The 60th International Cartoon Contest Golden Hat 2021, Belgium

GOLDEN HAT 2021

RULES

PARTICIPATION
All persons over 18 years of age are eligible to participate in this international contest. Participants shall agree to the terms and conditions of the rules and the decisions of the jury. Belgian law governing withholding tax on prizes won by foreign participants applies.
Participation is free of charge. Deadline 31.12.2020.
DEFINITION
A cartoon is a humorous drawing. This may be a caricature of a famous person, a parody of a real situation, or simply a picture of a funny situation. The cartoon may consist of one image or take the form of a short comic strip. No moving images allowed.
THEME
Participants are free to choose the theme of their entries.
ENTRIES
Regulations​
Maximum 5 submissions per person, black and white or colour.
The cartoons must not contain text.
Drawings can also be made digitally.
They must be packaged flat and not folded.
Works under glass, framed or in other materials will not be accepted.
They must not have been exhibited in Belgium or awarded in other countries.
Entries
Digital entries: min. 2480 x 3500 pixels (A4 300dpi). Allowed file types: jpg jpeg eps tif psd pdf.
Entries may only be sent by post after the form has been completed on the website and the form is enclosed with the entry. Dimensions min. 21 x 30 cm or max. 30 x 42 cm. The entrant’s name, first name and address must be written on the back of each cartoon.
Your participation is only valid if we have received your fully completed entry form on our website.
Entries are submitted at the expense of the entrants.
The selected cartoons wil be tramed with a passe-partout for the exhibition.
ORIGINALITY OF WORKS
The sender remains responsible for the originality of his work. Discussions and possible claims concerning all forms of plagiarism are the responsibility of the contributor.
OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
By participating, entrants grant the organizing body the right to use their entries as advertising for the “International Cartoon Festival” and the seaside resort Knokke-Heist (e.g. as cartoon book, catalogue, advertising in the press and other media, separate promotional printed works such as posters, leaflets, etc., promotional gifts by the city council and/or cartoon festival organizers, calendar).
JURY
A professional jury will make a selection for the exhibition from the submissions received and will select 10 nominees. 

This selection will be checked for plagiarism after which the jury can decide to make a selection. 

The winners will be announced on the opening date of the festival.
OWNERSHIP BY ORGANIZING BODY
All submitted works shall become the property of the organizing body related to the cartoon festival.
You can ask for a return of the submitted items on your expence. Submitted works will be stored for maximum 2 years.
CARTOON BOOK
In collaboration with “Davidsfonds” Leuven, a cartoon book will be published, subject to budgetary and technical constraints. Selected participants will be entitled to one copy.
PRIZES
Golden Hat 5.000 € *
Silver Hat 2.000 € *
Bronze Hat 1.000 € *
Audience Award 500 €
* + flight and hotel accommodation in Knokke-Heist during the opening (one night).
PRODUCTION
City of Knokke-Heist / Culture House
Maxim Willemspad 1 , 8300 Knokke-Heist
Phone +32 50 63 04 30
cartoonfestival@knokke-heist.be
Source: myknokke.

The 8th International Salon of Press Cartoons and Satirical Visual Arts 2020, Romania

8th International Salon of Press Cartoons and Satirical Visual Arts 2020, Romania

CONDITIONS: 

1.The competition is open to any cartoonist.

2. It is acceptable to enter with cartoons that have been published previously. However, they should not have won any prize/award in any other competition. 

3. Any technique is allowed. The cartoonist can submit a maximum of 5 cartoons. Originals or electronic versions suitable for printing in 300 dpi and jpg format sent by e-mail would also be acceptable. No reposnibility will be assuemed for documents sent in different formats and documents that can not be opened. 

4. All cartoons must be 30x40 cm maximum. 

5. The participants must write their names (first and surname) in capital letters, address, e-mail, country and telephone number; a brief CV should be submitted in a sealed envelope. 

6. The cartoons must be sent to the following address, no later than 15th September 2020: 

office@tim-toons.com ; 

office@popa-popas.ro ; 

POPA’S FOUNDATION TIMIŞOARA adress: 

Street Virgil Oniţiu number 5, postal code 300238, Timişoara, Timiş România. 

Phone: 0040-(0)744 531 169. 

7. The results of the competition will be announced on the 1st of October 2020. 

8. The cartoons sent to the competition will not be returned. All cartoons, whether they have won a prize or not, may be used for cultural purposes and may be published. Participation assumes acceptance of these conditions. All cartoons will be kept in the ‘International Salon Of Press Cartoons And Satirical Visual Arts'. 

9. The cartoons selected by the jury will be displayed in the exhibition and will also be printed in the album. 

10. The reward ceremony will be held on the 16th of October 2020 The opening of the exhibition will be held on the same date, in ‘International Salon Of Press Cartoons And Satirical Visual Arts' for cartoons which have won an award or have been selected for display. The exhibition will be open until the 15th of November 2020. 

11. For participants the travel, accommodation and meals are provided by the organizers. 

12. SELECTION COMMITTEE: 

Judging will be made online in 6 capital cities of the world by great artists around the world. 

