5.3.13

Results of the 5th International Fadjr Visual Arts Festival 2013, Iran

Results of the 5th International Fadjr Visual Arts Festival were announced on March 03, 2013, Iran.
In cartoon section of this festival Pouya Abdoli (Top) from Iran was successful to receive the First Prize and Valentin Georgiev from Bulgaria and Doru Axinte from Romania were the Second and Third winners of this Festival.
Also Angel Boligan from Mexico, Hamidreza Mosayebi and Mehdi Azizi from Iran were appreciated.
Source: Iran Cartoon .

2.3.13

Rules for the 7th HumoDÆVA International Cartoon Contest, Deva 2013, Romania

The 7th HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST – Deva 2013, Romania
The event is a part of the 13th edition of Deva annual Humor Festival Liviu Oros.
R U L E S
1. The artworks must be presented in a FREE THEME, under the categories:
A. CARTOON: drawings without any relation to a specific fact;
B. CARICATURE: portrait with anatomic and psychological distortion of well known personalities;
C. STRIP: drawings in sequential panels;
D. HUMOROUS PHOTOS (PICS): good-humored photos with universal theme.
2. The 7th HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST is an open competition for cartoonists all over the world. The Participation on the International Contest is free of charge. For all the cartoonists accepted in the contest, the drawings will be displayed FREE OF CHARGE on HumoDAEVA’s site.
3. You can submit an unlimited number of entries. The Deadline for sending works by e-mail is 30 March 2013 at the e-mail address humodeva@gmail.com .
4. The works must be digitized in 300 DPI resolution, RGB color mode, in JPG format, with the maximum limit of 10 MB. Works should be accompanied by the author’s photo or caricature and a short biography in English, including date of birth, education, profession, citizenship, awards, publications and exhibitions.
5. The decisions of the Jury are final. The Jury will award the following prizes for the best works, no matter the categories:
The FIRST PRIZE _____________ 1000 $ and Special Honor Diploma
The SECOND PRIZE ___________ 500 $ and Special Honor Diploma
The THIRD PRIZE _____________ 300 $ and Special Honor Diploma
10 “Prizes of Excellence” _______ Special Honor Diploma
Other Special Prizes offered by the sponsors may be awarded.
6. The contest results will be announced on the HumoDÆVA 2013 web site in 5 April 2013.
The prizes can be paid in Deva or can be posted to the cost of the receiver. The organizer does not assume any liability regarding taxes or bank charges. The originals of the prize winning works should be sent in maximum two weeks from the results announcement, well wraped and protected against damages. Atention, this is a condition for your money prize sending! The mail adress for sending originals is:
CRISAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, Mihai. Viteazu bl 47, ap 1, 330.091 Deva, jud. Hunedoara, ROMANIA.
7. All selected cartoonists will get, free of charge, a full-color Catalogue of the 2013 HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST in PDF format.
8. The organizers retain the right to use all the drawings received to promote HumoDAEVA competition & Liviu Oros Festival (to make exhibitions in Romania or abroad, to publish them in newspapers, magazines, books, posters, postal cards, internet, multimedia products and in any other form, without any compensation or fee to the authors).
9. For further information: phone 0040 - 721328855, e-mail: humodeva@gmail.com .
10. By submitting the works to The HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST, the artists accept the decisions of the Jury and the rules printed above.
Horia CRISAN, Founder of
Liviu STANILA, Co-founder and Art Director of
The HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST – Deva, Romania
Dear Friend,
Starting with 2001, The HumoDÆVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST has a new dimension – a world wide, permanent one. Any inhabitant of the planet – which has access to the Internet, of course – can see the Exhibitions (sitting comfortably at home, in his armchair), and also the prizes and the selected drawings. Those exhibitions are open non-stop, 7 days a week, from 0 until 24! And there is no entrance fee!
You can view and review at any time your cartoons witch are displayed here, or you can invite your friends to see your works. You can save the works you like, e - mail them to whoever you wish or share them.
For all of this, it’s enough to click HumoDÆVA.
In 2013, as soon as the works arrive at us, we will select and display them in the virtual gallery of HumoDÆVA 2013 . So, you can visit us from time to time, to see if your drawings arrived, how many of them were selected for the contest, and to see if you are one of the winners!

