3rd International Cartoon Competition, Talinn 2017, Estonia

3rd INTERNATIONAL CARTOON COMPETITION 2017
JUBILEE – ESTONIAN REPUBLIC 100
Tallinn, Estonia

1. The organizers of the INTERNATIONAL CARTOON COMPETITION are the Estonian Humour Union, the Estonian Humour Union and humour magazine „Pilkaja“ (Mocker). Exhibition will be dedicated as the present to Estonia Republic 100 anniversary.
2. Theme: Jubilee
3. Entries: Entrants could submit more than one work, however no more than one award will be awarded to participants. All graphic techniques are allowed. Text is not allowed, but can use internationally known expressions. digitally at least 300 dpi, RGB, JPG, colored or black and white. The work may have been published, but not won the prize.
Works will be not returned to the autor. Each entrant must provide name and surname, address, phone number including country code, and email address , the author’s first and last name, title (if applicable), year of creation, e-mail.
All persons entering the competition agree that the rules of the competition as set out in these terms and conditions are binding on them.
Address digitally to: info@eestihuumor.ee
or
Original works to: Eesti Huumoriliit Vana-Viru 4 Tallinn 10111 Estonia
4. Entry deadline is the 17th of September 2017.
5. Awards: 1st Prize: 700 Euro, 2nd Prize: 500 Euro, 3rd Prize: 300 Euro.  Totally 1500 €.
6. Prize-giving and exhibition: The results of the competition will be announced on 1st of October and will be published on www.eestihuumor.ee. Cartoon exhibition will be opened in different cultural institutions throughout Estonia and will run from November 2017 to November 2018.
7. Other conditions: All participants will receive a free electronic exhibition catalog. The copyright of the works sent to the competition can be used by the Estonian Association of Humor and may be published in the humor magazine “Pilkaja” free of charge, as well as 100 related events and publications in the Republic of Estonia. Works are preserved at the Estonian Humor Museum. The catalog can be downloaded: www.eestihuumor.ee
Cartoons competition is supported by the: Estonian Humour Union, Estonian Humour Museum, Humorr Magazine Pilkaja (Mocker www.pilkaja.ee)), National Foundation of Civil Society, Estonia 100 organising committee, transport company Mootorgrupp.
More information:
Andrus Tamm
phone: +372 51 77 861
e-mail: andrus@eestihuumor.ee
www.eestihuumor.ee .

International Cartoon Contest, Braila 2017, Romania

REGULATION
Braila County Council
Braila County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture

The contest is open to all cartoonists.
THEME: Black humor
ENTRIES: max. 3.
The cartoons will be original and accompanied by a brief biography (including photo, address and phone number).
The making technique of the cartoons is free.
Deadline: The cartoons will be sent until the 27th August 2017.
Mandatory technical conditions
Size: A3 (297 mm x420 mm).
The cartoons will be sent in electronic format, JPG, 300 dpi, CMYK
Each sent cartoon will contain in the name of the file the author's name and title of the work/the cartoons’ numbering.
Mailing address : cartooncontestbraila@gmail.com 
Participants must own all the rights to the cartoons entered in the contest.
The cartoon’s author gives the Organizer the right to use the cartoon, according to the Romanian legislation, in order to promote the event, the institution and the city's image, by any means.
The Organizer does not assume any responsibility for any breaches of copyright. Exclusive responsibility lies with the one who sent the cartoon.
Prizes:
The Big Prize –1.500 €;
First Prize – 1.000 €;
Second Prize – 800 €;
Third Prize – 500 €;
3 Special Prizes – 3 x 300 € (each)
Prizes are taxed according to Romanian legislation.
Please note! To be able to receive their prize, winners must send the winning cartoon in original (with the author's signature on the back of the work) within 30 days from the announcement and communicate the bank account in lei ( for the Romanian competitors) or the euro account (for foreign competitors ).
The winning cartoons will be mailed to the following address: Romania, Braila, Traian Square, No. 2, Postal code 810 153.
The Organizer shall not be responsible for failure of a winner to receive the prize for reasons that are not related to the Organizer. If the competitor does not comply with the obligations imposed by this regulation, the Organizer is relieved of any liability.
Mention! In the absence of interbank relations between Romania and the country of origin of the winner, the Organizer is relieved of any liability.
Salon opening and award ceremony: the 22nd of September 2017
Edition catalog will include a selection of the most valuable works in the competition;
The awarded artists will receive a copy of the mentioned catalogue for free.
CONTACT:
The County Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Braila
No. 2, Piata Traian, postal code 810153, Phone no.: +40.239.614.710, Braila, Romania
Email: cult.traditional@gmail.com
Source: bestcartoons.

