30.10.20

Similarity: Naz Agaoglu - Payam Khalili

Naz Ağaoğlu
Theme: Child and Digital Addiction
2nd International Wise City Kocaeli Cartoon Contest (2018)
Entry work.
Payam Khalili
Theme: Social networks
1st International Competition "IT In Cartoons" 
Prize of magazine KRAINA (2020).

28.10.20

The 27th CartoonRendon International Festival 2020, Colombia

27th CARTOONRENDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
COLOMBIA 2020
RICARDO RENDÓN
The most relevant Colombian cartoon artist, born in Rionegro, Antioquia (1894 – 1931), called “The emperor” of cartoon. 
One of the most perceptive and refined XX century Latinamerican humorists, in his work the humor was satire. 
He stood out specially for his political cartoon. 
His cartoons were true radiographs of events and individuals. He was a pioneer of graphic advertising in Colombia. 
27th CARTOONRENDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 
26 years in tribute to Ricardo Rendón Bravo, The Festival, unique in Colombia’s history for it’s trajectory and continuity, has ennabled to see the perception of authors from more than 92 countries, protagonists of the changes and experiences of towns that through their humor contribute to humanity’s development. 
The sharp intelect and his universal language, achieve throughout cartoon, the dream and hope to erase territorial borders as ideological borders that keep us from living in harmony and inhibit us from visualize freedom as a principle of peace and coexistence. 
TERMS: 
1) The contest is open to all of cartoon artist worldwide. 
2) The last day for participation is on Wednesday, November 18 of 2020
3) The contest’s Theme is: 
LEARNINGS FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 
Today the Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world, we see the fear and suffering that it has produced, while we have experienced a state of global quarantine. The pandemic highlights the scope of social inequalities and teaches us that we must change many things to improve the world, from respecting the natural environment, rethinking education-culture and the integral values of being. 
Every crisis brings an opportunity, the coronavirus brought its own ... What will be yours? That of your people? What have we learned from the pandemic? 
4) Each participant can submit a maximum of three cartoons to the contest. 
5) It’s possible to participate with black and white or colored cartoons. 
6) We kindly request that those who will participate in our contest, fill out the entry form and send their cartoons digitally to contestcartoonrendon2020@gmail.com attached as a doc. in A4 size, 300 dpi, JPEG or TIFF format, a maximum of 3 MB per cartoon, including the registration form (name, surname, postal address, country, email address, short biography, photo) until November 18, 2020
7) You can also participate in the contest with cartoons that have already been published or awarded previously, all the cartoons presented must be original. 
8) Selected cartoon artists will recieve a virtual catalog. 
9) The jury will be compossed by national and international cartoon artists. 
10) Results will be announced on about the end of November of 2020 and the winners must send the originals to the organization within 20 days. 
11) The presented cartoons won’t be returned, they’ll be part of the collection of the future Rionegro’s Cartoon Museum in agreement with Cartoonrendon agent. 
12) Filling out the application of participation and sending it involves that the contestants give their authorization to Rionegro’s town hall and Cartoonrendon to publish their work on any printed or digital media with all rights, including the transfer of these rights to thirds without any limit of time, place and number of publications. Besides, Rionegro’s town hall and/or Cartoonrendon will have the right to show, file and publish the works in other media not mentioned here. By sending the applicattion these conditions are considered as accepted. 
13) The organization reserves the right to exhibit works considered to attempt against individual or colective rights. The participation supposes the full acceptance of terms and conditions. 
AWARDS: 
They are subject to taxes according to tax regulations. And they will be paid to the TRM. 
1° Prize – 1.000 US 
2° Prize – 500 US 
3° Prize – 300 US 
4° Prize – 200 US 
Mentions. 
The Festival will take place between November 20 and 22, and the award ceremony on November 20, at the MAR Museum of Arts, in the city of Santiago de Arma de Rionegro. Work must be sent to: 
FICHA DE INSCRIPCIÒN / ENTRY FORM on source.

25.10.20

CARTUNAL: First world hall of graphic humor National University of Colombia

CARTUNAL: First world hall of graphic humor National University of Colombia
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA, MEDELLÍN FACULTY OF SCIENCES
INVITE ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

