12.1.25

New Year and Christmas greetings exhibition in Cartoon Gallery website, Slovakia

This year's collection of New Year and Christmas greetings from cartoonists and cartoon fans from home and abroad has just been published on the Cartoon Gallery website: http://www.cartoongallery.eu/englishversion/happy-2025/.

8.1.25

The color catalog of the International Cartoon Festival in Saitama 2024, Japan

Received yesterday the color catalog of the International Cartoon Festival in Saitama, Japan. It was the 34th year of the festival in 2024. I participated in the event with two cartoons of mine, one titled "Here you are!" on the theme of UCHU which means "The Universe" and the second one of Free theme. Works on both themes by 40 Japanese and 39 foreign artists are included in the catalog of the exhibition that took place at Plaza North in November 2024. 
Saitama City is the place where Rakuten Kitazawa - the father of modern cartoon in Japan - spent his later years. The Saitama Municipal Cartoon Art Musem in the home to Kitazawa in his later years hold the Saitama-City Rakuten-Kitazawa Manga Awards competition each year. In 2024 they held the 39th edition and the winning cartoons are included in this collection book of "The Best Cartoons of Nippon" which are also displayed on the museum website here.
The standard A4-sized (21x29.7 cm) catalog of "The Best Cartoons of Nippon 2024" has almost 100 pages, about 70 of them covering the color and the monochrome cartoons participated in the festival and selected for the catalog. The remaining pages are the lists of the Japanese and the Foreign artists with their personal histories in both Japanese and English. With this perfectly designed book of art in hand, it is possible to compare the style and wit of the native and overseas manga/cartoon artists and enjoy the great humour in their works.
From Turkey are published the works of the following cartoonists in the catalog: Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu, Erdoğan Başol, Kamil Yavuz, Kemal Özyurt, Muammer Kotbaş, Musa Gümüş, Oğuz Gürel, Seyit Saatçi, and Hüseyin Çakmak from Cyprus.
Thank you to the festival organizers and the staff of Plaza North who sent me this great collection of manga/cartoon art.

3.1.25

The 30th International Cartoon Exhibition, Zagreb 2025, Croatia

30th INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION ZAGREB 2025
A. PARTICIPATION 
The organizer of the 30th International Cartoon Exhibition ZAGREB 2025 is Croatian Cartoonist Association. The exhibition is open to all authors over the age of 18, regardless of nationality, gender or profession. 
B. THEME: MEDIA 
TV, RADIO, NEWSPAPERS, WEB PORTALS, JOURNALISTS, PRESENTERS, EDITORS... 
C. ENTRIES 
Conditions of entry: 
1. Only digital artworks will be accepted: A4 size, 300 dpi, jpeg
2. Entries can be either black and white or coloured. 
3. The works should be named as follows: name.surname.country.number 
(in case of more than one work). 
4. The cartoons must not have been previously awarded on festivals. 
5. Maximum 3 entries may be submitted. 
D. DEADLINE 
Entry deadline is March 7th, 2025
E. ADDRESS 
Send your cartoons to: 
Within the e-mail participant should provide informations as follows: 
Name and Family Name 
Address (street and house number) 
Postal code and city 
Country 
Phone number 
F. PRIZES AND AWARDS 
First Prize - 1.000 EUR 
Second Prize - 500 EUR 
Third Prize - 300 EUR 
Five Special mentions 
G. OTHER CONDITIONS 
Every author whose work is included in the exhibition will receive a catalogue. 
The organizer reserves the right to reproduce the works sent to the Zagreb 2025 festival as the advertising material without being obliged to pay a fee to an author whose work may be used. 
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More on source: hdk.hr.