28.10.17

International Tobacco Cartoon Exhibition 2017, Indonesia

International Tobacco Cartoon Exhibition 2017
World Tobacco Grower’s Day (WTGD) is celebrated every date October 29th. In order to commemorate the day, Gold Pencil Indonesia in cooperation with The Union of Media Worker (Serikat Pekerja Lintas Media) and The Association of Indonesian Tobacco Growers (Asosiasi Petani Tembakau Indonesia) will hold an exhibition “International Tobacco Cartoon Exhibition 2017” on November 20th, 2017.
The committee invites cartoonists around the world to participate in sending cartoons with the theme:
Save The Tobacco Growers
DEADLINE: November 12th, 2017
The Criterion of Works:
1. This cartoon exhibition can be followed by cartoonists from all over the world.
2. Cartoon must be colorful, not black and white.
3. Please send your cartoon work to: goldpencil.id@gmail.com
4. File size / format: minimum size: 1 MB; maximum size:15 MB; file format: JPG; Resolution: 300 dpi; Color mode: RGB. In other words the work must be safe and good to be printed on A3 paper.
5. Each cartoonist is entitled to submit maximum work: 5 (five) cartoons.
6. Cartoons are the cartoonists original idea.
Participants will get certificates and digital catalogs.
7. The copyright of the work of the contest remains in each cartoonist.
8. The exhibition committee is entitled to use the work received for the purposes of publication, branding and others that are still relevant to the exhibition.
APPRECIATION:
10 best works will get “GOLD PENCIL AWARD” and each gift 2.000.000 IDR
JURY:
Jitet Koestana (Cartoonist, Gold Pencil)
Suratno (Cartoonist, Gold Pencil)
Representative of APTI.
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Source: Jitet Koestana.

20.10.17

International Kaplanlar Refrigeration Cartoon Competition 2017, Turkey

INTERNATIONAL KAPLANLAR REFRIGERATION CARTOON COMPETITION
SPECIFICATIONS
Theme: Environment and Climate Change
Driven by technological development and economic growth, our world is subject to constant changes. The problems of global warming, deforestation, extinction of plant and animal species, depletion of natural resources and pollution are all associated with these changes, issues which threaten life on the planet, its nature and our future.
Aware of the changes since it was founded, Kaplanlar Refrigeration has always striven to develop eco-friendly products and services, to reduce carbon footprints and support sustainable living. In fact, we believe that the cooling and refrigeration sector can make a positive contribution to the challenge of getting climate change under control.
Therefore, with the aim of keeping the public's attention focussed on environmental issues, Kaplanlar Refrigeration announces its International Cartoon Competition on the theme of  'Environment and Climate Change.'
2. Participation Deadline: December 31, 2017
3. Participation: Each participant may submit up to 3 works. The works should be in 300-dpi jpg format and in A4 size (21x29.7 cm). The works should be sent to cartoon@kaplanlar.com
4. The cartoons may have been published before but they should not have been awarded in any other contest. In order to identify plagiarization and similarity, the cartoons sent are going to be published on the Facebook account of Kaplanlar Refrigeration: https://www.facebook.com/kaplanlarsogutma between the dates 2-9 January 2018. The objections raised after these dates are not going to be taken into consideration.
5. By participating in this competition, the artists who have sent their works to the competition are going to be deemed to have accepted that they have given all rights of use of their works (such as poster, newsletter, TV commercial, internet, exhibition, invitation, brochure, calendar, CD, DVD, video etc.) to Kaplanlar Refrigeration Industry and Trade Inc. on condition that they are not going to be used for commercial purposes.
6. Jury Members:
• Ahmet Aykanat (Cartoonist)
• Mehmet Kahraman (Cartoonist)
• Cüneyt Şenyavaş (Cartoonist)
• Halit Kurtulmuş (Cartoonist)
• Kürşat Zaman (Cartoonist)
• Kaplanlar Refrigeration Industry and Trade Inc. Representatives (4 persons).
7. Prizes:
• 1st prize: $ 1.000
• 2nd prize: $ 750
• 3rd prize: $ 500
• Honourable Mention: $ 250
• Honourable Mention: $ 250
• Honourable Mention: $ 250
• Association for Supporting Contemporary Life, ÇYDD Special Prize (Award Plaque)
• Anatolian Cartoonists Association Special Prize (Award Plaque)
8. The results of the competition are going to be declared on 16 January 2018.
9. Contact Information:
Person in charge of the organization: Mrs Derya Sönmez
Tel: + 90 224 2610573 (667) E-mail: dsonmez@kaplanlar.com.

