20.12.15

Catalog of the 1st International Cartoon Gathering, Cairo, Egypt 2014

Received a couple of days ago the full-color catalog of the 1st International Cartoon Gathering, Cairo, Egypt 2014. The themes of the event were "Egypt in the Eyes of the Cartoonists" and "Free theme".
The catalog is 20.7 x 20.7 cm in size and has 72 pages. The list of 306 participants from 64 countries and the photo of the inauguration of the exhibition is also included. 228 works by world cartoonists are published in the catalog. The front cover cartoon is one of the works by Vladimir Kazanevsky from Ukraine and the back cover one is by Sun Shen Ying, the artist from China.
The Turkish cartoonists whose works are selected for the catalog are Eda Karaabdurrahmanoğlu, Dinçer Köksal, Serpil Kar, Mehmet Saim Bilge, Musa Gümüş, Menekşe Çam, Kemal Ozyurt, Ismail Kar, Cem Koç, and Saadet Demir Yalçın.
Many thanks to Fawzy Morsy, the cartoonist friend in the organizing committee of the exhibition who sent me this important book of world cartoon.
They are organizing the 3rd edition of the Gathering in 2016 with the theme of "Education" and "Free theme" also; the regulation is here.

Saadet Demir Yalçın, Turkey

Doru Axinte, Romania