organisers reserve the right to publish the works in press or other way.
Results of the competition will be published in regional newspaper MY HOREHRONIE
and other comics journals and newspapers.
Original cartoons should be sent in an envelope marked “Bomburova šabľa”
Address:
Mestské kultúrne stredisko, Švermova 7
97701 Brezno SLOVAKIA
For more information call:
* Mr. Daniel Rakyta
Phone/Fax. No. 00421/48 6113412, 00421 (0)907688058
e-mail: daniel.rakyta@slovanet.sk
* Mr. Peter Zifčák
Phone No. 00421/486115585, 00421(0)908605196
HLP grafik s.r.o. Brezno
* Mr. Ferdinand Hrablay
Phone No. 00421/486113671
e-mail: hlpgrafik@hlpgrafik.sk .

6th International Exhibition of Satirical Graphic Bucovina 2012, Romania

Source: licurici

The 5th International Patio Brasil Environmental Humor Show

The 5th International Patio Brasil Environmental Humor Show
1 THE THEME
As a source of life, water is an indispensable substance to human survival. However, day by day, the future of such precious and finite liquid is becoming unknown. We deliberately waste water, we contaminate and dry out watercourses, and we pollute the seas and the large reservoirs of drinkable water.
According to the United Nations assessment, from now on 15 years, more than half of the world’s population will suffer from the shortage of water. UN data also points out that nowadays, year after year, 1.6 million people or so die because of difficulties in finding water and the lack of proper sanitation.
Nonetheless, against these pessimistic predictions, we live in a world that is more and more aware of the issues. People are valuing more and more this greatly precious liquid, using it more rationally, more thoughtfully and more carefully. Today, we can say the world population has awaken to the cause and we have done so in due time to, who knows, guarantee the future also, of life to the next generations.
The shortage of water in terms of amount and quality is way more real and more true than would have been thought. But so are the awareness, the rationalization and the widespread warning of the issue. What is to set the future of water, is the attitude that everyone is going to undertake from now on.
The 5th International Salon Patio Brasil, on Humor About the Environment - Ecocartoon, wishes to engage in this debate and to help set this discussion clearer, smarter and more creative. So, you are welcome in this mission.
2 The 5th International Patio Brasil Environmental Humor Show - Ecocartoon
The event is a competitive exhibit of humorous drawings, whose main objective is to provoke reflection regarding a specific theme. The tools used shall be Charges, Cartoons, Caricatures and Comic Strips on the theme of The Future of Water.
3 Participation
a) Participation is open to all graphic artists, amateur and professional, Brazilian or foreign.
b) Each contestant may submit a total of two (2) unpublished works. The categories are Charge, Cartoon, Caricature and Comic Strips, which shall compete with each other.
c) By registering, contestants acknowledge being solely responsible for the veracity of the data and authorship of the submitted works, and are subject to civil and criminal action if it is proven, during or after the contest, that the data or author of the submitted work are false.
d) Participation is forbidden to those who are directly associated with this event.
4 Entry Submission
a) Entry submission forms may be obtained at http://www.ecocartoon.com.br/.
b) Entries may be submitted through the website or by mail.
c) Only one (1) entry submission form shall be accepted per participant.
d) Confirmation of entry acceptance shall be made by a confirmation email message.
e) By submitting an entry, participants acknowledge acceptance of this regulation, and all of its terms, as well as the final result of the contest and the subsequent use of the winning entry.
4.1 Online Registration
a) By making the registration, the cartoonist will receive an e-mail password to login ECOCARTOON site. With this password he will be entitled to attach the work(s) desired.
b) The cartoonist is free to register and submit works on different days.