Catalog of 4th International Olive Cartoons Contest 2015 of Kyrenia Municipality, Cyprus

Today received the recently published (April 2017) catalog of the 4th International Olive Cartoons Contest 2015 of Kyrenia Municipality, Cyprus. It is 20x21.5x2.5 cm in dimensions and has 240 full color pages plus the covers.
As Nidai Güngördü, the Mayor of Kyrenia Municipality, points out in his foreword, "Although the International Olive Cartoons Contest was interrupted for 4 years, which is a long period of time, owing to the efforts and meetings of the Organising Committee, 224 illustrators attended this year's contest from 56 countries with 459 pieces of artwork. This great success shows us that at the heart of this project, there is an endeavour, a collective collaboration, solemnity and the sense of "union is strength"."
And Musa Kayra, the President of Cypriot-Turkish Cartoonists Association, reminds in his introductory words that "the Olive that is one of the most important products of food culture of Mediterranean countries is our roots, our culture and our future."
This colossal book of cartoon art perfectly covers the short bios plus cartoons or portraits and declarations of the jury members and prize-winners in both Turkish and English languages, snapshots of the jury meeting, the prize-giving ceremony and some touristic scenes from the historical town along with the winning and the many selected cartoons.
The cartoon on the front cover is by the Slovenian artist Radko Oketic and the one on the back belongs to the Turkish cartoonist Cemalettin Güzeloğlu. Possible to see many winning and participating cartoons on the special website of the contest: http://www.zeytinkarikaturleri.com/.

Results of Caneva Ride Contest 2017, Premio Toni Zampol, Italy: In Vino Veritas?

Caneva Ride Contest 2017, Premio Toni Zampol, Italy
Theme: In Vino Veritas?

We report that upon the reporting of a large number of people and participants, after appropriate verifications the work that was the winner of Canza Ride 2017 "In Wine Veritas" by Behzad Ghafarizadeh Canada can not be admitted to the competition because it does not respect the regulation as work already winner of another competition and therefore not unpublished.
For this reason, the ranking of the winners is modified as follows:

First ranked: Bruno Hamzagic

- Bruno Hamzagic, the brilliant vignettist, has remarkably effective use of color, with a genial combination of technology connectors and natural shadows that make us laugh at taste. The design is also very effective, framing two subjects, certainly not on the cover, but from which a genuine beauty comes out. The aspect that struck the sticker in question is the ability in the synthesis of these elements to reproduce a situation that is contemporary but at the same time ancient, atavistic, and Dionysian. Use the Wine - Fi text to close and complete the image. Connected!