18.10.17

17th International Salón Humor Santa Clara 2017, Cuba

XVII International Salón Humor Santa Clara 2017, Cuba
The humoristic monthly Melaito and the Cuban Association of Authors and Artists (UNEAC) in Villa Clara, call for the XVII International Salón Humor Santa Clara 2017.
Regulations:
The themes for the salon will be “free” and “erotic”.
The works must not exceed 25 x 35 cm in any technique including printed copies of digital images. The Organizing Committee will print digital images selected for the competition, received by email in jpg, with 300 dpi resolution.
Each participant can send a maximum of three works for each theme.
Entries should be posted no later than November 30th, 2017
to the following address:
XVII Salón Internacional de Humor Santa Clara 2017
Casa de la Uneac:
Máximo Gómez no. 107
entre Julio Jover y Martí,
Santa Clara, Villa Clara,
Cuba.
And electronical address:
40melaito@gmail.com
archegaleria.vc@uneac.co.cu
Awards:
The Organizing Committee will award three prizes for each category and other discretionary prizes.
Prizes for international participants will consist of an original painting by a well-known local artist and a prize certificate, which will be posted by secured delivery.
A panel of prestigious cartoonist will decide the winners and its decision is final.
The awards will be given on December 20th at the UNEAC venue.
Shortlisted cartoons and works will be part of an exhibition.
For more details about this announcement you can emails:
40melaito@gmail.com
archegaleria.vc@uneac.co.cu
Organizing Committee.
Source: cartoonblues.

Received catalog of the 19th Novomestsky Osten Cartoon Contest 2017, Slovakia

Received today the color catalog of the 19th Novomestsky Osten Cartoon Contest 2017 in the Slovak Republic. The 14.75 x 21 cm sized catalog of quality paper has 48 pages including the covers. The cartoon on the back cover is by the 1st Prize-winning artist Oleksy Kustovsky from Ukraine. Below is the complete list of winners in the contest this year with theme "Happy Life". And some scans of cartoons in the catalog are followed.
The Novomestsky Osten Cartoon Contest was first organised in 1982 as the first festival of humorous drawings in the then Czechoslovakia. "Not only did it come into existence, it took firm roots," reminds Mr Josef Trstensky, the Mayor of Nové Mesto nad Vahom, in his foreword to the catalog: "A duo of enthusiasts - former Academy of Performing Arts graduates - were later joined by other Bratislava based artists, chief among them Viktor Kubal, the nestor of the Slovak caricature.
The Novomestsky osten took firm roots, and grew to such extent that in 2013 it became an international event." At present, they "are in the process of preparing the project documentation for the new gallery (of humorous drawings and satire), and if all goes to plan, the premises should be refurbished until the end of 2018, following which the gallery will be open."
Many thanks to the organizers for sending me this precious book of humor. It includes the works by four Turkish cartoonists as well, namely Musa Gümüş, Ömer Çam, Kaan Saatçi, and Kemal Özyurt.