A day without laughing is a day lost. 
Charles Chaplin 

The cartoon covers many nuances and critical situations of the human being in their relationships with others and with their environment, these situations include what is a reason for academic attention for the University. We turn to caricature for its universal language, for its power to communicate and change the heavy into the light. 
From the National University of Colombia, Medellín Headquarters we offer a space for the academic community and society in general: the First CartUNAL World Cartoon Exhibition. 
We invite you to this meeting that widely summons cartoonists from around the world to present unpublished works that invite you to discuss, reflect, create and propose on a topic of global relevance: Peace
Competition
Contest prizes: 
1st place: A laptop and Honorable Mention. Specifications: 14 ”Dell brand laptop with the following features: Windows 10 Pro operating system; Intel® Core ™ i3 processors; 8 GB of DDR4 memory; 1 TB HD 5400 rpm storage; VGA-RJ45-HDMI ports, Webcam Integrated / Audio Hight Quality, BluetooTh 4.0; A year of warranty. 
2nd place: 1,000,000 = (One million Colombian pesos) and Honorable Mention. 
3rd place: 500,000 = (Five hundred thousand Colombian pesos) and Honorable Mention. 
4th, 5th and 6th place =  Digital Honor Certifications. 
Competition rules: 
Theme: Peace 
Each participant can submit a single (1) work of their complete authorship. Clarification: any artist who submits more than one work will be disqualified 
Only unpublished works can participate. 
To participate in the contest, the author must fill out the form "Copyright" with which he declares that it is an original, unpublished work, that he owns all rights to the work and that he authorizes the National University of Colombia to reproduce the work with academic purposes and in everything related to the contest. 
Contestants close to the contest jury or the organizers, in any degree of consanguinity or affinity, are not accepted. Clarification: if an artist wishes to participate in the contest and has the disability described in this paragraph, he will have the option to participate without competing, in any case he must comply with the other items described in the contest rules. To do so, in the registration form you must add the text "Participate without contest" after the title of the work. 
The work must be done in a minimum size A4 (210 X 297mm.), maximum size A3 (297 X 420mm.).
The technique is free, hand drawing or digital, black and white or color. 
The work must be graphically explicit, without text or explanation, without photographic or image support. 
The work, which with its content is exclusive or violates individual or collective rights, will be withdrawn from the contest and will not be considered in any way. 
The submission of the works is only through the mail cartunal_med@unal.edu.co, size 300 dpi, in JPG format. In the submission you must indicate: title of the work, full name of the author, nationality, email, photo and brief CV of the author, in English or Spanish. 
The deadline for receipt of works is punctual without exception, December 31, 2020. Note: Colombia's time zone must be taken into account. 
The works of the contest will be evaluated anonymously, by a national and international jury, which will privilege the universal concept and objectivity of the subject (70% of the qualification), and the technique used (30% of the qualification). 
The works that meet all the requirements of the contest and are shortlisted will be published on the official website of the event prior to the award ceremony, in order to put into public consideration everything related to similarities, foreign copyright or any other type of objection. 
The 40 best selected works will be printed and exhibited in the “Espacio del Hombre” of the Efe Gómez Library of the National University of Colombia, Medellín Headquarters, in April 2021, if conditions allow it. 
The jury is completely autonomous to choose the winning works and also those that will be included in the exhibition and the Virtual catalog (PDF). 
It is understood that the participant fully accepts the rules and conditions stipulated in the contest, with their participation. 
The results will be announced through the Salóncartunal.edu.co page in the month of April 2021. 
The winners will be previously notified via email. 
The winner of the first place agrees to send the original work to the National University of Colombia, Medellín Headquarters, and assume the shipping costs. If the work is digital, the author must print the work (with the measures indicated in the contest) and sign it with the number "1", for submission. 
All postal costs and bank deductions will be borne by the winner. 
The prize will be paid in Colombian pesos as described, except for the first prize, which is in kind. 
It is clarified that all the costs of sending the prizes and others will be assumed in full by the winner. 
On the website www.cartunal.com everything related to the passing and news of the event will be reported (calendars, exhibition sites, workshops, etc.) 
The organizers have the willingness to address the concerns that are generated, via email. 

23rd Euro-kartoenale 2021, Belgium: Chances and Opportunities

23rd Euro-kartoenale 2021
Dear Madam, Sir,
For the 23rd time already our association is organizing its biennial cartoon contest.
In the first place we would like to thank all participants of the previous editions for their continued participation in this contest. 
The continued increase in the number of participants, entries and participating countries, and especially the quality of your work, proves the trust you put in our organization.
Also this year you can upload your drawings with the online platform : www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/register .
Don’t forget to check your personal data in ‘my profile’.
We hope we can count on your collaboration and we wish you a lot of success with 'CHANCES AND OPPORTUNITIES'.
RULES
1. Theme: ”CHANCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
DEADLINE : 10th of January 2021.
2. The number of entries is limited to 5. Any kind of graphical technique will be accepted. The works may not have been exhibited, published or awarded before. The drawings shall not bear subtitles.
3. You can send your works in two ways:
Register and upload your cartoons on our website www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/register
OR
send them by regular post to the following address: EURO-KARTOENALE - RENÉ D’HUYVETTERSTRAAT 5C - 9770 KRUISHOUTEM - BELGIUM – EUROPE
On our website you can check the list of participants to see if you works have arrived. The entry list is updated daily.
4. The drawings shall have the following dimensions: A4 – 300 dpi, maximum 3MB for digital works.
5. The drawings sent by post must bear, on the reverse side, the surname, forename and address of the participant.
6. By participating, the artist agrees with this rules and authorize the organizers to publish the submitted works in the catalogue and for the promotion of the exhibition. For any other use of the cartoons the permission of the cartoonist is previously requested.
7. The following prizes are awarded:
1st prize € 1.800,00 + trophy
2nd prize € 1.500,00 + trophy
3rd prize € 1.300,00 + trophy
Best European cartoon € 900,00
Best Belgian cartoon € 900,00
Prize of the ECC Personal exhibition in the ECC
On the occasion of the prize-giving ceremony, all the winners are invited for a stay of 3 days in Kruishoutem.*
8. On request the participants get a free catalogue. However, the postage costs are for their own account. They can also collect the catalogue at the European Cartoon Center. If your work is published in the catalogue a free copy is sent automatically.
9.  By participating the artist lends the submitted works to the organizers for itinerant exhibitions. Consequently, the selected works will remain at the disposal of the organizers until December 2022! The awarded works will become property of the organization.
10. The original entries will only be sent back by the organizers on written request. The organization can in no way be held responsible for eventually damaged or lost works.
11. If after announcement of the prizes, it appears that plagiarism has been committed, the jury can after deliberation withdraw the prize.
12. The international jury of cartoon professionals will meet in Kruishoutem on the 29th of January 2021. The complete list of jury members will be announced on our website after the expiry of the deadline.* 
13. The inauguration and prize-giving ceremony will take place on Saturday the 3rd of April 2021. The exhibition will run from the 4th of April till the 25th of June 2021.*
(*) If the corona pandemic results in specific restrictions on travelling or events the live jury meeting can be replaced by a digital meeting or the prize giving ceremony can be postponed or cancelled. We will look for alternatives.
Source: ecc-kruishoutem .