13. PRIZES: 

There will be 4 prizes of excellence of 1000 Euros each.

Kartal Municipality International Covid-19 Cartoon Competition 2020, Turkey

Kartal Municipality International Covid-19 Cartoon Competition

Specifications 

1 - The competition is open to all amateur and professional illustrators. 

2 - The subject of the contest is in the form of "Covid-19 Epidemics", which affects the whole world. 

3 - Each artist can participate in the competition with a maximum of 3 works. 

4 - Technique is free for the participating works. The size of the cartoons should not exceed A3. The works to be sent should be at 300 dpi resolution and sent by e-mail. 

5 - There will be participation in the competition with works made with black-white or color technique. However, the works must be original and signed. 

6 - The deadline to participate in the competition is Monday, October 5, 2020. Works that do not arrive until the working hour are excluded from the competition. The jury meeting will be held between 5-10 October 2020 and the result of the competition will be announced to the press and social media. 

7 - The cartoons deemed worthy to be exhibited among the works participating in the competition will be collected in an album. 

8 - The e-financial address to send the cartoons: kartalcartooncontest2020@kartal.bel.tr Illustrators must send a photo and CV with their work. 

9 - All usage rights of the works participating in the competition and exhibited in the album belong to Kartal Municipality. 

10 - The cartoonists participating in the competition are deemed to have accepted all the conditions. 

11 - Competition Jury: 

Adem UÇAR - Deputy Mayor of Kartal Municipality 

Vladimir Kazanevsky - Ukraine 

Massoud Shojai - Iran 

Marco de Angelis - Italy 

Hasan Seçkin - Hasat Art Workshop 

Oğuz Gürel - Turkey 

Ercan Akyol - Turkey 

Saadet Demir Yalcin - Turkey 

Huseyin Aslan - Turkey 

Yurdagün Göker - Turkey. 

10 - Awards: 

* First Prize 1500 $  

* Second Prize 1000 $ 

* Third Prize 750 $ 

* Honorable Mention 4 x 400 $  

* Kartal Municipality Presidential Special Award 

* Our Cartoon Masters - Bedri Koraman Special Award 

* Jury Special Prize 

* Harvest Art Workshop Award 

* Special Prizes (6). 

11 - The cartoons participating in the competition will be finalized as 100 finalist works by the jury in the first place. Copy, imitation, etc. studies are eliminated from the competition with the jury report and report. 

12 - Participating cartoons may have been published before, but should not have been awarded in any competition. 

13 - Competition Album will be sent to the artists whose works are published in the album. 

14 - The evaluation of the participating works and the award ceremony (considering the Covid-19 outbreak) will be held online. 

15 - The results of the competition will be announced to the public on 11 October 2020 at the latest. 

16 - Kartal Municipality Competition Participation Certificate will be sent to all participating illustrators. 

17 - The Award Ceremony and Competition Exhibition will be held at the place and date deemed appropriate by Kartal Municipality. The results of the competition will be sent to Kartal Municipality Directorate of Culture and Social Affairs along with the minutes of Saturday, October 18-11. 

Source: Kartal Belediyesi.

29th International Festival of Humor and Satire, Golden Helmet 2021, Serbia

29TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMOR

AND SATIRE GOLDEN HELMET

ANNOUNCES THE COMPETITION

THE THEME - WINDOW

CATEGORIES
1. CARICATURE
2. WRITTEN FORM
- Short story
- Poem
- Aphorism
PROPOSITIONS
1. CARICATURE: ORIGINAL, MINIMUM SIZE A4 (210x297 mm), MAXIMUM SIZE A3 (297x420 mm), ALL DRAWING TECHNIQUES (IT'S ALLOWED TO USE COMPUTER TECHNIQUES).
2. WRITTEN FORM: MAXIMUM LENGTH IS TWO TYPED PAGES, MAXIMUM UP TO 20 APHORISMS.
ALL WORKS OF CREATION MUST BE SENT WITH A UNIQUE CODE.
ONE AUTHOR CAN HAVE ONLY ONE CODE!
AWARDS
CARICATURE
1ST PRIZE: "GOLDEN HELMET" PLAQUE...600 €
AND INDEPENDENT ART EXIBITION OF CARICATURE IN 2022.
2ND PRIZE...400 €
3RD PRIZE...200 €
WRITTEN FORM
SHORT STORY: "GOLDEN HELMET" PLAQUE ...200 €
POEM: "GOLDEN HELMET" PLAQUE ...200 €
APHORISM: "GOLDEN HELMET" PLAQUE ...200 €
SPECIAL PRIZE "RADE BRKA"...200 €.
You can send your works of creation until 25 January 2021.
Send only unpublished works of creation. Also you must send your short biography, address, contact telephone and e-mail address.
Written works must be sent by post in four (4) copies with the code!
Caricatures can be sent by post, but also by e-mail in JPG form (resolution of 300 dpi and a maximum size of 4 MB). Original caricatures must be sent, too. Computer-generated caricatures must be printed in A4 format, signed manually with the No.1 mark and sent by post, also.
The decision of the jury will be announced by 15 February 2021.
The Awards ceremony will be held at Final Night of the Festival - 1st April 2021.
The Organizaion of the festival will bear the cost of the trip and accommodation for the awarded authors. The official langauges of the festival are Serbian and English.
All artists whose works are selected for the exhibition and the catalog, will receive a free copy of the catalog. The works of art remain the property of the Festival. The organizer reserves the right to use the works sent for the competition in order to promote the Festival.
Address: Cultural Center Kruševac
International Festival of Humour and Satire "Golden Helmet"
Toplicina 2; 37000 Kruševac SERBIA
tel/fax: +381 (37) 423 025, 421 877
e-mail: goldenhelmet@ptt.rs 