16.10.17

29th International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda 2017, Brazil

29TH INTERNATIONAL HUMOR EXHIBITION OF VOLTA REDONDA 2017
COMMISSION REGULATION
The 29th International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda – 2017, carried out by the Volta Redonda City Hall/ Municipal Bureau of Culture, will be held in accordance with the following cheduIe:
Registration: October 13 to November 8, 2017.
Disclosure of Results: November 13, 2017.
Inauguration: November 16, 2017.
Exhibition: November 16 to December 16 2017.
Location: Espaço das Artes Zélia Arbex - Rua 14, s / n ° - Vila Santa Cecília
Total Award: R $ 28,000.00 (twenty-eight thousand reais).
1. PARTICIPATION
Professional and amateur artists, Brazilians and foreigners can apply unpublished artworks that were not awarded until the closing date for entries. The works - all categories - can be sent by MAlL or by internet.
The theme and the graphical technique are free. Digital copies signed by author and sculptures with humorous content will also be accepted. Maximum measures allowed: paper- 42 x 30 centimeters (A3) (16,54 x 11,81 inches).
Each artist may enter a maximum of 03 works per category: CARTOON (graphic humor with universal and timeless themes), CHARGE (graphic humor with journalistic themes of now a days), CARICATURE (graphic humor that expresses the physical and/or personality of a known celebrity), COMIC STRIPS / COMIC STORIES (graphic art in sequence. Caution: for comic stories will be accepted a maximum of 02 pages per work) and Theme OPERATION CAR WASH (OPERAÇÃO LAVA - JATO).
Along the registered artwork, the artist must attach a complete registration form with legibly writing.
1. Sent by MAIL
29th International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda - 2017 – rua Antonio Barreiros, n°.194
/ 3° andar – Nossa Senhora das Graças – Caixa Postal 27215-350 – Volta Redonda – RJ, BRASIL.
IMPORTANT: The work submitted must be accompanied by the registration form, duly completed and signed by the author.
2. Sent by INTERNET (ONLINE FORM)
Registration on the e-mail website of the event in JPEG format; resolution 200 DPI; saved in high quality and maximum of 3 MB (images attached at a single time): salaodehumordevoltaredonda@gmail.com
IMPORTANT: Uploaded files should be named as follows: artist name_country_number. Example: paulosilva_brazil_01 - the registration form duly completed and signed by the author.
2. AWARDS
1. Ten (10) cash prizes will be awarded, totaling R $ 28,000.00 (twenty-eight thousand reais), divided as follows:
a) 1st place - 4 (four) awards in the amount of R $ 4,000.00 (four thousand reais ) for the winners in these categories: Cartoon, Charge, Caricature and Comic Strips;
b) 2nd place - 4 (four) awards in the amount of R$ 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) for the winners in these categories: Cartoon, Charge, Caricature and Comic Strips;
c) 1 (one) Special Award of R$ 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) for the best graphic humor addressing theme OPERATION CAR WASH (OPERAÇÃO LAVA - JATO).
d) 1 (one) Special Awards of R$ 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) for the best paper submitted by an artist from Volta Redonda.
2. There will be no division of awards. The President of the Jury shall decide which will be the winners in case of tie.
3. The awards will be paid via bank deposit. Therefore, the committee will only be accepted the artwork of those who possess a bank account, considering the contestants personal data, as related in Article 2.4. Note: The committee will not accept savings account, account salary and/ or benefit account.
The values corresponding to the cash prizes will only be deposited in the name of the winners obeying the legislation established by the Municipality of Volta Redonda responsible for the realization of the International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda- 2017.
Authors of countries that face economic embargoes of any kind with Brazil and that make impossible the transfer of the monetary values of possible awards can only compete for nominations of honorary prizes.
3. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The simple application requires the artist to accept these regulations. The selected artists automatically transfer the authorial rights of his artworks for reproductions and publications in any media, without restriction, aiming promotion of the event. The returning of the artworks after the closing of the exhibition must be formally requested early in the registration form. Otherwise the artworks will ultimately belong to the collection of the International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda, which will exercise the right of property, as it finds interesting.
The organization of the International Humor Exhibition of Volta Redonda is not responsible for possible damages that may happen when the arts are sent or returned. The awarded authors transfer automatically Authorial Rights of their artworks (including mentions), in accordance with the Law n 9610, February 19st, 1988 (Authorial Rights Law),therefore, universal and definitely in all use modalities and gratuitous, the rights of the author, guaranteed by the mentioned law.
Volta Redonda, Octobert 5, 2017.
More on source: http://voltaredonda.rj.gov.br/smc/13/292.