Results 1st International Kartal Municipality Covid-19 Cartoon Contest 2020, Turkey

1st International Kartal Municipality Covid-19 Cartoon Contest results


Competition Jury:
Vlamidir 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.

FIRST THREE AWARDS
Tošo Borković - Serbia - 1st Prize (Top)
Sajad Rafeei - Iran - 2nd Prize (Above)
Oleksiy Kustovsky - Ukraine - 3rd prize.

MENTION AWARDS
Ali Shahali - USA - Honorable Mention
Brady Izquierdo - Cuba - Honorable Mention
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov - Uzbekistan - Honorable Mention
Sadık Pala - Turkey - Honoroble Mention.

SPECIAL AWARDS
Ali Rastroo - Iran - Special Jury Prize
Javier Cubero Torres - Cuba - Special Jury Prize
Shahrokh Heidari - Iran - Bedri Koraman Special Prize
Osman Suroğlu - Turkey - Harvest Art Workshop Award
Yuksel Cengiz - Turkey - Kartal Municipality Award.

PROMOTION AWARDS
Kaan Özcal Aydın - Turkey - Özendirme 1
Volkan Lafçı - Turkey - Özendirme 2
Arat Baran Keskin -Turkey - Özendirme 3
Çağlar Okur - Turkey - Özendirme 4
Kerem Yüce - Turkey - Özendirme 5
Bora Küçük - Turkey - Özendirme 6.

23.10.20

11th International Tourism Cartoons Competition 2019 cancel Special Prize

Source: tourismcartoon.
Thank you to Enver Malkoç, the cartoonist, for providing the image. 

The 10th Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2021, Korea

The 10th Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2021, Korea
The SICACO Committee is inviting world cartoonists to take part in SICACO 2021 (the 10th Sejong International Cartoon Contest).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Thema section (titled Untact + Winwin) + Free section (Olympics, Children, etc.).
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297 mm × 420 mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items. (+3 Works)
4. Each entrant should provide title, name, age, address, career, e-mail, and telephone number on reverse.
5. The deadline for entry of original works is Aug. 31, 2021 (EXTENDED:) Sept. 30, 2021.
6. Entries should be addressed to the
Sejong Int'l Cartoon Institute 
450, Wolpyeong-dong 
Daejeon City, Seo-gu, Seoul 35221
Korea
.
7. The most creative cartoon will win the Grand prize of $3,000, Gold prize of $1,000, Silver prize of $500, Bronze prize of $300, and 300 Selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the cartoons at the City Gallery in Oct. 2021.
9. Submitted+donated cartoons will not be returned, but exhibited forever in Korean museums, art galleries, & public halls.
10. Your cartoon may be used for promotional purposes : cards, posters, catalogs, newspapers, magazine, and books etc.
From Dr.Lim, Cheong San, President of the Sejong Int’l Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon, Seoul 35221, Korea
C.P: 82-10-5425-6115 
E-mail: csanlim@naver.com 
http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr (all works DB). 
*
Deadline updated 13.08.2021 23:20.

22.10.20

Prize congratulations & Selection Results, SICACO 2020, Korea

Dear Sir, 
Congratulations to your prize for winning the SICACO 2020 contest. 
After the exhibition, we will send you the listing, catalog and card by international mail in November.
Thank you for your wonderful cartons in world-wide corona pandemics. We'd like to ask you in SICACO. 
* SICACO need winner's transferred address immediately. 
 * SICACO prefer hand-painted cartoons for Korean museums. 
 * SICACO accept works submitted with your agreement by mail. 
* SICACO only require yours by e-mail for clear book publishing. 
* SICACO 2021 (themed 'Untact + Winwin') request many fellow artists to participate. 
Good luck to you! See you in SICACO 2021! 
Dr. Lim, Cheong-san 
SICACO 2020, Chairman of the Steering Committee 
  
SICACO 2020 WINNERS LIST

Cover Prize / Shahrokh Heidari (France) 
Theme Cover Prize / Constantin Ciosu (Romania) 

Grand Prize / Askin Ayrancioglu (Turkey) 

Gold Prize / Mlhai Ignat (Romania) 
Silver Prize / Huseyin Cakmak (Cyprus) 
Silver Prize / Jitet Kustana (Indonesia) 
Bronze Prize / Agus Widodo (Indonesia) 
Bronze Prize / Engin Selcuk (Turkey) 
Bronze Prize / Won, Jong Hyuck (Korea) 

Special Prize / Nikola Listes (Croatia) 
Special Prize / Mete Agaoglu (Turkey) 
Special Prize / Emad Salehi (Iran) 
Special Prize / Rocio + Juana + Ines Munoz (Peru) 

