International Festival of aphorism & caricature - Strumica 2011

C O N T E S TTheme :
C A R N I V A L – E R O T I C A
Aphorism:In this category each author can participate with maximum of 10 aphorisms, printed in three copies, completed with code and particulars about the author, and set in sealed envelope.
The authors are allowed to participate with more works, each as group of 10(ten) aphorisms and marked with particular code.
Caricature:In this category, the authors can participate and send 3 caricatures, maximum.
The technique is on their own choice, and dimensions A/4.
Particulars about the authors should be written at the back side of the work.
Contest due date:
The works will be accepted up to: February 05, 2011, at latest.
Awards:Three main prizes will be awarded: Golden, Silver and Bronze Plaque.
The Organizer retains the right to award some additional prizes.
Address:The works should be send to:
NUCK “Anton Panov’
Blvd. “Goce Delcev” bb
2400 Strumica, R Macedonia
with note: To the Festival of aphorism and Caricature.
Copyrights:
The works received ,remain in property of the Organizer and the author,
and they have the right to its public presentation, catalogue prepare or other publication.
Evaluation:
The works received in due time will be reviewed and evaluated by competent jury commission.
The presentation of the works –exhibition and the Reward Ceremony will come to: March 07, 2011.
Contact -Further information
Tel: ++389 (0)34 322 182
E-mail: trimerotikon@yahoo.com

Plastic Surgery is the theme for the 7th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2011

The 7th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2011
Under auspices of the Syrian Ministry of Information Syria Cartoon website presents:
The 7th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2011
Regulations:
• Theme 1: Plastic Surgery
• Theme 2: Free (Humour)
• Only 1 cartoon, A4, 300 dpi, JPG/JPEG and free techniques.
• Deadline: 20 / 2 / 2011
• Prizes: Golden, Silver, Bronze and 5 Special Prizes.
• Only cartoons which will be selected for the exhibition, will receive certificate and the contest album.
• Jury members will be considered as participants in the exhibition and represent their own countries. Their names will be automatically added to the List of Participants. They will participate only in exhibition, not in contest (just honorary participation).
• Cartoons can be used for any promotion purposes (printing, websites, posters, invitation cards....etc) without the permission of the artist and without any payment.
• Cartoons with sexual or nudity contents will not enter the contest.
• Cartoons must be sent to: fecosyria@gmail.com along with artist’s recent C.V, address (doc format), and personal photo / or address: Syria- Damascus- P.O Box:6540
• Results and contest album (PDF) will be published on Syria Cartoon website: www.syriacartoon.net/
Raed Khalil, President and Director Tel: (+963) 944-704973.

17th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of Beer: Golden Keg 2011

17th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of BEER: GOLDEN KEG 2011 - SlovakiaOn Friday, 1st April 2011, an exhibition of the best competing works, a festive announcement of the results and the handing of prizes to the most successful authors of the 17th competition in accordance with the Jury’s decision will take place as follows:
GRAND PRIZE (Grand Prix) Golden Keg and 500 €
1st Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 200 €
2nd Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 150 €
3rd Prize Small Golden KEG and 100 €
The Competition Jury reserves the right not to grant any of the prizes or to grant other special prizes.
The organisers will accept for the competition all works that will be delivered at the address of the Šarišská gallery in Prešov by 21st February 2011.
The organisers of the competition reserve the right to publish selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition, while each competitor will receive a competition catalogue.
Competition rules:1. Each author can send at maximum five original works, including graphic techniques.
2. The competition is open to anybody and everybody, and it is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The formats of the works should not exceed the A4 dimensions.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the reverse and bear the author's full address.
5. The rewarded works will become property of the BEER GALLERY in Prešov.
6. Send your works at the address:
Šarišská Galéria (p. Fedor VICO) ul. Hlavná 51, 08001 Prešov SLOVAKIA.Please clearly mark the envelope with the word "PIVO".
E-mail: fedorvico@gmail.com

Deadline in Sporthumor 2011: February 28 (postmark)

Source: feco-spain

10th Euro-Fruitcartoonale Sint-Truiden 2011 - Belgium

Theme: Fruit: Feel Good in the Mood
Deadline: 9 February 2011
Rules in languages at ecc