c) Works must be submitted in size A3 (297mm x 420 mm), horizontal or vertical, in JPEG, with at least 300 DPI.
d) The organization is not responsible for the registration or works not received for any technical problems regarding computers, congestion, lack of lines of communication or for any other factor affecting the successful submission of entries at the website of the event.
4.2 Registration by Mail
a) Works must be submitted in size A3 (297mm x 420 mm), horizontal or vertical.
b) Works must be submitted together with the filled out registration form by mail, or delivered directly at the administration of the Pátio Brasil Shopping Mall, Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 7 pm, at the following address: SCS Qd. 07 Bl. A Administração - Bairro: Asa Sul CEP: 70.307-902 Brasília DF, with the name of the event, ECOCARTOON, clearly marked on the envelope or package.
c) Works must be submitted in appropriate packaging, and the organizing committee shall not be held responsible for any damage caused during remittance.
d) The organizing committee shall not be held responsible for entries or works not received due to losses in the mail, postal service workers’ strikes, or for any other reason affecting successful delivery of entries by mail.
5 Use of Entries
a) ALL works entered and submitted to the contest shall become definite property of Condomínio Pátio Brasil Shopping, which shall exercise the exclusive right of ownership to use the work according to its interest, and their authors are not entitled, under any circumstances, to any form of indemnity.
b) After the selection, the selected works shall be exhibited on the premises of the Pátio Brasil Shopping Mall, and posted at the website www.ecocartoon.com.br, and may, together with other participating entries, be submitted to other uses.
c) The organizing committee shall not be held responsible for any damage caused by third parties, when exhibited in public or due to deterioration caused by handling of the work during the event.
6 DEADLINES
a) Entries must be received by 15 April, 2012.
b) Entries will be judged on 15 May, 2012.
c) Exhibition shall take place between the 1st and 30th of June, 2012.
7 JUDGING, SELECTION AND AWARDS
a) The selection and awarding of entries shall be based on creativity, originality and pertinence to the proposed theme and made by a judging committee, whose decisions are final and must be accepted by the participants.
b) The judging commission shall select one hundred (100) works, from the submitted entries, for the exhibition to be held at Pátio Brasil Shopping.
c) Of the one hundred (100) selected works, four (4) works shall be granted awards, three (3) works being chosen by the judging committee, and one (1) work (excluding the three winners) chosen by popular jury, whose decisions are final.
d) In order to promote new values among young cartoonists (under the age of 18), the jury shall select a work to receive the Young Talent trophy, which shall be shown at the exhibit and included in the catalog.
e) The members of the jury shall select 15 works, excluding the three (3) winners, to received certificates of Honorable Mention.
f) Any omissions in the present regulation shall, in a timely manner, be addressed by the judging committee, by referendum at the Pátio Brasil Shopping Mall.
8 PRIZES
a) The selected entries shall be granted the following awards:
1st Place ................................R$ 4,000.00 and trophy;
2nd Place ................................R$ 2,000.00 and trophy;
3rd Place ................................R$ 1,500.00 and trophy;
Winner Popular Jury ......... R$ 750.00 and trophy;
Young Talent ...................... Trophy;
15 Honorable Mentions .......... Certificate.
b) All entries selected for exhibition shall be included in the event catalog.
c) The winners shall be announced on June 1, 2012 at the opening of the exhibition, and at 10 am at the event’s website. Winners shall be informed by telegram and/or phone call/email.
d) Awards shall be given no later than 30 days after disclosure by the shopping mall’s administration or by bank draft if the winner resides outside of Brasília/DF.
Source: http://www.ecocartoon.com.br/eco2012/main.asp

