International Cartoon Contest "Humour a Gallarate" 2017, Italy

"Humour a Gallarate"
International Cartoon Contest
'Marco Biassoni' Grand Prix
“Osvaldo Cavandoli” Prize
January 21 – February 28, 2018
Theme: On the road

During the exhibition Kerouac. Beat Painting organized at the Museo Maga in Gallarate from December 2017 to April 2018 "Humor in Gallarate" chooses as the theme for the XXIII edition the title of his most famous novel. The pictorial and graphic works of one of the 20th century literary icons, Father of Beat Generation, will be exhibited for the first time in Italy, and "On the Road" will also be the leading line in the show of the selected cartoon.

Regulations

1) The contest is open to all professional cartoonists, caricaturists, illustrators and graphic artists from all over the world.
2) The competition is divided into three sections: A) Graphic humor B) Satire C) Caricature
Each participant can submit up to three works, one for each section, specifying the title
3) Theme: On the Road
4) The works must be UNPUBLISHED, accompanied by the participation card, biography and photo. Any work already published on paper or on the web will automatically be excluded from the assignement of prizes.
5) Size: A4 (21 x 29,7 cm)
6) Technique: Free.
The artworks Works can be made with any technique, including digital techniques.
7) The artworks could be send in two ways: A) Sending the artworks’ original | B) Electronic submission
A) A) Sending originals by post: each artwork must be signed by the author, with the personal information (name, surname, address), title and technique. The works, accompanied by the participation card, must be sent to:
Pro Loco Gallarate
Vicolo del Gambero, 10,
21013 Gallarate (VA)
ITALY
B) Electronic submission: The file must include the author's name and the progressive number (for example Name_1.jpg, Name_2.jpg, etc.). File format: JPG, 300 DPI, Max 2MB for each image.
The files, accompanied by the participation card, should be sent by email to: proloco.gallarate@libero.it
IMPORTANT: In the event of awarding a prize, the winner is required to send the original work that will become part of the "Humor at Gallarate Collection". In case of digital artwork, the author is required to send an high-definition print with the "unique copy" caption.
8) Deadline: 12.00 PM December 15, 2017
The Jury will meet Saturday, December 16, 2017
9) Prizes: the Jury will assign the following prizes:
 Grand Prix "Marco Biassoni" for the best artwork among all the sections
(Graphics/Cartoon, Satire, Caricature) - 1.000 € + diploma
 1st Prize – 500 € + diploma for each section
 One special Mention of Jury – Diploma for each section
 5 mention of honor for each
 “Cava Prize” 500 € + diploma. The special "Cava Award" named after Osvaldo Cavandoli, creator of the celebrated "La Linea" character, will be assigned to the artwork that, chosen from all the sections, will combine the beauty of humorous, satirical or caricatural content with the essence of the core graphic execution.
10) Jury: The selection of works and the awarding of prizes is exclusive jurisdiction of the Jury, appointed by the Pro Loco Gallarate, which will meet on December 16, 2017 in Gallarate. The jury's decision is final and unquestionable.
11) Exhibition: from January 21, 2018 at Maga Museum (Gallarate).
There will be also Marilena Nardi’s solo art exhibition.
Opening ceremony: Sunday, January 21, 2018, at 11:00 AM
All authors who will attend the opening ceremony are invited to a rustic lunch.
12) Catalogue: Each selected author, exhibited in shows and published in the catalog, will receive a complimentary copy of the same
13) Property and rights: the Organizers reserve the rights to reproduce the cartoons in catalogue, newspapers, or posters to promote the Contest and to exhibit a selection of works in other locations in Italy or other countries. None of works will be returned but will be included in the "Humour Gallarate Collection".
By submitting the artworks, the author accepts the rules and regulations of the Contest and the decisions of the Jury.
Further information:
Tel/Fax (+39)0331.774968
proloco.gallarate@libero.it | www.prolocogallarate.it
www.humouragallarate.wordpress.com
facebook.it/humouragallarate
twitter.it/humourgallarate
Regulations + ENTRY FORM (PDF).

The 10th Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts 2018, Iran

Call for Entries
10th Fadjr International Festival of Visual Arts
23rd January - 23rd February 2018