13.10.17

Selected cartoonists of 4th international competition of cartoons "Aleksandar Klas" 2017

SELECTED CARTOONISTS OF FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST
ALEKSANDAR KLAS 2017, SERBIA
Askin Ayrancioglu (Turkey)
Alexander Shmidt (Russia)
Aleksander Dubovsky (Ukraine)
Aleksandar Krzavac (Serbia)
Bernard Bouton (France)
Bobo Pernecky (Slovakia)
Bogdan Petry & Horia Crisan (Romania)
Bogdan Poledica (Serbia)
Branislav Kan Djokic (Serbia)
Darko Drljevic (Montenegro)
Danja Doroski (Serbia)
Dobrivoje Lazarevic (Serbia)
Eduard Tuur (Estonia)
Elena Ospina (Colombia)
Erdogan Basol (Turkey)
Erico J. Ayres (Brazil)
Felix Gonzalez (Spain)
Furkat Usmanov (Uzbekistan)
Goran Celicanin (Serbia)
Guibaio Gai (China)
Hisein Rezaye (Avganistan)
Hule Hanusic (Austria)
Husejin Cakmak ( Ciprus)
Ilya Katz (Israel)
Ivan Simek (Slovakia)
Jaksa Vlahovic (Serbia)
Jerzy Stepniak (Poland)
Jitet Kustana (Indonesia)
Jordan Pop-Iliev (Makedonia)
Jovan Prokopljevic (Serbia)
Jovo Skomac (Serbia)
Jugoslav Vlahovic (Serbia)
Julian Pena-Pai (Romania)
Kaan Saatci (Turkey)
Kemal Ozyurt (Turkey)
Konstantin Kazanchev (Ukraine)
Konstantinos Tselios (Greece)
Lazo Sredanovic Dikan (Serbia)
Li Jingshan (China)
Louis Pol (Australia)
Luka Lagator (Montenegro)
Milan Licina (Serbia)
Mahsa Eskandari (Iran)
Milanko Kalicanin (Serbia)
Milenko Kosanovic (Serbia)
Milorad H. Jevtic (Serbia)
Milorad Rankov (Serbia)
Miro Georgievski (Makedonia)
Miro Stefanovic (Serbia)
Miroslav Barvircak (Slovakia)
Mirsaid Gaziev (Uzbekistan)
Muhamed Djerlek Max (Serbia)
Muhammad Muslih (Indonesia)
Musa Gumus (Turkey)
Muzaffer Yulchiboev (Uzbekistan)
Nenad Ostojic Neo (Croatia)
Nikola Dragas (Serbia)
Norberto R. Vecchio (Argentina)
Oktay Bingol (Turkey)
Oleg Dergachov (Canada)
Paolo Dalponte (Italy)
Predrag Srbljanin Srba (Serbia)
Raed Khalil (Syria)
Resad Sultanovic (Bosnia Herzegovina)
Saeed Sadeghi (Iran)
Sasa Dimitrijevic (Serbia)
Sava Babic (Serbia)
Serafim Bakoulis (Greece)
Sergej Semendjaev (Ukraine)
Silviu Stanila (Romania)
Slava Kazanevsky (Ukraine)
Slobodan Obradovic (Serbia)
Slobodan Srdic (Serbia)
Stefan Wenczel (Austria)
Steffen Jahsnowski-Herschel (Germany)
Trayko Popov (Bulgaria)
Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria)
Valery Momot (Uzbekistan)
Veselin Zidarov (Bulgaria)
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine)
Vladimir Khakhanov (Russia)
Vladimir Semerenko (Russia)
Vlado Volas (Serbia)
Vladimir Stevovic Beluga (serbia)
Vuga Radulovic Zivkovic (Serbia)
Yang Lijie (China)
Zlatko Krstevski (Makedonia)
Zoran Mihajlovic (Serbia)
Zoran Petrovic (Germany).
This report by:
Spiro Radulovic
Editor of review "Ilustrovana politika".