Student Grand Prize / Yeom, Ji Hyeon (Korea), 18 y 
Student Gold Prize / Park, Hyeon A (Korea), 18 y 
Student Silver Prize / Shin, Hwa Young (Korea), 18 y 
Student Bronze Prize / Lee, Ye Som (Korea), 13 y 
Student Bronze Prize / Park, Joung Hoon (Korea), 18 y 
Student Bronze Prize / Hwang Chae Rin (Korea), 16 y 
Student Bronze Prize / Park, Jeong Hoon (Korea), 18 y 
Student Special Prize / Sube Nimet Kilic (Turkey), 14 y 
Student H.M. / Yasmin Rafizadeh (Iran), 17 y 
Student H.M. / Sara Tajvar (Iran), 14 y 
Student H.M. / Eren Gonculer (Turkey), 12 y 
Student S.P. / Arda Inan (Turkey), 12 y 
Student S.P. / Hasti Ilbeigi Asli (Iran), 14 y 
Student S.P. / Setayesh Rajabian (Iran), 15 y 
Student S.P. / Nimet Bicer (Turkey), 13 y 

Theme Prize / Musa Gumus (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Marijan Pavecic (Croatia) 
Theme Prize / Miro Stefanovic (Serbia) 
Theme Prize / Murteza Albayrak (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Hicabi Demici (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Lutfu Cakın (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Oktay Bingol (Turkey)
 Theme Prize / Luc Vernimmen (Belgium) 
Theme Prize / Sepideh Faramarzi (Iran) 
Theme Prize / Severin Sikanja (Serbia) 

Theme Prize / Mojmir Mihatov (Croatia) 
Theme Prize / Ika W. Burhan (Indonesia) 
Theme Prize / Bossens Philippe (Belgium) 
Theme Prize / Musa Keklik (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Octavian Covaci (Romania) 
Theme Prize / Damir Novak (Croatia) 
Theme Prize / Reyhaneh Fakoori (Iran) 
Theme Prize / Wei Chi, Liang (China) 
Theme Prize / Mileta Miloradovic (Serbia) 
Theme Prize / Goran Celicanin (Serbia) 

Theme prize / Zaenal Abidin (Indonesia) 
Theme Prize / Pierpaolo Perazzolli (Italy) 
Theme Prize / Milan Bukovac (Serbia) 
Theme Prize / Erico Junqueira Ayres (Brazil) 
Theme prize / Erdogan Basol (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Boboc Mihai-Gabriel (Romania) 
Theme Prize / Nahid Zamani (Iran) 
Theme prize / Marco De Angelis (Italy) 
Theme Prize / Miroslav Jakovljev (Serbia) 
Theme Prize / Patrick Heymans (Belgium) 

Theme Prize / Resad Sultanovic (Bosnia) 
Theme Prize / Constantin Pavel + Gabriel (Romania) 
Theme Prize / Sittipunt Tumying (Thailand) 
Theme Prize / Slobodan Obradovic (Serbia) 
Theme Prize / Darsono (Indonesia) 
Theme Prize / Li, Jing Shan (China) 
Theme Prize / Slobodan Butir (Croatia) 
Theme Prize / Anatoly Radin (Russia) 
Theme Prize / Mustafa Yildiz (Turkey) 
Theme Prize / Zdenko Puhin (Croatia) 

Theme Prize / Valery Momot (Ukraine) 
Theme Prize / Zhang, Ya Ming (China) 
Theme Prize / Radko Oketic (Slovenia) 

Achievement Award / Shahrokh Heidari (France) 
Achievement Award / Askin Ayrancioglu (Turkey) 
Achievement Award / Zhu, Zi Zun (China) 
Achievement Award / Tommy Thomdean (Indonesia) 
Achievement Award / Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan) 
Achievement Award / Dubovskyi Olexander (Ukraine) 
Achievement Award / Ronaldo Cunha Dias (Brazil) 
Achievement Award / Didie Sri Widiyanto (Indonesia) 
Achievement Award / Vladimir Stevovic (Serbia)
 Achievement Award / Roberto Castillo Rodriguez (Cuba) 

Achievement Award / Corradeschi Ghino (Italy) 
Achievement Award / Ilya Katz (Israel) 
Achievement Award / Milan Alasevic (Slovenia)
 Achievement Award / Aurel Stefan Alexandrescu (Romania) 

Best Cartoon / Shole Gordiz (Iran) 
Best Cartoon / Sokolov Sergey (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / Qiao, Wei (China) 
Best Cartoon / Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria) 
Best Cartoon / Venugopal Galisetty (India) 
Best Cartoon / Anatolii Belov (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / Milanko Kalicanin (Serbia) 
Best Cartoon / Bulent Okutan (Turkey) 
Best Cartoon / Andreas Antonos (Greece) 
Best Cartoon / Musa Kayra (Cyprus) 

Best Cartoon / Dr. Jan Tomaschoff (Germany) 
Best Cartoon / Wei, Li (China) 
Best Cartoon / Ekaterina Vorobeva (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / Liviu Stanila (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Bogdan Petry & Horla Crisan (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Fotos Thimodeas (Greece) 
Best Cartoon / Alexander Shmidt (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / B. V. Panduranga Rao (India) 
Best Cartoon / Oguz Gurel (Turkey) 
Best Cartoon / Bernard Bouton (France) 

Best Cartoon / Daniele Zordan (Italy) 
Best Cartoon / Bozidar Vukelic-Boba (Croatia) 
Best Cartoon / Feng, Gui Bo (China) 
Best Cartoon / Hanusic Hule (Austria) 
Best Cartoon / Oleg Gutsol (Ukraine) 
Best Cartoon / Mihai Victor (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Djoko Susilo (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Grigoris Georgiou (Greece) 
Best Cartoon / Agus Harsanta (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Michal Graczyk (Poland) 