Second Classified: Konstantin Kazanchev

- Second, but not least noteworthy, is the design by the artist Konstantin Kazanchev that surprises us with a definite theme and solution: our consciousness. Well-made, the illustration suggests the theme of wine as a possible pacifying element of conflicts, difficult decisions, and moral issues to which we all, for good and for evil, have daily to do. To enrich the concept of the man's profile we can perceive is a man with important decisions, with his gut and 'wide' shoulders. Prosit!
The third prize is not awarded. (Source: facebook).
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Selected Artists:
1. Bruno Hamzagic Brazil (primo)
2. Konstantin Kazanchev Ukraine (secondo)
3. Seyran Caferli Azerbaijan
4. luc descheemaeker Belgium
5. Paulo Sergio Brazil
6. Rafael Corrêa Brazil
7. Rodrigo Serra Brum Machado Brazil
8. Jovcho Savov Bulgaria
9. Lyubomir Mihaylov Bulgaria
10. Bilig (bi li ge) China
11. Slobodan Butir Croatia
12. Roberto Castillo Rodriguez Cuba
13. Sergey Sichenko Israel
14. Angelo Campaner Italy
15. Coan Italy
16. Davide Bassi Italy
17. Gianni Barro Italy
18. Irina Selivanova Italy
19. Marco Gavagnin Italy
20. Roberto Feletto Italy
21. Selivanov Andrey Italy
22. Sergio Tessarolo Italy
23. Dariusz Dabrowski Poland
24. Jacek Majcherkiewicz Poland
25. Evžen David Repubblica Czechia
26. Aurel Stefan Alexandrescu Romania
27. Doru Axinte Romania
28. Julian Radu Romania
29. Liviu Stanila Romania
30. Ivan Anchoukov Russia
31. Maxim Smagin Russia
32. Zlatkovsky Mikhail Russia
33. Goran Celicanin Serbia
34. Mileta Miloradovic Serbia
35. Zoran Mihailović Serbia
36. Cenk Alparslan Turkey
37. Hilal Özcan Turkey
38. Menekse Çam Turkey
39. Konstantin Kazanchev Ukraine
40. Oleksy Kustovsky Ukraine
41. Makhmud Eshonqulov Uzbekistan.
(Source: facebook.)

Final results of the 6th International Olive Cartoon Contest 2017, Cyprus

MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA
CYPRIOT – TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION
FINAL RESULTS
6. INTERNATIONAL OLIVE CARTOON CONTEST – 2017
(KYRENIA – CYPRUS)

INTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBERS:

Nidai Güngördü (Cyprus), Juli Sanchis Aguado (Spain), Musa Kayra (Cyprus), M. Serhan Gazioğlu (Cyprus), Bülent Faiz Arabacıoğlu (Turkey), Mustafa C. Azizoğlu (Cyprus), Derman Atik (Cyprus), Hüseyin Çakmak (Cyprus), Ioannis Geroulias (Greece), Sait Munzur (Turkey), Saadet Demir Yalçın (Turkey), Shirin Gholipour (Iran), Nicoletta Ionescu (Romania).
Country: 62
Participant: 300
Work: 790

PRIZE LIST

First Prize: 1.000 Euro + Gold Olive Sculpture + First Degree Diploma
Toso Borkovic (Serbia)

Second Prize: 800 Euro + Silver Olive Sculpture + Second Degree Diploma
Mikhail Zlatkovsky (Russia)

Third Prize: 600 Euro + Bronz Olive Sculpture + Third Degree Diploma
Doru Axinte (Romania)

INTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBERS SPECIAL PRIZES:

Saeed Sadeghi (Iran)

Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu (Turkey)

Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine)

Sajad Rafeei (Iran)

Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz (Poland)

Ahmet Aykanat (Turkey).

SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE PERSONS
(See prize-winning cartoons here)

Filiz Naldöven Special Prize:
Stefaan Provijn (Belgium)

Nidai Güngördü Special Prize:
Amir Beigzadeh Nonakaran (Iran)
Narges Tavan Majidi (Iran)
Kürşat Zaman (Turkey)

Kyrenia Municipality Assembly Members Special Prize:
Peter Puszta (Germany)

Hakan Çakmak Special Prize:
Aidarbek Gazizov (Kazakhstan)

Ramiz Gökçe Special Prize:
Roman Kubec (Czech)

Salih Oral Special Prize:
Hristina Belousova (Uzbekistan)
Khodayar D. Naroei (Iran)

Erten Kasımoğlu Special Prize:
Miroslav Jakovljev (Serbia)

Kyrenia Municipality Special Prize:
David Evzen (Czech).