The Visual Arts Center of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in collaboration with the Institute for the Development of Contemporary, the Culture and Islamic Guidance administrations of the provinces, art assemblies and galleries organizes the 10th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts from 23rd January – 23rd February 2018 with the objective of introducing original ideas, interactive and creative artistic productions.
The Organizing Committee extends its invitation to artists and researchers around the world to participate in this event.
Theme: Open
The Organizing Committee believes artists to be the gentle soul, the aware human conscience and the worried eyes of their era's challenges. Therefore, the concerns and materials of their works shall be the pivotal theme.
Festival's strategy:
Introduction of works with novel and engaging capacity in the frame of using one or more disciplines of classic and new visual arts, which have become organized and exhibit an original and conceptual artistic idea.
Method, technique and the number of works:
1. The technique and method for presenting the work is free.
2. Each applicant may participate with 3 single works or one project (or a combination of both) in the Festival
3. The presentation space for statues or installations in the exhibition is a maximum of 300 x 300 x 300
4. If a work is exhibited in a relevant combination, installation, body or structure, it will be construed as a project.
5. A maximum of one work or one project will be admitted from each selected artist.
6. The submitted work should not have been displayed at previous Fajr Festivals of Visual Arts
7. Drawings, paintings, Persian painting, calligraphy, ceramic, photography, caricature, graphic, sculpture, illustration, architecture (monument design), video art, installations, environmental, performance, new arts, etc., which have been created independently or in combination, will be accepted
Submission and selection of works:
1. Registration, application ad submission of the works' images can only be made through the Festival's website of www.ivafestival.ir
2. The size of each submitted file should be a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 6 MB.
3. The applicants are required to register their CVs and 3 examples of their previous works in the Festival's site.
4. The applicants are required to submit a written text (statement) for description and clarification of their works. The statement shall not exceed a maximum of 100 words.
5. The works will be selected in two stages. First the Art Council will review the CVs, the image of the works and the statements to designate the selected artists and works. The relevant artists will be informed of the results. Then in the second stage, the selected artists in interaction and coordination with the Art Council will prepare the final work and deliver it to the Festival's Secretariat.
Judgment and selection of the top works:
The top works will be selected by a jury composed of Iranian and international artists.
Prizes and awards:
1. The jury will select 10 works among those admitted to the Festival and each winner will receive a Golden Tooba Statuette and a cash prize of IRR 150 million.
2. All artists admitted to the Festival will receive a certificate of participation and a book of the Festival.
Festival’s Executives:
Secretary General: Mojtaba Aghaee
Art Secretary: Jamshid Haghighatshenas
Executive Secretary: Abdol Rahim Siahkarzadeh
Art Council: Farah Ossooli, Manijeh Sehi, Kambiz derambakhsh, Behrooz Darosh, Sedaghat Jabbari, Mohammad Ali Bani Assadi, Asghar Kafshchian Moghadam, Bijan Seifoori, Behzad Ajdari, Jamshid Haghighatshenas and Mojtaba Aghaee.
Rules and regulations:
• Participation in this Festival is open to all artists
• Participation in the Festival signifies the acceptance of the regulations and judgment of the Art Council and the Jury.
• Any paraphrase, citation, quotation or copy from the work (s) of reference artists shall be clearly mentioned in the statement. Failure to comply with this regulation shall result in the elimination from the Festival and the revocation of prizes and awards.
• The artist shall be responsible for preparation, supply of equipment and material, presentation and display of the work.
• The artist shall be responsible for submission, receipt, transportation and execution of the work at the exhibition.
• The Festival Secretariat shall have the right of using the works in media and information, cultural advertisement and display inside and outside the country subject to mentioning the name of the artists.
• The Secretariat will not accept any liability for damages arising from improper shipment or posting of the work.
• Interested artists may refer to the website of www.ivafestival.ir for further information and the regulations of other sections of the Festival.
• Decision about contingencies shall be taken by the Festival’s Secretary General.
Chronology:
1. Call for entries and start of registration on the website: Tuesday 15th August 2017
2. Deadline for registration on the site: 11th December 2017 (max. by 14:00)
3. Initial selection of the works: 13th – 21st December 2017
4. Announcement of the initial selection: 23rd December 2017
5. Collection of selected works from the artists: 24th December 2017 – 5th January 2018
6. Final selection of the works: 6th – 8th January 2018
7. Announcement of final entrants to the Festival: 8th January 2018
8. Installation of works: 8th – 22nd January 2018
9. Opening ceremony: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
10. Closing and prize award ceremony: Friday 23rd February 2018
Address and contact number of the Permanent Secretariat:
#17, Shahid Sodooghi Alley, opposite Laleh Park, North Karegar Street, Tehran Iran
Postal code: 14186 – 93541
Phone and fax: + 98 21 6694 6910 - + 98 21 6694 6911
Email: fadjr10@ivafestival.ir
WEB: www.ivafestival.ir .

Honorable Mention Certificate 2017 received from syriacartoon website

Results of International Questionnaire Top 3 Cartoon Websites 2017
Congratulation!
Certificate from syriacartoon website

RAED KHALIL
Director of syriacartoon website
Syria - Damascus
www.raedcartoon.com
syriacartoon@yahoo.com
syriacartooncontest2014@gmail.com
+963 944704973.

The 5th International Cartoon Gathering, Cairo 2018, Egypt

The 5th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON GATHERING - EGYPT 2018
(To be held in 15th April 2018)
The Ministry of Culture in Egypt, in cooperation with Egyptian Caricature Association organizes,
The 5th International Cartoon Gathering.