12th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition, Canada

12th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition, Canada
1. The theme for the 12th Competition: Power to the People: Citizens and Social Media
The year 2011 will be remembered for the ways social media — including the use of smart phones, Twitter and Facebook - ignited struggles for democracy across the globe. Images of rage in Tunisia, after a fruit vendor set himself on fire to protest police actions, of police brutality in Egypt's Tahrir Square, and of the dead body of dictator Muammar Gaddafi went "viral" within minutes. "Texting" created "flash mobs" during riots in London, Madrid and Athens. The Internet fueled the Occupy Wall Street movement and protests against electoral fraud in Russia. What is the impact of social media on our world?
2. Prizes: three prizes will be given: a first prize of $1500 plus a Certificate from Canadian UNESCO, a second prize of $750 and a third of $500. All sums are in Canadian dollars. Ten additional cartoons will receive an ‘Award of Excellence,’ Regrettably no financial remuneration accompanies the Awards of Excellence.
3. Only one cartoon will be accepted from each cartoonist. It may be either in color or black and white and must not have won an award.
4. The size of the cartoon should not exceed A4; 21 by 29.2 cm; or 8.50 by 11 inches.
5. The name, address, telephone number and a short biography of the cartoonistmust be included in the submission.
6. The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom shall have the rights to use any of the cartoons entered in the Competition for promotion of our Editorial Cartoon Competition and World Press Freedom Day.
7. The winners of the Cartoon Competition will be announced at the World Press Freedom Day Luncheon held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada on May 3, 2012 as well as being advised by e-mail.
The winner’s names and their cartoons will be posted on the CCWFP website: http://www.ccwpf-cclpm.ca/
8. The winning cartoons will be exhibited at the luncheon.
The deadline for receipt of cartoons is 5 p.m. GMT, Friday, March 30, 2012.
Send submissions by e-mail to : info@ccwpf-cclpm.ca
Cartoons should be in jpeg format at 300 dpi.
Source: bado-badosblog

Invitation to inauguration of exhibition "TurciosAnimal" on February 23, 2012

II International competition of cartoons "Football unites us" 2012

II International competition of cartoons "Football unites us" ,sanctified to realization of Championship of Europe on football in Ukraine and Poland of "EURO-2012"!
Organizers: the International festival of arts the "Gogol-fantasy" (Kherson), International competition of cartoons "Carluka" (Poltava), Kherson artistic museum, Poltava artistic museum, Kharkov society of «Red Cross».
Chairman of judge of competition "Football unites us" is Yuriy Kosobukin (Ukraine). Members of the International judge of competition: O.Dergachov (Canada), M.Zlatkovsky (Russia), J. Pena-Pai (Romania), M.Shlafer (Ukraine), V. Krugov (Ukraine), K.Bashkirov, is Chairman of Kharkov organization of «Red Cross» (Ukraine).
Themes of competition
I. «Football unites us»
II. Favorite footballer of national team on "Euro-2012"
III. Help of volunteers of the organization "the Red cross" on "Euro-2012" .
A prize fund is 12 000 hrn.( 1500 $)
The first place is 5400 hrn. (700$) a statuette is a prize of "Rudyi Panko with the ball"
Second place: 4000 hrn. (500$)
Third place: 2400 hrn. (300$)
12 Diplomas of competition.
Terms of competition
1. On a competition to send сartoons that did not occupy prize places on other competitions. Cartoons that took the prize places on other competitions not examined and taken off from participating in a competition.
2. Technique of execution free. A format of сartoons is in an electronic kind: JPEG (3MВ - 4MВ), 300 dpi. on an address: info@art-krug.com
Inscription to the cartoons: in Ukrainian, Russian or English language: nomination, last name, name of author, contacts, creative biography (at pleasure).
3. In a nomination №2 - to specify what footballer and what national combined team of "EURO-2012" drawn.
4. Terms of realization: From February, 5 to April, 25 is a reception of works in an electronic kind on the web-site of http://www.art-krug.com/ and voting on a web-site in a division "Cartoons". Interesting us opinion, cartoons lovers, that will be taken into account to the judge. A final decision for the selection of cartoons in a final catalogue and determinations of prizewinners belongs to the judge of competition. On May, 1 is a publication on the web-site of list 80-100 cartoons that will enter a catalogue "Football unites us" 2012. On the 10th of May the Authors of cartoons of catalogue of cartoons, send originals(or quality authorial copies, format of А4) and personal photo(format of А6) on an address:
Kherson regional artistic museum, to Director of museum of Dozenko Alina, 73000, Ukraine, Kherson, Lenin Str., 34.
Of May, 20 is announcement of results of competition on the web-site of competition in the division of "News". Till July, 30 of 2012, artists of cartoons that will enter a catalogue will get authorial copies to the prizewinners prizes will be paid.
Presentation of exhibitions, catalogue: May 2012 - Kherson, June 2012, is Poltava.
Position of competition
Any author can become the participant of competition without limitations. The technique of execution is free.
2. Violation of copyrights is not possible!
3. Cartoons must not offend honours and dignities of footballers, trainers, political, national, religious looks. The stages of must not contain violence, cruelty, pornography.
4. In case of violation of Terms and Statute of competition - Cartoons are taken off competition without explanation. Correspondence with authors is conducted only on the pages of official web-site of the International festival of arts "Gogol-fantasy" of info@art-krug.com
5. Sending the cartoons on a competition - the author of cartoons accepts the terms of II of the International competition of cartoons "Football unites us" without exceptions and limitations.
6. In conditions and competition position the changes are possible if they are directed on improvement of the competition
7.Sending on the competition of cartoons- an author automatically accedes to all terms of competition.
8. The cartoons of participants of competition can be used by the organizers of competition for realization of exhibitions, popularization of competition, web-site, festival-arts. The cartoons of winners and students of competition remain in property of organizers of competition.
9.The information to the artists participating in a competition and to the cartoon lovers: in case of obvious repetitions among the works sent on a competition and laid out on a web-site in a division "Cartoons". The acceptance of final decision about a caricature is laid at discretion of judge.
Source: http://art-krug.com/Content/show/page/konkurs