Best Cartoon / Jiri Srna (Czech) 
Best Cartoon / Mahtab Jami (Iran) 
Best Cartoon / Chiorean Cornel-Marin (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Kfir Weizman (Israel) 
Best Cartoon / Zbigniew Kolaczek (Poland) 
Best Cartoon / Dinildomar das Chagas de Moura (Brazil) 
Best Cartoon / Suratno (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Ferreol Murillo Fuentes (Costa Rica) 
Best Cartoon / Andrzej Krawczak (Poland) 
Best Cartoon / Pascal Gelu (Romania) 

Best Cartoon / Ksenija Cirlc (Serbia) 
Best Cartoon / Krotos Tadeusz (Poland) 
Best Cartoon / Liu, Qiang (China) 
Best Cartoon / Louis Pol (Australia) 
Best Cartoon / Valeriu Kurtu (Germany) 
Best Cartoon / Raed Khalil (Belgium) 
Best Cartoon / Stephen Mumberson (England) 
Best Cartoon / Heino Partanen (Finland) 
Best Cartoon / Abdul Qodir (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Yao, Ming (China) 

Best Cartoon / Darko Pavic (Croatia) 
Best Cartoon / Marian Lupu (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Li, Buyi (China) 
Best Cartoon / Nicolas Koundouros (Greece) 
Best Cartoon / Ismail Kera (Czech) 
Best Cartoon / Artuche Felix (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Konstantinos Tselios (Greece) 
Best Cartoon / Hong, Xue (China) 
Best Cartoon / Sinchinov Evgeniy (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / Misaila C. Niculina (Romania) 

Best Cartoon / Roman Peshkov (Russia) 
Best Cartoon / Misaila A. Septimiu (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / / Cai, Wai Dong (China) 
Best Cartoon / Rus Adrian (Romania) 
Best Cartoon / Hou Xiao Qiang (China) 
Best Cartoon / Masafumi, Kikuchi (Japan) 
Best Cartoon / Behzad Ghafari (Canada) 
Best Cartoon / Luis Mendiguren Tarres (Spain) 
Best Cartoon / Momchil Kolchev (Bulgaria) 
Best Cartoon / Kemal Ozyurt (Turkey) 

Best Cartoon / Elisa Smiderle (Italy) 
Best Cartoon / Juli Sanchis Aguado (Spain) 
Best Cartoon / Carlo Sterpone (Italy) 
Best Cartoon / Omer Cam (Turkey) 
Best Cartoon / Leyla Tajvar (Iran) 
Best Cartoon / Mansoure Dehghani (Iran) 
Best Cartoon / Corden Dulk (Netherlands) 
Best Cartoon / Gerald Peigneux (France) 
Best Cartoon / Danny Yustiniadi (Belgium) 
Best Cartoon / Mark Winter (England) 

Best Cartoon / Vitaliy Levitskiy (Ukraine) 
Best Cartoon / Bambang Sulistyo (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Steffen Jahsnowski-Herschel (Germany) 
Best Cartoon / Borislav Hegedusic (Croatia) 
Best Cartoon / Sukrlyadl (Indonesia) 
Best Cartoon / Luc Descheemaeker (Belgium) 

S.P / Hayrettin Oturgan (Turkey) 
S.P / Duru Ciftci (Turkey) 
S.P / Deniz Ilker Kuruoglu (Turkey) 
S.P / Wilson Tanium (Indonesia) 
S.P / Li, Wang, Xue Wei (China) 
S.P / Vaso Krcmar (Serbia) 
S.P / Achmad Cholid (Indonesia) 
S.P / Evelyn Somya De Paz Samayoa (Guatemala) 
S.P / Muhammad Nasir (Indonesia) 
S.P / Helia Salmani (Iran) 

S.P / Vasantha Hosabettu (India) 
S.P / Nikolay Slavov Fitkov (Bulgaria) 
S.P / Partono (Indonesia) 
S.P / Junko Whyte (Ireland) 
S.P / Aguseko Santoso (Indonesia) 
S.P / Haidari Natalija (Belgium) 
S.P / Ratko Maricic (Croatia) 
S.P / Mwangi Cyrus Kinyanjui (Kenya) 
S.P / Hlektra Soulh (Greece) 
S.P / Dubravka Bodulic (Croatia) 

S.P / Huang, Rong Min (China) 
S.P / Oleg Gorbatchev (Finland) 
S.P / Nasim Sayaddokht (Iran) 
S.P / Zhao, Yun Sheng (China) 
S.P / Fahriye Citakli (Turkey) 
S.P / Khoiril Mawahib (Indonesia) 
S.P / Zahra Moradi (Iran) 
S.P / Youcef Aimeur (Algeria) 
S.P / Armin Ganjdeh (Iran) 
S.P / Tode Blazevski (Macedonia) 

S.P / Kiana Shirin (Iran) 
S.P / Vitaly Bondar (Belarus) 
S.P / Delaram Gholami (Iran) 
S.P / Njuguna Mbutha (Kenya) 
S.P / Mahyar Jafari Rad (Iran) 
S.P / Zidarov Veselin (Bulgaria) 
S.P / Mahdieh Mohseni (Iran) 
S.P / Nikolay Chernyshev (Russia) 
S.P / Amjad Halabi Nejad (Iran) 
S.P / Mobina Mahdzad (Iran) 