FINALIST MEDAL:
Abbas Naaseri (Iran)
Ali Shafei (Iran)
Alexei Talimonov (England)
Achmad Cholid (Indonesia)
Agim Krasniqi (Kosovo)
Agoes Jumianto (Indonesia)
Ahmet Ümit Akkoca (Turkey)
Aimeur Youcef (Algeria)
Aleksandr Zudin (Russia)
Amalijus Narbutas (Lithuania)

Antonio Garci (Mexico)
Aytur Şahinbay (Turkey)
Azuka Nwokocha (Nigeria)
Babic Sava (Serbia)
Behzad Ghafarizadeh (Canada)
Borislav Josipovic (Croatia)
Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu (Romania)
Cansu Berberoğlu (Turkey)
Cemalettin Güzeloğlu (Turkey)
Derin Bilecenoğlu (Turkey)

Derya İçköprü (Turkey)
Devran Öztunç (Cyprus)
Dina Abdelgawad Shosha (Egypt)
Dolgun Dalgıçoğlu (Cyprus)
Engin Selçuk (Turkey)
Emine Fida Rüzgar (Turkey)
Ertan Ayhan Sertöz (Turkey)
Evelyn Soraya De Paz Samayoa (Guatemala)
Fahri Eyican (Turkey)
Fahriye Çıtaklı (Turkey)

Farrukh Teshaev (Uzbekistan)
Grigoris Georgiou (Greece)
Gorbatenkaia Tatiana (Moldova)
Gustavo Caballero Talavera (Mexico)
Gülşah Demir (Turkey)
Halit Önür (Turkey)
Hasan Ceylan (Turkey)
Heino Partanen (Finland)
Helmut Jacek (Germany)
Henry Ezeokeke (Nigeria)

Husan Sodiqov (Uzbekistan)
Hülya Erşahin (Turkey)
İbrahim Tuncay (Turkey)
İsmail Çelebi (Turkey)
İsmail Kar (Turkey)
Jalal Pirmarzabad (Iran)
Jiliang Wu (China)
Jesús Francisco Carreño (Spain)
Jitet Kustana (Indonesia)
Kemal Özyurt (Turkey)

Konda Ravi Prasad (India)
Qasımhanlı Bayram (Azerbaijan)
Qiao Wei (China)
Leonardo Zaza (Italia)
Louis Pol (Australia)
Luka Lagator (Montenegro)
Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan)
Marina Gorelova (Belarus)
Mehmet Arslan (Turkey)
Mehmet Kahraman (Turkey)

Mehmet Zeber (Turkey)
Meret Gylyjov (Turkmenistan)
Mert Erdiş (Turkey)
Miro Georgievski (Macedonia)
Muammer Kotbaş (Turkey)
Mohammad Ali Khalaji (Iran)
Mojmir Mihatov (Croatia)
Muhammed Zahid Aksoy (Turkey)
Musa Keklik (Turkey)
Nikolay Arnaudov (Bulgaria)

Nikolay Sviridenko (Uzbekistan)
Omar Perez (Spain)
Omar Zavallos Velarde (Peru)
Osman Güral Suroğlu (Turkey)
Önder Önerbay (Turkey)
Passaprawas A – Chinoboonwat (Thailand)
Paul Kempeneers (Belgium)
Raimundo Rucke Santos (Brazil)
Raimundo Waldez C. Duarte (Brazil)
Raul Fernando Zuleta (Colombia)

Roberto Castillo Rodriguez (Cuba)
Run Tang Li (China)
Sanaz Khadem Yahyavi (Iran)
Samaneh Saberi (Iran)
Serafim Bakoulis (Greece)
Serdar Günler (Turkey)
Serdar Kıcıklar (Turkey)
Sergei Semendyaev (Ukraina)
Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan)
Shahram Rezai (Iran)

Slava Kazanevskyi (Ukraine)
Slobodan Butir (Croatia)
Sittipunt Tumying (Thailand)
Stanislaw Gajewski (Poland)
Trayko Popov (Bulgaria)
Uğur Pamuk (Turkey)
Viacheslav Bibishev (Tatarstan)
Victor Crudu (Moldova)
Vladimir Semerenko (Russia)
Wesam Khalil (Egypt).
(*) The transfer and accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win the first six awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
Only the accomodation expenses of the cartoonists who will win particular/distinctive awards will be paid by the Municipality of Kyrenia…
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.