WEB: www.kck.org.rs .

Entry Form (Above).
Source: zlatnakaciga .

International Cartoon Exhibition: Solidarity for Sustainability 2020, Turkey

International Cartoon Exhibition: Solidarity for Sustainability

Topic: Sustainable Life

Sustainable life defines a lifestyle that includes the efficient, careful, fair, and responsible use of the natural resources of the planet while meeting the vital, economic, and social needs of individuals and communities. Correct use of natural resources, environmentally friendly nutrition and food systems, use of environmentally sensitive technology, renewable energy use, a healthy environment, equal distribution of resources means as the synchronous providing of economic welfare and social justice. The inclusion of sustainability in lifestyle means that the choices of individuals regarding food, product and energy use both today and tomorrow and being aware of the impact that future generations have on their lives. Within the scope of sustainable lifestyles to slow down global warming by reducing carbon footprint: reach to healthy food, reducing food waste, supporting local producers, the hunger-obesity paradox, environmentally friendly transportation, recycling, being a producer without a consumer, use of second-hand items, reducing plastic waste, use of environmentally friendly products, conserving biodiversity, reduce ocean-sea pollution and protecting sea creatures, planting a tree, respect for all creatures in nature, rights advocacy of disadvantaged groups, equality in income distribution, in support of art and artist works which include may apply.

In the works, critical, awareness-raising expressions that emphasize the causes and consequences of the global climate crisis, emphasize respect for the living rights of other creatures in nature should be taken into account.

Why an exhibition instead of competition?

Sustainability is a concept that includes solidarity, not competition. This time, we will embrace our planet, which is on the point of extinction, with solidarity and create awareness with our drawings.

To create awareness, we believe that cartoon is one of the best mediums.

COVID-19 and SUSTAINABILITY

Covid-19 pandemic’s relationship with sustainability and solidarity drawings, which are on the agenda when we prepare announcements for the cartoon exhibition, will make the cartoon exhibition more meaningful.

CONDITIONS

Who can participate?

• The application is open to all amateur and professional artists.

• Applications will be evaluated in two categories: under and over the age of 18.

Rules for the cartoons

• The cartoons which sent for exhibition may have been previously published, but the works must be original, unique and produced by the applicant.

• The works should be prepared in A4 size, 300 dpi, JPEG or PDF format and suitable for printing. 

• If there will be text in the works, it should be in Turkish or English.

• The technique is free.

How to upload cartoons?

• For participation, the application form at the link below must be filled out completely and the cartoons should be uploaded by the down link, September 25, 2020.

https://suyader.org.tr/cartoon-application/?lang=en 

• Applicants declare and undertake that all information they share is correct and that they accept all terms of participation conditions.

• Our institution is not responsible for the files that are sent in different formats and cannot be opened. • Artists can participate with a maximum number of 5 different works.

Evaluation for the Exhibition

• The cartoons that are evaluated and decided to be exhibited will be determined by SUYADER (Sustainable Life Association) and the Selective Committee to be determined by the Cartoon Workshop.

• Evaluation results – The owners of the cartoons found to be exhibited will be informed by e-mail on 

25 October 2020.

• The cartoons that are considered worth exhibiting will be published in an album and this album will be sent to the owners.

• All cartoons that are considered to be exhibited and not seen will remain in the archive of the organizing institution, posters, calendars, brochures, magazines, newspapers, etc. can be used in organs by giving reference to the owner of the work. In case of a right, the owner of the work will be informed. Those who send works to the exhibition are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

Exhibition

Recycled ecological papers will be used in album printing.

The cartoons that are worth to be exhibited will be exhibited in Ankara on a date to be determined depending on the flow of the pandemic process.

If exhibition halls are closed due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, an online exhibition will be held.

JURY

Emre Yılmaz -Cartoonist

Emine Aksoydan- Co-founder of SUYADER

Deniz Oslu- Engineer and sketcher

Çiğdem Demir- Designer and cartoonist.

Source: suyader.

XXII International Open Cartoon Contest with theme "Plastic" resolved!

Theme PLASTIC

Zielona Góra 2020

The Winners

GRAND PRIX –Mojmir Mihatov (Croatia) (Top)

1st Prize – Henryk Cebula (Poland)

2nd Prize – Julia Łuczak (Poland)

3rd Prize – Bernard Bouton (France).

About special awards we will inform later.