S.P / Park, Ki So (Korea) 
S.P / Kim, Heung Su (Korea) 
S.P / Aliyeh Mazaheri (Iran) 
S.P / Cho, Kwang Gaun (Korea) 
S.P / Lee, Ji Ean (Korea) 
S.P / Lee, Yeon Hui (Korea) 
S.P / Cho, Tae Hui (Korea) 
S.P / Yun, Sol (Korea) 
S.P / Jung, Jae Min (Korea) 
S.P / Kim, Seo Yeon (Korea) 

S.P / Kim, Min Seon (Korea) 
S.P / Jeon, Yu Rim (Korea) 
S.P / Jang, Eun Jeong (Korea) 
S.P / Noh, Hye Ji (Korea) 
S.P / Kim, Gyu Ri (Korea) 
S.P / Ha, Yeong Joon (Korea) 
S.P / Lee, Do Hyeon (Korea) 
S.P / Park, Jin Young (Korea) 
S.P / Yang, Min Uk (Korea) 

H.M / Irina Galchina (Russia) 
H.M / Elnaz Karimdadashi (Iran) 
H.M / Aloisio Andrade (Brazil) 
H.M / Jia Rui Jun (China) 
H.M / Ahmet Esmer (Turkey) 
H.M / Raffael Blumenberg (Israel) 
H.M / Ferhat Demirbas (Turkey) 
H.M / Sepideh Aghaei (Iran) 
H.M / Manver Alvarez Junco (Spain) 
H.M / Zlatko Krstevski (Macedonia) 

H.M / Damasus Nugroho Jusilo (Indonesia)
 H.M / Zulkuf ABA (Turkey) 
H.M / Soheil Rokni (Arab Emirates)
 H.M / Lou Pei Dong (China) 
H.M / Lim, Han Na (Korea) 
H.M / Amin Aminaei (Netherlands) 
H.M / Cristina Dohatcu (U.S.A) 
H.M / Chei, Kwang Jae (Korea) 
H.M / Park, Ju Ho (Korea) 
H.M / Niu, Yan An (Korea) 

H.M / Lee, Hye In (Korea) 
H.M / Kwon, Ah Yeon (Korea 
H.M / Kim, Dong Geon (Korea) 
H.M / Kim, Jeong Eun (Korea) 
H.M / Shin, Bom (Korea) 
H.M / Ha, Yeong Hwang (Korea) 
H.M / Oh, Ju Eun (Korea) 
H.M / Jeon, Yebin (Korea) 
H.M / Cho, Woo Jin (Korea) 
H.M / Yoon, Jin Hyeok (Korea) 

H.M / No, Ji Hyeon (Korea) 
H.M / Choi, Jeong Yun (Korea) 
H.M / Jeong, Bo Kyeong (Korea) 
H.M / Kim, Seung Hyun (Korea) 
H.M / Na, Eun Ji (Korea) 
H.M / Kim, Chae Min (Korea) 
H.M / Jung, Seong Ung (Korea) 
H.M / Lee, Su Hyang (Korea) 
H.M / Hwang, Hyeon Jeong (Korea) 
H.M / Kim, Min Jae (Korea) 

H.M / Kim, Yu Na (Korea) 
H.M / Son, Eun Ji (Korea) 
H.M / Lee, Seo Hyeon (Korea) 
H.M / Oh, Seo In (Korea) 
H.M / Gong, Gyeong Ju (Korea) 
H.M / Lee, Gang Bee (Korea) 
H.M / Jeon, Moon Sic (Korea) 
H.M / Park, Su Yeon (Korea) 

Student S.P / Ko, Eun Seo (Korea), 18y 
Student S.P / Wi, Jae Kyeong (Korea), 18y 
Student S.P / Yeo, Hye Eun (Korea), 18y 
Student S.P / Ko, Ha Seon (Korea), 18y 
Student S.P / Kim, Sol (Korea), 18y 

Student H.M / Park, Su Bin (Korea), 12y 
Student H.M / Kim, Cho Hee (Korea), 18y 
Student H.M / Kim, Tae Yeong (Korea), 18y 
Student H.M / Nam, Jeong Woo (Korea), 18y 

Webtoon / Eder Santos (Brazil) 
Webtoon / Bladmir Kazhenovsky (Ukraine) 
Webtoon / Qasim Qapalan (Iraq) 
Webtoon / Ali Miraee (Iran) 
Webtoon / Mahmood Nazari (Iran) 
Webtoon / (Saudi Arabia) 
Webtoon / Tammam Darwish (Syria) 
Webtoon / German Osuna (Colombia) 
Webtoon / Via Bruno Saetti (Italy) 
Webtoon / Muammer Kotbas (Turkey) 

Webtoon / Abdullah Ibnu Thalhah (Indonesia) 
Webtoon / Tin Myo Aung (Myanmar) 
Webtoon / Baker Alhashki (Jordan) 
Webtoon / Sun Shen Ying (China) 
Webtoon / Ross Thomson (England) 
Webtoon / Somaye Shoghi (Iran) 
Webtoon / Saeed Sadeghi (Iran).

(Updated 20.11.2020 19:00).