27.2.13

Murat Ahmeti from Kosova wins the International Caricature Web Contest 2013 with theme Yuri Kosobukin

First Prize: Murat Ahmeti - Kosova
Second Prize: Arash Foroughi - Iran
Third Prize: António Santos - Portugal
Special Prize of the “DQ” International Cartoon Web site: Alireza Pakdel - Iran
Special Prize of the “CNC International” Web site: Speeged Sumigit - Indonesia
Honorable Mentions:
Andrés López Sandoval - Colombia
Walter Toscano - Peru
Xiaoqiang Hou - China
Ramiro Medelin - Colombia
J.Bosco Jacó de Azevedo - Brazil.
All winning caricatures on source: cartooncenter .

25.2.13

Call to suggest the theme for the 20th International Exhibition of Arts of Humor

Help us with the theme of the XXth International Exhibition of Arts of Humor.
The International Exhibition of Arts of Humor (formerly International Exhibition of Graphic Humor) is celebrating its 20th edition.
During these 19 exhibition, we did the themes of the university, tolerance, picaresque, North America, third millennium, film, inventions, sports, Quixote, road safety, equality, gender violence, the recycling, education, childhood, motherhood, food and crisis.
On the occasion of this 20th anniversary, we ask help choosing the theme of this year so special.
We hope your suggestions via the web, e-mail, Twitter or Facebook before 10 March. We will choose the most requested item, or we will vote later with several of them.

20.2.13

Results International Exhibition Satyrykon Legnica 2013, Poland

T H E P R O T O C O L
of the jury session of International Exhibition SATYRYKON - Legnica 2013
19 February 2013
Jury represented by:
The chairman: David HUGHES (GB)
Members: Marco DE ANGELIS (I)
Florian Doru CRIHANA (RO)
Bogna OTTO-WĘGRZYN
Elżbieta PIETRASZKO
Grzegorz SZUMOWSKI
Reiner SCHWALME (D)
Zenon ŻYBURTOWICZ
having seen 2.118 works by 585 authors, who come from 53 countries of the world, the Jury has decided to qualify 129 works by 94 authors for the post competition exhibition. The Jury has awarded Grand Prix Satyrykon 2013 and money award in amount of 8,000 PLN to Ms Małgorzata LAZAREK (Poland) for her untitled works (See top).
The Jury has also awarded the following regular prizes:
Section I: j o k e
1st prize, golden medal and money award of PLN 6.000 to Mr Lech FRĄCKOWIAK (Poland) for his work ”Arc 2”
2nd prize, silver medal and money award of PLN 5.500 to Mr Stoyko SIVRILOV (Bulgaria) for his work ”Abroad”
3rd prize, bronze medal and money award of PLN 5.000 to Mr Vladimir ABROIAN (Armenia) for his work ”Psychiatrist”
and the two equal distinction awards of PLN 4.000 each for:
Mr Włodzimierz STASZCZYK (Poland) for his work ”Cosmodrome”
Mr Andrea PECCHI (Italy) for her work ”Siren and tuna”.
Section II: s a t i r e
1st prize, golden medal and money award of PLN 6.000 to Mr Łukasz BOGDAN (Poland) for his work ”Homo laptopus”
2nd prize, silver medal and money award of PLN 5.500 to Mr Jerzy GŁUSZEK (Poland) for his work ”Wanderer”
3rd prize, bronze medal and money award of PLN 5.000 to Ms Klaudia KOST (Poland) for her work ”Primer”
and the two equal distinction awards of PLN 4.000 each for:
Mr Lex DREWIŃSKI (Germany/Poland) for his work ”One, two, three… Depardie!”
Mr Michał TATARKIEWICZ (Poland) for his work „Non Justice”.
That way the protocol was close.
s p e c i a l a w a r d s
The Mayor of Legnica award in amount of PLN 4.000 for Mr Mirosław GRYŃ (Poland) for his work ”Polish Pride”
The Director of Legnica Culture Centre Award in amount of PLN 4.000 for Mr Ghadir VAGHARI SHURRCHEH (Iran) for his untitled work.