Winners in the 10th Barakaldo International Graphic Humour Contest

The names and nationalities of the winners of the 10th Barakaldo international graphic humour contest 2010:
1º Darko Drljevic – Montenegro (See above).
2º Leandro Ezequiel – Argentina.
3º Nikola Listes – Croatia.
4º Fred Martínez – Cuba.
5º Raúl Barbolla - Spain.
It will be possible to see these works in:
http://www.barakaldo.org/hermes

International Competition: Fax for Peace, Fax for Tolerance 2011

Deadline: 28 February 2011
Download rules in PDF

Regulations of the International Exhibition Satyrykon 2011 - Poland

PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION SATYRYKON-LEGNICA 2011
1. The SATYRYKON 2010 International Exhibition is an open competition.
2. The objects of the competition are drawings, graphics and other works of fine arts and photography created with the use of optional techniques, being originals, completed within the recent two years (2010-2011), and qualified by artists to:
> HUMOR (drawing without captions preferred)
> SOCIAL SATIRE (drawing without captions preferred).
3. WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the competition.
4. The format of works - maximum A3 (297 x 420 mm).
5. Works should be sent or delivered by February 7, 2011, packed in a protective cover to:
Miedzynarodowa Wystawa SATYRYKON - LEGNICA 2011 Akademia Rycerska, Chojnowska 2, 59-220 Legnica POLAND
Organisers are not responsible for transport damages.
Works sent via electronic means will not be accepted.
6. Participation in the competition is free of charge.
However, organisers reserve the right to include one of the submitted works in the Satyrykon Gallery.
The work, chosen by the author, will in this way cover our costs of mailing.
7. Works should be accompanied by their author's photo or caricature, a short biographical note and a filled application form (please use capitals).
PRIZES
1. Works for the competition will be qualified by the International Jury.
2. The Jury will award the following prizes:
* GRAND PRIX SATYRYKON 2010 - pure gold key and purse amounting to 6.000 PLN
* 2 gold medals and purses amounting to 5.500 PLN
* 2 silver medals and purses amounting to 5.000 PLN
* 2 bronze medals and purses amounting to 4.500 PLN
* 4 special prizes amounting to 4.000 PLN each
* the Legnica Culture Centre director's award and purse amounting to 4.000 PLN for photographic work.
Jury has the right of final distribution of the statutory prizes, change of their amount, or non-awarding them or non-awarding the GRAND PRIX SATYRYKON. Jury's decisions are final.
The competition results will be announced on March 1, 2011 at Satyrykon web site: http://www.satyrykon.pl/ .
N o t e !
Awards are subject to taxation according to the current regulations. The condition to pay the authors is their arrival for the opening of the exhibition and collection of their awards by December 15, 2011, or it can be transferred into a bank account in a currency specified by the author.
PRIVILAGES OF PARTICIPANTS
1. Authors of work qualified to the exhibition are given a presentation copy of the exhibition catalogue and a free-of-charge place in the catalogue.
2. Organisers provide competition prize-winners with gratuitous participation in the SATYRYKON 2010 event on June 16-19, 2011.
3. Works sent to the exhibitions will be exhibited in the country and abroad after the main exhibition, and then will be returned to their authors by the end of 2012. We kindly ask the authors to notify us about any changes to their address data.
FINAL PROVISIONS
1. The organisers reserve the right to use the sent works for SATYRYKON advertising purposes without any special fees paid to the authors: to be exhibited and reproduced in a variety of advertising materials, as well as printed and circulated in catalogues.
2. The prize-winning works become the property of the organisers and will be included in the collection of the Satyrykon Gallery.
3. The exhibition organisers are the final judges in interpretation of the regulations.
4. Sending her/his work the artist agrees to the mentioned above rules and regulations and agree to the publishing of the author's profile in the post-exhibition catalogue.
5. Legnica Centre of Culture and Fundation Satyrykon are organisers of the SATYRYKON-LEGNICA 2011 International Exhibition
59-220 Legnica, Chojnowska 2, tel. 0-048 76 / 852-23-44; e-mail: satyrykon@wp.pl).
Timetable
* Deadline for works reception: February 7, 2011
* Jury meeting: February 18-20, 2011
* Post-competition exhibition: June 4 - September 4, 2011
* Return of works after the exhibition cycle: December 31, 2012.