International Return to Home Cartoon Contest 2012, Iran

In support of the "Global March to Jerusalem" and the march of the representatives of various nations towards occupied Palestine's borders, "International Return to Home Cartoon Contest 2012" will be held:
Themes & Subjects:
- Right of the displaced Palestinians to return to their homeland.
- Protest to occupation of the Jerusalem as the holy land of all religions.
Regulation:
- participant can send maximum 5 artworks.
- Sending (Name, family name, post address, Email address and Telephone) of artists Just by word file is necessary.
- The catalogue will be send to the entire artist that their artworks published in the catalogue.
- Artworks must be in 200 dpi by width or length of 2000 pixel by jpg format.
- Subject of [Return to Home] must be mentioned in the send Email.
Prizes:
3 selected works will be awarded for each person: 1000 $ with Honorable mention & Trophy
And 5 selected works will be awarded for each person: Honorable mention & Trophy
Deadline: 30th Apr., 2012 (EXTENDED) 20 May 2012 .
Address for sending artworks: Info@irancartoon.com
Source: irancartoon

International cartoon contest, Ruse, Bulgaria 2012

International cartoon contest, Ruse, Bulgaria 2012
Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations
Organizers:
• European Information Centre Europe Direct Ruse
7000 Ruse, 4 Svoboda sq.
• Ruse Art Gallery
7000 Ruse, 39 Borisova str.
Terms and conditions
Concept:
The aim of the contest is to have a look at Europe’s 2012 theme Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations through the creative insight and interpretation of professional and amateur cartoon artists from all over the world.
2012 is the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. A chance for all of us to reflect on how Europeans are living longer and staying healthier than ever before — and to realize the opportunities that represents.
Active ageing can give the baby-boom generation and tomorrow's older adults the opportunity to:
• stay in the workforce and share their experience
• keep playing an active role in society
• live as healthy and fulfilling lives as possible.
It is also key to maintaining solidarity between generations in societies with rapidly increasing numbers of older people.
The challenge for politicians and stakeholders will be to improve opportunities for active ageing in general and for living independently, acting in areas as diverse as employment, health care, social services, adult learning, volunteering, housing, IT services or transport.
Category:
І. Cartoon;
Terms for participation:
1. The contest is open for professional and amateur cartoon artists over 18 years;
2. Each participant could send up to 3 works /originals/ in A4 or A3 format;
3. Cartoons could be either color or black and white;
4. Deadline for receiving works 15.05.2012 on the following address:
European Information Centre Europe Direct Ruse
(For Cartoon contest)
4 Svoboda sq., p.b. 209
7000 Ruse, Bulgaria
5. Participants should send a short СV, as well as name and family name, titles of the works, postal address, e-mail address and telephone.
6. Jury:
