The 9th Alanya International Cartoon Competition 2025, Turkey

9TH ALANYA INTERNATIONAL

CARTOON COMPETITION SPECIFICATIONS

The International Mediterranean Cartoon Competition, which was first held in 2001 and last held in 2008, will be reorganized for the 9th time in 2025 - after 17 years - under its new name of Alanya International Cartoon Competition, in cooperation with Alanya Municipality and Alanya Tourism Promotion Foundation (ALTAV). 

SUBJECT OF THE COMPETITION: LIVING IN A WORLD WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

The Turkish Language Association has determined the concept of 2024 as “crowded loneliness”. While the world is preparing for a new order with artificial intelligence, it can be considered normal for the old people of the planet to struggle. Since we are now closer neighbors with our smart devices supported by artificial intelligence, we may feel lonely in crowds. Because technological developments that are accelerating day by day negatively affect our human relations the most. 

Although cultures are different, we know that neighborliness is highly valued in every society. In the old world where technology did not take over our lives to this extent, weren’t our neighbors the closest proof that we were not alone in crowds? 

Artificial intelligence-supported technologies are an inseparable part of our lives today and they don’t seem to have any intention of slowing down. As the old people of the new order, we continue to live in a world with artificial intelligence - with its pros and cons - and to get used to our new neighbors in this new world a little more every day. 

RULES OF THE COMPETITION: 

1. The competition is for all cartoonists from all over the world. 

2. Cartoons sent to the competition may have been published in any medium before, but musn’t have received an award from another competition before. 

3. Each competitor can submit a maximum of three cartoons. 

4. Cartoons that will send to the competition must be maximum size 30x40cm. 

5. Participation in the competition can be made either by mail or digitally through https://ulakbel.alanya.bel.tr/WebBasvuru/cartoon#/ , depending on the competitor's preference. 

6. The delivery address for cartoons sent by post is, “ALTAV - Tosmur Mah. İbrahim Bilgen Cad. No:8 PK:07400 Alanya/Antalya-Turkey”. 

7. Cartoons to be sent digitally via https://ulakbel.alanya.bel.tr/WebBasvuru/cartoon#/ must be in A4 size, 300dpi resolution and JPEG format. The competition jury is not responsible for files sent outside the specified specifications or files that are not opened. 

8. Those who will participate in the competition by mail must attach a short CV with a photo, including their name-surname, e-mail address and telephone number to the file they will send. 

9. Cartoons that are determined to be produced with artificial intelligence will be considered out of the competition. Even if a cartoon that is later understood to be a product of artificial intelligence wins, it will be considered invalid. 

10. Cartoons must be delivered to the relevant address or uploaded to https://ulakbel.alanya.bel.tr/WebBasvuru/cartoon#/ by one of the methods specified above, by April 01, 2025 at the latest. 

11. The competition jury will meet on April 07, 2025 and the competition results and details of the award ceremony will be announced on the www.altav.org.tr website on April 08, 2025. 

12. The top three cartoonists who win the competition will be presented with a roundtrip flight ticket and a one-week hotel stay in Alanya with their guests as a gift from ALTAV. 

13. The cartoons deemed worthy of being exhibited by the competition jury will be exhibited within the scope of the Alanya Culture-Art and Tourism Festival, which will be held between May 23-25, 2025, where the award ceremony will be held. 

14. If an album of the cartoons exhibited by ALTAV is published, a free copy of the album will also be sent to the addresses of the owners of the works. 

15. The cartoons sent to the competition will not be returned to the owners of the works. All cartoons sent to the competition, whether they win or not, may be used by ALTAV in cultural activities. The copyrights of the submitted works belong to the artist, and the owner of the works consents to the use of these works in products such as souvenirs sold for public benefit by ALTAV and Alanya Municipality. 

16. The participants in the competition are deemed to have accepted these terms from the outset. 

COMPETITION JURY (alphabetical order): 

Cihan Demirci (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Ferit Avcı (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Feyzi Açıkalın (Photographer / Türkiye) 

Halit Kurtulmuş Aytoslu (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Kamil Yavuz (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Meral Onat (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Musa Gümüş (Cartoonist / Türkiye) 

Nahid Maghsoudi (Cartoonist / Iran) 

Nimet Hacıkura (Alanya Municipality Culture and Social Affairs Director / Türkiye). 

AWARDS: 

First Prize : 70.000 TL + One round trip flight ticket + One week half board holiday for two in Alanya + Plaque + Certificate 

Second Prize : 50.000 TL + One round trip flight ticket + One week half board holiday for two in Alanya + Plaque + Certificate 

Third Prize : 30.000 TL + One round trip flight ticket + One week half board holiday for two in Alanya + Plaque + Certificate. 

Special Award in Memory of Deniz Som  : 15.000 TL + Plaque + Certificate 

 Special Award in Memory of Bedri Koraman : 15.000 TL + Plaque + Certificate  

Special Award in Memory of İbrahim Tapa : 15.000 TL + Plaque + Certificate.  

 Alanya Municipality Mention Award: Plaque + Certificate 

Alanya Tourism Promotion Foundation (ALTAV) Mention Award : Plaque + Certificate  

Alanya Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ALTSO) Mention Award : Plaque + Certificate  

Alanya Touristic Business Owners Association (ALTİD) Mention Award : Plaque + Certificate. 

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Source: Alanya Municipality .

The Anatolian Cartoonists Association, based in Bursa, Turkey, dissolves

Announcement to the Cartoon World, Turkish and International Cartoonists

Founded on February 28, 2007, and based in Bursa, the Anatolian Cartoonists Association has officially ceased its operations following the unanimous decision made during the 7th Ordinary General Assembly Meeting held on December 21, 2024. 

All official procedures regarding the closure of the association have been completed. The association's bank and postal accounts have been closed. The remaining balance of 2,175 Turkish Lira and 10 kuruş in the association's treasury has been donated to the Leukemia Foundation for Children (LÖSEV). 

On this occasion, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to: 

* All members of the Board of Directors and members who have voluntarily served the association from its inception to its closure, 

* All companies, associations, public institutions, organizations, and their employees who supported and collaborated with the association, 

* All cartoonists and cartoon enthusiasts who contributed to and supported the art of cartooning. 

We hereby announce that following the dissolution of the Anatolian Cartoonists Association, no individual or entity is authorized to carry out any transactions on behalf of the association. In such cases, neither the former Board of Directors nor any other individuals shall bear any responsibility. 

We firmly believe that the spirit of solidarity carried out in the name of the art of cartooning will continue in other fields. 

Respectfully announced to the public. 

Anatolian Cartoonists Association 

Board of Directors 

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Source: Halit Kurtulmus Aytoslu.

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/.

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.

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: 

E-mail: hdk.entries@gmail.com 

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.