Eligible Participants:
• Opened to all artists from all over the world above 18 years of age.
Theme:
1- Sports
2- Free
Technical Criteria:
• All artworks to be prepared at 300 dpi.
• Size A3 (297mmx420mm) in JPG format.
• Entries: Max. 5 cartoons.
• Submitted works can be in color or black and white, in any style or technique.
• Submitted works must not violate copyright laws.
• By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own and permit the organizers have full right to reproduce all or a part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition.
Submission:
• Send your cartoons and your CV (Name - Address - Phone number - Email address) via the following e-mail address: egyptcartoon2020@gmail.com
• Deadline: 5th January 2018
• A catalogue of the selected artworks will be printed, a copy of which will be sent to the selected cartoonists.
For more details please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/egyptcartoon
Or contact us at:
egyptcartoon2020@gmail.com
The President of the Gathering:
Gomaa Farahat
The Coordinator of the Gathering:
Fawzy Morsy.

Our earth–The way we like it: International Environmental Cartoon Contest 2017, Hungary

Our earth – The way we like it
International Environmental Cartoon Contest

Organizer
Karakter Kommunikációs Iroda
Application begins
4 October, 2017.
Deadline for entries
19 November 2017.
Theme
The Karakter Kommunikációs Iroda invites all professional and amateur cartoonists, satirical artists and graphic designers to an international illustration contest with the theme:
The earth is all of ours. We can’t live without it. Can we make our beloved planet aware of this?
Awards
I. prize: 300 €
II. prize: 200 €
III. prize: 100 €
General rules
Entries can be sent via post or e-mail to the organiser of the contest.
Size of entries received by post should be A/3.
Cartoons sent by emails should be in JPG format (300 dpi), sized at about 2500 pixels wide if in portrait format and 3500 pixels wide if in landscape format.
Competition details
 All participants must be 14 or older.
 Previously published cartoons are not allowed for submission.
 Each competitor is allowed to participate in the competition with a maximum of 3 cartoons.
 Postal address for entries: Sopron, Pf. 101, 9401, Hungary
Entries received by post will not be returned.
 Email address for entries: palyazat@zoldbicikli.hu
 Cartoons sent by email should contain the surname of the participant. A txt, doc or docx format text is required which includes the data of the participant and the cartoon. (listed below)
 Attachment of works received either by post or by email should include:
o Title of the work
o Name
o Address
o Phone number
o Email address of the applicant.
Jury
Works will be judged by a professional jury. The jury will automatically disqualify any submission deemed offensive or inappropriate or any submission that violates copyright law or the rules of the competition.
A notification of the result of the competition will be sent to the provided email address by 24 November 2017.
Exhibition
The best pictures will be part of an environmental awareness exhibition, which will be accompanying significal events and will be presented as a travelling exhibition as well.
The works of the exhibition will be seen on the homepage and on the facebook site of Zöldbicikli Productions.
Information
Further information about the competition will be constantly posted from 10 October 2017.on www.zoldbicikli.hu homepage.
Special professional advice can be asked of the competition’s artistic director Szénási Ferenc at the following email address: palyazat@zolbicikli.hu
The competition organizer claims the rights for all submission.
By taking part in the competition, all participants agree to the conditions and regulations of the competition.
By entering the contest, the participants accept that any decision made by the jury is not negotiable.
We wish good luck to all participants!
Karakter Kommunikációs Iroda.
Source: zoldbicikli(pdf).

Int cartoon contest, “Enough!”, dedicated to the centenary of Russia’s October Revolution

The Big Digital Encyclopedia of Caricature has announced an international cartoon contest, “Enough!”, dedicated to the centenary of Russia’s October Revolution (November 7th, 1917).
Conditions of Entry:
Participants are expected to produce work that is based conceptually on the theme of revolution, whether this references specifically the events of 1917 or any other revolution in history, be it red, black-and-white or indeed of any other color.
We encourage the participants to caricature famous historical figures, making use of allegory and allusion.
Technical requirements:
We will accept works employing any drawing technique, in digital format, size A4, at a resolution of 300 dpi.
An individual artist may enter any number of works without limit.
Collages will be judged along with cartoons in the same category.
Caricatures in the form of portraits will be judged in a separate subcategory.
Deadline for submission:
Works must be submitted by email to postmarat@gmail.com no later than November 1st, 2017
Winners will be announced on November 7th, 2017.
Prizes:
1st Prize: 300 USD
2nd Prize: 200 USD
3rd Prize: 100 USD
Best caricature portrait: 50 USD
The Contest catalogue, poster and diplomas will be emailed in PDF format.
Please note:
At the close of the competition, we are planning to exhibit the best works in Barcelona. We will be happy to provide the works to those wishing to organize their exhibition at another location.
Founder and editor of BEC
Marat Valiakhmetov.