• Ivaylo Tsvetkov – chairperson of FECO for Bulgaria, cartoon artist for newspaper Monitor, newspaper Telegraph and magazine Tema.
• Valentin Georgiev, cartoon artist, illustrator, artist;
• Elena Velikova, director Ruse Art Gallery;
• Representative of EIC Europe Direct Ruse;
• International cartoon artist.
7. Prizes:
І prize of the contest – plaque and diploma;
2 special prizes and diplomas ;
All awarded and selected works will be part of exhibition in Ruse Art Gallery and EIC Europe Direct. Cartoons will not be returned. All cartoons will be included in collection of Europe Direct and will be included in travelling exhibition among Europe Direct Centers in Bulgaria.
8. Postal costs for sending works are covered by participants. There is no fee for participation;
9. Selected and awarded authors will receive electronic catalogue - CD with exhibition.
10. Participation in this contest is considered as author’s agreement with present terms.
Opening of exhibition:
June 2012, 17.30 EET.
Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, 39 Borisova str.
Contacts:
For all questions referring organization and terms of the contest you can write to: info@europedirect-ruse.eu to the Europe Direct Ruse or to valyo1970art@yahoo.com Valentin Georgiev.

Results 1st International Caricature Competition China 2011

金奖 GOLDEN PRIZE :
MACDONALD -- CANADA
银奖 SILVER PRIZE :
CATARINA OLIVEIRA -- PORTUGAL
铜奖 COPPER PRIZE :
OMAR ALBERTO FIGUEROA TURCIOS -- ESPANA
荣誉奖 SPECIAL PRIZES :
SHANKAR PAMARTHY – INDIA
朱少伟 ZHU SHAOWEI – CHINA
FAJAR NURSYAMSUJATI – INDONESIA
ERTAN SERTOZ – TURKEY
RAUL DE LA NUEZ – USA
优秀奖 EXCELLENT PRIZE :
张卫平 ZHANG WEIPING – CHINA
李奎军 LI KUIJUN -- CHINA
郁欣欣 YU XINXIN -- CHINA
薛建 XUE JIAN -- CHINA
贝军 BEI JUN – CHINA
郭冶 GUO YE -- CHINA
李伟 LI WEI -- CHINA
樊旭辉 FAN XUHUI – CHINA
禹天成 YU TIANCHENG -- CHINA
蔡卫东 CAI WEIDONG -- CHINA
赵雪峰 ZHAO XUEFENG – CHINA
熊国昭 XIONG GUOZHAO -- CHINA
韦廷湖 WEI TINGHU -- CHINA
林涛 LIN TAO -- CHINA
庸健 YONG JIAN -- CHINA
IKHSAN DWIONO -- INDONESIA
YUSTINUS ANANG JATMIKO -- INDONESIA
RICARDO CLEMENT ALECUS -- MEXICO
OLEKSY KUSTOVSKY -- UKRAINE
RAUL ALFONSO GRISALES -- COLOMBIA
RICARDO CONTRERAS CORTES -- COLOMBIA
VALENTIN DRUZHININ -- RUSSIA
MARKUS GROLIK -- GERMANY
RAY COSTA -- BRAZIL
NASRIN ABDOSHEYKHI – IRAN
FARKHONDE TORKAMANI – IRAN
ARIF SUTRISTANTO -- INDONESIA
入选 SELECTED :
李润堂 LI RUNTANG – CHINA
吴金鹏 WU JINPENG -- CHINA
王银祥 WANG YINXIANG -- CHINA
林忠业 LIN ZHONGYE -- CHINA
孙宝欣 SUN BAOXIN – CHINA
张学理 ZHANG XUELI -- CHINA
徐铁军 XU TIEJUN -- CHINA
赵勇 ZHAO YONG -- CHINA
李亚 LI YA -- CHINA
李步一 LI BUYI -- CHINA
KHALIL WESAM -- EGYPT
SLOBODAN OBRADOVIC -- SERBIA
SEMERENKO VLADIMIR -- RUSSIA
MATHIJS ANDRE – BELGIUM
HAIDARI NATALIJA -- BELGIUM
RAUL ALFONSO GRISALES -- COLOMBIA
MILENKO KOSANOVIC -- SERBIA
DANIEL CAMPOS -- ARGENTINA
LUC DESCHEEMAEKER -- BELGIUM
VALERIU KURTU -- DEUTSCHLAND
DARKO DRLJEVIC -- MONTENEGRO
KAZANEVSKY VLADIMIR -- UKRAINE
YUNUS ERLANGGA -- INDONESIA
INDRA TRYANA -- INDONESIA
ARIF SUTRISTANTO -- INDONESIA
SUNNERBERG CONSTANTIN -- BELGIUM
OTILIA ELENA BORS -- ROMANIA
ONE ZHAN – INDONESIA
ARTURO MOLERO – SPAIN
ALEXANDER DUBOVSKY -- UKRAINE
郭建永 GUO JIANYONG – CHINA
获铜 HUO TONG – CHINA.
Source: http://www.redmanart.com/do/bencandy.php?fid=5&id=423