Cartoonist Nacaro's letter about not serious cartoon competitions

Dear colleague cartoonist:
WORLD PRESS CARTOON (AND OTHERS) IN THE BLACK LIST.
This is very important to avoid being scammed or wasting time and work by participating in not serious cartoon contests.
I saw in Caricaturque a critique for the colleague Cafareli for to advertise on his website a call for an not serious humour contest. The colleague Boligan also reports a scammer competition and revealed how the organizers use the name of some colleagues by putting as jurors to appear serious.
About the first case I think that Mr Cafareli it's not his fault, but in the future sites of humor should find out first data as the name of the organizing institution, post address, etc., before publishing the information. And the cartoonists can find out before on the Internet.
But is unusual and accomplice that humour sites, knowing that some competitions defraud winners, publish and keep advertising these bad events. And worse still, never publish the report of the cartoonist who claim his prize.
This is the case with sites like Brazilcartoons, Irancartoon, FECO Europe, etc. I sent my report about WORLD PRESS CARTOON, Sintra, Portugal, (that do not pay me the prize I won in 2007) to managers of these sites. They never answered my messages or published my complaint.
But they are inviting to participate in World Press Cartoon. (And these gentlemens are also cartoonists!!!).
The case of FECO Europe is pathetic because this organization is supposed defending the interests of the cartoonists. But Mrs. Marlene Phole (from FECO) is a personal friend of the director of World Press Cartoon and therefore he has his supports (of course, she has been invited to Portugal as a juror in WPC). Mr. Bernard Bouton, a manager of FECO Europe, initially became interested in my case, asked for more information ... and never answered again. This is the bureaucracy of the cartoon. (The only one that do a good work by FECO is Ana Von Rebeur......from FECO Argentina).
All these union leaders and site managers prefer to silence my demand and support to the organizers of the competition that does not pay the promised prize. I guess they do with the hope of being rewardeds with a trip to Portugal, invited as jurors of the scamed contest.
Is this ethical? I doubt. Is this serious?. Much less.
But I must also congratulate the directors of humor sites that have the courage to publish my complaint. I will continue to denounce every year until wpc pay me. (No matter that Mr. antunez threaten me again with his lawyers).
And I recognize and I am grateful with the messages of solidarity sent me many colleagues (some did not sent more artworks to world press cartoon, in solidarity.) To all my gratitude, and wish them success in their work and in life.
Colleagues, I propose you to make a BLACKLIST of Scammers CONTESTS.
Here are some that have won instead:
ETHIOPIACARTOON, of Ethiopia, do not pay the prize won by Ares.
WORLD PRESS CARTOON, Sintra, Portugal, does not pay the award to Nacaro from 2007. Do not sent the catalog. They do not return the originals to the participants, as promised in their rules.
PRODUCTOON, Productivity cartoon festival, organized by the humour site Irancartoon.com and Humour House, from Iran. In its rules they promise to send the catalog to the selected cartoonists, but never send it.
BLUE SKY Cartoon Contest, supposedly from Spain, they do not inform the address or name of the organizers. Do not pay prizes.
With best regards,
Freddy Pibaque (Nacaro).

Winners in “Naci Talat” Portrait Cartoon Exhibition 2010, Cyprus

Winners in the International “Naci Talat” Portrait Cartoon Exhibition 2010, Cyprus
Jury: Musa Kayra, Hüseyin Çakmak, Mustafa Tozakı, Arif A. Albayrak, M. Serhan Gazioğlu, Sıla Usar İncirli, Mehmet İncirli.

PRIZE-WINNERS:

First Prize:
Osman Güral Suroğlu (Turkey).

Second Prizes:

Wesam Khalil (Egypt)

Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan).

Third Prizes:

Uğur Pamuk (Turkey)

Şevket Yalaz (Turkey)

Omar Zevallos (Peru).

Special Prizes:

Valentin Georgiev (Bulgaria)

Raul Alfonso Grisales (Colombia)

Kürşat Zaman (Turkey)

Henryk Cebula (Poland).

Special Prize of Naci Talat Foundation:
Şenil Çakmak (Cyprus).
All the 53 works sent in by 52 artists from 22 countries are to be exhibited at Naci Talat House of Peace & Friendship from Friday, 26 November 2010.

Results BURGOSATIRA 2010 with theme "Fratelli d'Italia"

Complete list of winners & their works:
On page http://www.fasi-italia.it/ click "Le opere premiate".