Golden Olive Humor Service Awards 2020

19th Olive Festival International Olive Humor Festival
Organizing Committee Members Announced the Results

2020 GOLDEN OLIVE HUMOR SERVICE AWARDS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED

(October 22, 2020 - Girne) Under the honorary chairmanship of Girne Mayor Nidai Güngördü, in line with the decision taken by the members of the International Olive Humor Festival Organizing Committee, consisting of the representatives of Kyrenia Municipality and the Cyprus Turkish Cartoonists Association, Cyprus Turkish Humor Culture and World Cartoon Art ' The winners of the traditional “Golden Olive Humor Service Awards” given to people who have made significant contributions to the company in the past or today were determined. 
At the evaluation meeting held by the members of the International Olive Humor Festival Organizing Committee consisting of M. Serhan Gazioğlu, Derman Atik, Musa Kayra, Selen Selışık and Hüseyin Çakmak, under the honorary chairmanship of Kyrenia Mayor Nidai Güngördü, "2020 Golden Olive Humor Service Awards" The winners were determined as follows: 
Utku Karsu
(For His Contributions to Turkish Cypriot Cartoon Art),
Mahmut İslamoğlu
(For His Work on Humorous Poetry - Stoning and Cypriot Humor Culture);
Cemal Tunceri
(For His Contributions to Turkish Cypriot Cartoon Art);
Biler Demircioğlu
(Due to His Works in Humorous Theater and Humorous Play - Parody);
Alberto Morales Ajubel
(For His Contributions to Cuban, Spanish, and World Cartoon Art);
Semih Poroy
(For His Contributions to Turkish and World Cartoon Art).
The 2020 Golden Olive Humor Service Awards will be awarded on a date to be announced later. The awards to be presented to the artists will consist of “Golden Olive Sculpture” and “Award Diploma”. 

INTERNATIONAL OLIVE HUMOR FESTIVAL
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

20.10.20

Semarang International Cartoon Festival 2020, Indonesia

SICARFEST 2020
Semarang International Cartoon Festival 2020, Indonesia
SICARFEST #1 2020 (Semarang International Cartoon Festival) was held in 2020 by the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Art, Universitas Negeri Semarang (Unnes). The theme of this exhibition is Educational Cartoons for COVID-19. All artists from all over the world are expected to contribute to educating the society about the importance of maintaining health by adhering to the existing health protocol regulations during COVID-19. 
This theme was determined by the concern of the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Art, UNNES about the spread of COVID-19. Inevitably education will provide understanding to students to be more aware of implementing healt protocols. Through education, students will also mentally and physically be trained to be more immune to COVID-19, so online education must still be done. For this spirit, the Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, UNNES held the SICARTFEST #1 2020 event to educate and entertain the society through cartoon exhibitions. 
Terms of Work 
Works at the SICARTFEST exhibition must meet the criteria: 
* Explain the response to COVID-19 from a comedy and educational perspective on COVID-19. 
* Each participant can send only 1 cartoon. Write a description of the work: a) full name, b) title, c) media, d) technique, e)email address, and f) country. 
Write the concept of the work from the idea of creation (the beginning of finding ideas). 
* Sent cartoon must be 300 DPI resolution, JPG format. 
Timeline 
This exhibition will be enlivened with several parallel events: 
01-12 November 2020: submission artwork 
09 November 2020: Creative Cartoon Waorkshop 
16 November 2020: Opening Cartoon Exhibition 
20 November 2020: Special award funniest, insightful & actual 20 favorites artist 
22 November 2020: Indonesian Cartoon Talk (Bincang Kartunis Indonesia CAKARIN) 
Further Information: 
Contact person: 
+6285299795065 (Ichsan) 
+6285225236536 (Nia) 
+6281390111765 (Athian) 
Total Prize: IDR 35.000.000 
Source: goldpencil.

19.10.20

Similarity: Fernandes - Gumus - Takjoo

Afonso Carlos Fernandes DICACO 2000.

Musa Gümüş 2. KalDer 2015 2nd Prize.

Results of the 25th International Exhibition of Cartoons, Zagreb 2020, Croatia

25th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION
ZAGREB 2020
Theme: Cuisine
The 25th International Exhibition of Cartoons ZAGREB 2020
has seen the arrival of 1.061 works of 439 authors from 60 countries.

THE WINNERS

FIRST PRIZE
MOJMIR MIHATOV, Croatia (Top)
SECOND PRIZE
GRIGORI KATZ, Israel
THIRD PRIZE
JAVAD TAKJOO, Iran.

SPECIAL MENTIONS
FRANO CEBALO
, Croatia
JUAN G. BENAVIDES FORMAS
, Spain
VALENTIN GEORGIEV
, Bulgaria
OLEG GUTSOL
, Ukraine
PAL LEPHAFT
, Serbia.

17.10.20

Results of the 9. International Cartoon Contest, Kyrenia 2020, Cyprus

MUNICIPALITY OF KYRENIA
CYPRIOT – TURKISH CARTOONISTS ASSOCIATION
9. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2020
(KYRENIA – CYPRUS)

FINAL RESULTS

JURY MEMBERS:
Nidai Güngördü (Cyprus), M. Serhan Gazioğlu (Cyprus), Derman Atik (Cyprus), Musa Kayra (Cyprus), Selen Selışık (Cyprus), Hüseyin Çakmak (Cyprus).