MUTUAL CONTEST (comics, il​lustration​s, short animations​)

MUTUAL CONTEST
(comics, il​lustration​s, short animations​)
An anomalous contest!
Here the rules:
http://ilfumettouccide.com/mutual-contest/

Results 13th International Festival of Caricature and Aphorism, Strumica 2012

On the day of 26th of January the international jury of the XIII th International Festival of Caricature and Aphorism , Strumica 2012, with the members set below:
Milan Alasevik - Slovenia - acting as president of the jury
Jordan Pop-Iliev - Macedonia - member
Risto Filcevski – Macedonia - member
Dr. Dimitar Alacki – Macedonia - member
Aleksandar Filev – Macedonia - member
Reviewed the received caricatures and aphorisms at the XIIIth International Festival of Caricature and Aphorism and decided to award the prizes as below:
CARICATURE:
1.Golden Plaque: Yuri Kosobukin - Ukraine
2.Silver Plaque: Erdogan Basol - Turkey
3.Bronze Plaque: Valery Chmiriov – Ukraine.
Award granted by the Organizational Board of Strumica Carnival:
Nikola Angelkovski – Macedonia.
Diploma awarded to:
Constantin Ciousu - Romania
Nikolay Arnaudov - Bulgaria
Leonte Nastase - Romania
Dubovski Aleksandar - Ukraine
Dragomir Dimik - Monte Negro.
APHORISM:
1.Golden Plaque - code “MCM” Milan Milivojeviki – Serbia
2.Silver Plaque - code “Something firmer” Mile Gjorgijoski - Macedonia
3.Bronze Plaque - code “The best” Miroslav Bozhkov – Bulgaria.
Diploma awarded to:
Ljupka Cvetanova - Macedonia
Vasil Tolevski - Macedonia
Atanas Krlevski – Macedonia.
January 2012, Strumica
Milan Alasevik, President of the jury
Marjan Pecev-Zahov, Organizer of the Festival.

Internatio​nal Cartoon Competitio​n "Can you believe it?!"