The First International Caricature Portrait Festival, Beijing 2018, China

The first International Caricature Portrait Festival (IPCF), Beijing 2018

The first International Caricature Portrait Festival (the festival for short) in Beijing is a grand event of creation and communication on caricatures.
The main purpose : The festival collects and exhibits contributions of high level and high-profile from caricaturists all over the world to develop the academic exchanges and stimulate the development of caricatures:
1) Collect 123 pieces of excellent contributions.
2) The festival will be organized in Beijing with a first class exhibition and academic exchanges, and all the selected works will be published.
3) The organizer will award certificates to the caricaturists attend the exhibition, and publish all the selected works. (The caricaturists of all the selected works would be invited to Beijing)
1. Events details:
1) Deadline: Dec. 30th 2017
2) Exhibition: Mar. 2018 (Tentative)
3) Location: Guardian Art Center Beijing China
2. Contribution themes:
World’s famous Portraits in politics, culture, economy, entertainment and etc.
3. Contribution requirement:
1) Innovative and individual works with unlimited style. Unpublished and hand-drawn works would be prior.
2) For published works, need clear indications of creation date, exhibition date and awards.
3) The maximum number of works for each caricaturist to send to the exhibition is 5.
4. Work requirement:
1) After the primary selection, the original manuscript would be needed.
2) Each work must be with autographic signature on.
3) Printed and airbrushed work is declined.
4) The size of each work must be between 420x300mm and 800mmx600mm.
5) A form in Chinese or English is required to attach to the back of the work with the information of nationality, full name, work type, title, address, zip code, e-mail address, contact number, one photocopy of I.D or passport, beneficiary bank, personal account(or SWIFT code for foreign caricaturists) . Make all the information correct. The organizer would not take any responsibility for any bounce caused by incorrect information.
5. Caricaturists’ remuneration:
All the selected 123 works would be collected by Zhejiang Tao’s Culture & Art CO. LTD (Tao for short). The best 30 works would be collected for RMB4000 each, and the rest 93 works would be RMB2000 each (or US dollars as the latest exchange rate).
*30 and 93 are approximate numbers, they might be changed according to the exhibition.
6. Submission methods:
1) Send the photocopy of the work by e-mail.
Deadline: 23rd Jun 2017-23rd Oct 2017
2) After the primary selection, send the original manuscript to the organizer by post.
Deadline: 23rd Oct 2017-23rd Dec 2017
The caricaturists from China mainland can send the original manuscript to the organizer by post directly.
3) E-mail address: Taosart@Taosart.CN
4) Mail address: 中国浙江省杭州市上城区定安路68号定安名都商务大厦A座503-505
浙江陶氏文化艺术有限公司
Zhejiang Tao’s Culture & Art
CO.,LTD Room503-505 No.68 Dingan Rd. Shangcheng Dis. Hangzhou China
Zip code: 310000
5) Contact number: 0086-571-8561123
6) Contacts: Miss. Chen 008613735804085 Mr. Zhu 008618058800172
7. Organizer’s statement:
1) The organizer has the right to exhibit, publish, study and broadcast all the works.
2) The organizer would not assume legal responsibilities for any copyright issues.
3) All the caricaturists must follow the rules above, and Zhejiang Tao’s Culture & Art CO. LTD reserves the right to the final interpretation of the above terms.
8. Organizers:
China Institute of Newscartoon
Zhejiang Cartoonists Association
Zhejiang Tao’s Culture & Art CO. LTD
Curator: Mr. Xiaoming Tao
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