Evaluation Date:
21 – 25 September 2020 Kyrenia Municipality Art Gallery (Kyrenia – Cyprus) 
Country:
62
Participant:
289
Work:
887

PRIZES 
Grand Prize (Free Section): 1.500 Euro + Golden Olive Statue + Diploma 
Ali Rastroo (Iran) (Top)

OLIVE SECTION 
First Prize: 750 Euro + Golden Olive Statue 
+ Kyrenia Municipality Prize (Diploma) 
Ayhan Alkan (United Kingdom) (Above)
Second Prize: Silver Olive Statue 
+ Cyprus Turkish Cartoonists Association Prize (Diploma) 
Elahe Khoraman (Iran) 
Third Prize: Bronze Olive Statue 
+ Olive Festival Prize (Diploma) 
Zhaleh Yoosefinezhad (Iran).
 
FREE SECTION 
First Prize: 750 Euro + Golden Olive Statue 
+ Kyrenia Mayor Special Prize (Diploma) 
Mustafa Tozakı (Cyprus) 
Second Prize: Silver Olive Statue 
+ Olive Humor Festival Prize (Diploma) 
Damir Novak (Croatia) 
Third Prize: Bronze Olive Statue 
+ Ramiz Gökçe Special Prize (Diploma) 
Grigoris Georgiou (Greece).
 
OLIVE SECTION – FINALIST PRIZES 
A. K. M. Firoz (Bangladesh) 
Abbas Kameli (Iran) 
Abbas Naaseri (Iran) 
Ahmed Khabali (Morroco) 
Amir Beigzadeh Nonakaran (Iran) 
Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu (Turkey) 
Bapak Sudarmanto (Indonesia) 
Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu (Romania) 
Chiorean Cornel – Marin (Romania) 

Damir Novak (Croatia) 
Daniel Eduardo Varela (Argentina) 
Deniz İlker Kuruoğlu (Turkey) 
Duru Çiftçi (Turkey) 
Firuz Kutal (Norway) 
Gennady Nazarov (Ukraina) 
Gerald Peigneux (France) 
Guibao Gai (China) 
Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu (Turkey) 
Hasan Ceylan (Turkey) 
Hasan Omidi (Iran) 
Husan Sodiqov (Uzbekistan) 

Konstantin Kazanchev (Ukraina) 
Lee Hyun Sik (South Korea) 
Leon De Borger (Belgium) 
Louis Pol (Australia) 
Malatesh M. Garadimani (India) 
Marco D'Agostino (Italia) 
Marina Gorelova (Belarus) 
Mbah Darsono (Indonesia) 
Mehmet Zeber (Turkey) 
Muammer Kotbaş (Turkey) 
Musa Keklik (Turkey) 
Mustafa Tozakı (Cyprus) 

Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraina) 
Raul Fernando Zuleta (Colombia) 
Sanaz Khadem Yahyavi (Iran) 
Seyyed Sajad Alizadeh (Iran) 
Shirin Gholipour (Iran) 
Slobodan Butir (Croatia) 
Sohrab Kheiri (Iran) 
Spiro Radulovic (Serbia) 
Steffen Jahsnowski (Germany) 
Tsocho Peev (Bulgaria) 
Turan Asan (Turkey) 

Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria) 
Valeri Tarasenko (Russia) 
Vishal V. Shenoy (India) 
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraina) 
Wesam Khalil (Egypt) 
Zoran Josic (Slovenia).
 
FREE SECTION – FINALIST PRIZES 
Akbar Rouhy (Iran) 
Ali Mosavi (Afghanistan) 
Anas El Lakkis (Lebanon) 
Arif Albayrak (Cyprus) 
Artur Juhász (Hungary) 
Boris Erenburg (Israel) 
Daniel Eduardo Varela (Argentina) 
Darko Drljevic (Montenegro) 
David Hafez (USA) 
Dolgun Dalgıçoğlu (Cyprus) 

Ehsan Cheraghi Iranshahi (Iran) 
Ester Lauringson (Estonia) 
Fahriye Çıtaklı (Turkey) 
Farid Amir Sardari (Iran) 
Hamed Mortazavi Alavi (Iran) 
Hasan Ali Ismail (Syria) 
Hayrettin Oturgan (Turkey) 
Hossein Pourteymourin (Iran) 
Jamal Dana (Iran) 
Kemal Özyurt (Turkey) 

Lan Bo (China) 
Leily Salimi (Iran) 
Liang Yu (China) 
Lijie Yang (China) 
Liviu Stanila (Romania) 
Mahdieh Sabbaghkar (Iran) 
Manoj Chopra (India) 
Mohammad Raei (Iran) 
Mohsen Ebrahimi (Iran) 
Muhammad Nasir (Indonesia) 
Musa Keklik (Turkey) 
Myagmar Amarkhuu (Mongolia) 

Oleksy Kustovsky (Ukraine) 
Parisa Norollahi (Iran) 
Peter Niuwendijik (Holland) 
Rahim B. Asghari (Iran) 
Razie Darzi (Iran) 
Roberto Castillo Rodriguez (Cuba) 
Ronaldo Cunha Dias (Brazil) 
Saeed Sadeghi (Iran) 
Samane Karimi (Iran) 
Shavkat Muzaffar (Uzbekistan) 
Shirin Gholipour (Iran) 
Sohrab Kheiri (Iran) 
Soltan Soltanli (Azerbaijan) 
Spiro Radulovic (Serbia) 

Viktor Holub (Ukraina) 
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraina) 
Wesam Khalil (Egypt) 
Yalda Hasheminezhad (Iran).
 
(*) The award ceremony will not be held this year due to Covid-19. If the conditions are suitable, the award ceremony will be held in October 2021. 

STEERING COMMITTEE