International Cartoon Competition presented by the Arts and Cultural Center KuK e.V. in cooperation with the Aachen Newspaper Publishing Company and the Städteregion Aachen.
Call for Submissions
Can you believe it?!
They say Mr zu G. actually wrote a part of his dissertation himself! Mr Ch. W. himself paid for and planted a rose bush in his garden. Or maybe not? The Felix Krulls, Münchhausens and two-faced hypocrites populate the parliaments of this world – and this is no new phenomenon.
The list of politician lies seems long. Didn't George W. Bush say: "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction"? Who believed Walter Ulbricht when he said "No one intends to erect a wall"? Did anyone believe Bill Clinton's statement: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski"? Didn't the Hungarian Prime Minister admit that he lied to the people morning, noon and night during the election campaign? Shouldn't Putin's and Berlusconi's noses be infinitely long?
Does what was promised before the election still hold afterwards? Why should it? Is Truth a rare good in politics? Or is the lie in itself taken for granted in politics? And if not, then why not?
Telling lies in politics is a broad field – but it is also a humorous field, which is why we have chosen it to be the theme of our 6th International Cartoon Competition.
How can light be brought into the darkness of the politician's lie? Who can uncover, debunk, explain? Isn't it all laughable?
The cartoonists and caricaturists of the world are called up to do "enlightenment work". Wanted are the funniest cartoons, the sharpest caricatures and gladly also those critical drawings of and about lying politicians and about Truth in politics.
Participation:
All professional and amateur cartoonists 18 and over can partipate in this international contest..
Submissions:
Maximum 5 cartoons
Original drawings or signed prints, no copies
Black-white or colour
Format: DIN A4 bis DIN A3 (unframed, no matte)
Year of composition: 2009-2012
Provide the artist's full name on the back of the drawing, including if applicable the drawer's artistic pseudonym and the title of the work.
The completed entry form, a photograph or portrait caricature (electronic submissions at least 800 pixel/800 kB, jpg format) and a brief CV (max. 280 characters) for the catalog should be submitted with the drawings. If available, the print data of the entries are welcome for the catalog.
Jury:
The jury will make selections for the exhibition and catalog, and award the prizes from the pool of submissions. The jury includes among others Prof. Bernd Mathieu (Editor-in-Chief of the Aachen Newspaper / Aachen News), Martin Sonntag (Caricatura Kassell), and Nina Mika-Helfmeier (Cultural Affairs director).
Exhibition:
This year the exhibition will take place from 5 May to 1 July 2012. The awards ceremony and the opening of the exhibition is on 5 May 2012 at 16:00 in the Kunst and Kultur Center of the Städteregion Aachen, Austraße 9, Monschau.
In total up to 2 x 45 works plus extensions will be shown.
Catalog:
As in every year, the KuK e.V. will publish a catalog in collaboration with the Aachen Newspaper Publishing Company. Artists included in the catalog will each receive one copy.
Prizes:
1st Place 2500.00 EUR
2nd Place 2000.00 EUR
3rd Place 1000.00 EUR
4th-6th Places 500.00 EUR each
Return policy:
All work that does not become property of the Kuk e.V. will be returned at the organisation’s expense. The returns will be prepared and carried out with the appropriate care.
Entry forms available at:
http://www.staedteregion-aachen.de/
http://www.kuk-monschau.de/
http://www.cartoonfestival.az-web.de/
All prize-winning work becomes the property of the Kuk e.V. In addition, the organisation retains the right to keep one submission from each participant whose work is exhibited. These drawings will be auctioned at the end of the year. The proceeds will be used to support cultural projects in schools within the county. Participants are requested to identify which of the submitted drawings the organisation may keep.
Submission deadline: 10 April 2012
Organiser:
Städteregion Aachen
S 16 Staff position for culture, empirical research and gender equality
Dr. Nina Mika-Helfmeier
Raum B025
Zollernstraße 10
52070 Aachen
Telefon 0241-51982664
Fax 0241-519882664
Nina.Mika-Helfmeier@staedteregion-aachen.de
With the friendly support of:
Aachen Newspaper Publishing Company,
KuK Kunst und Kulturzentrum Aachen,
The Städteregion Aachen
Sparkasse Bank Aachen
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Karin Handrich
StädteRegion Aachen
S 16 Stabsstelle Kultur, Empirische Forschung und Gleichstellung
Raum F 403, Zollernstraße 20, 52070 Aachen
Tel.: +49(241)51982663
Fax: +49(241)519882663
Mail: Karin.Handrich@staedteregion-aachen.de