39th World Gallery of Art on Paper, Osten 2011, R. Macedonia

39th WORLD GALLERY OF ART ON PAPER / CARTOONS 2011
* Organizer of the Manifestation is OSTEN, Skopje, R. Macedonia
* The received works will be judged by international jury.
* The ceremony of the opening and announcing of the prize winners will be held on 26th May 2011 in Skopje.
* PROPOSITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
Theme: "My Theme/Subject"
* The cartoons are sent electronically.
* One author may send maximum three (3) cartoons.
* Size of the cartoons: A4 (210x297 mm) or A3 (297x420 mm)
(300 dpi resolution, CMYK or RGB, pdf, jpg or tiff file).
* All works of the artists will remain in the collection of the Museum of Art on Paper.
* By completion of the Participation form, the participant declares and accepts in advance that (s)he hands over the copy rights (s)he holds over the drawings for printing/publishing by World Gallery of Art on Paper – Cartoons 2011 and Osten without any limitations on time period or location of publishing. The author agrees that the organizer can use the art works, exhibit them, study them and publish them on internet or through other media.
* Participants are expected to send the filled Participation form including short curriculum vitae (CV) and photograph, all together with their work(s).
* The participation form is sent on the email address either scanned or downloaded from Osten webpage.
* The participation form and coupons can be photocopied and passed to friends and colleagues who would like to participate in the World Gallery of Art on Paper – Cartoons 2011.
* The commission for selection will maket he selection of artists that will be presented in the catalogue. The presented artists will get a free catalogue.
* Deadline for submitting cartoons is 15 March 2011
* The selected works which are candidates for awards are sent in original samples at Osten address no later than 15th April 2011.
* The organizer will cover the accommodation expenses for first prize winners for the opening and award ceremony in Republic of Macedonia.
* E-mail: cartoons@osten.com.mk ;
* WEB: http://www.osten.com.mk/
* Address: OSTEN World Gallery of Art on Paper – Cartoons 2011, 8 Udarna brigada 2, 1000 Skopje, R. Macedonia
* PRIZES
Grand Prix for Life Achievement: 5000 $
First prize for cartoon: 1000 $
First prize for strip: 1000 $
First prize for satiric drawing: 1000 $
Ten (10) Special prizes.

4th International Contest of Caricature & Cartoon of Vianden 2011

The Museum of the Caricature of Vianden with the cooperation of Les Amis du Château de Vianden, Naturpark OUR and CartoonArt.lu are pleased to announce the 4th INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF CARICATURE AND CARTOON OF VIANDEN 2011
1. Subject: Capitalism
2. Deadline: 15th March 2011
3. Prizes:
Adult category: 1 prize: 3000 € + trophy, 2 prize: 2000 € + trophy, 3 prize: 1000 € + trophy; four honourable mentions.
Youth category: Prize: 500 € Shopping Center Belle Etoile + trophy. This is a special category for people who are no older than 25 and who are currently residents of the Grande Région (including Wallonia, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Lorraine, and Luxembourg). This deadline is 15th July 2011.
4. Entries: Initially, each participant can submit up to 3 entries in digital format by sending them to the following address: cartoon@caricature.eu . The author must include the following details in his or her e-mail: first name, last name, complete address, e-mail address, phone number, date of birth, as well as the category and the title or the number of each submission. The specifications for these electronic submissions are as follows: format JPEG, good quality, and max. 1MB per picture. If, for some reason, the participant is unable to submit his or her work via e-mail, he or she may submit the original prints via regular mail. Out of these submissions, the jury will make a selection of 90-120 drawings and will ask the artists to send in the original documents via regular mail. All these originals will be shown in the exhibition and in the catalogue. Their size should be between DIN A4 (210x297mm) and DIN A3 (297x420mm); furthermore, the paper should be of high quality. The drawings must not be folded or included in a passe-partout. On the backside of every drawing, the artist needs to indicate his/her first name, last name, complete address, e-mail address, phone number, date of birth, as well as the category and the title or the number of the work. This deadline is 8th April 2011.
5. Technique: Free, black and white or in colour, without subtitles. Printouts of digitally created drawings will be accepted, but will not be returned. The submitted drawings must be signed by the artist on the backside. Photos, collages, photocopies and coloured b&w reproductions will be eliminated.
6. Exhibition: The award ceremony for the adult category will be held on 7th May 2011 in Castle Vianden and the exhibition will take place in the Hall of the Knights of Castle Vianden from 8th May until 5th June 2010. There are plans to display the exhibits in the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon of Vianden and in other cities until June 2012. The award ceremony of the youth category will be held during the opening of the itinerant exhibition at the Shopping Center Belle Etoile in Bertrange.
7. Returns: At the end of this series of exhibitions, the original drawings will be returned to their authors. The drawings that were awarded one of the prizes will not be returned. They will become property of the organizer. The organizer cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage that might occur during shipping.
8. Catalogue: The authors whose submissions are selected for the exhibition will receive a free catalogue by mail upon return of his or her submissions. Prize winners will get their catalogue at the award ceremony.
9. Results: The results will be published on the website www.caricature.eu on 8th May 2011. The award winners selected by the jury will be personally informed via e-mail or by phone. The final decisions of the jury are incontestable.
10. Copyright: The selected participants give the organizers permission to use their drawings only for promoting the artist and the event itself. Every other aspect of the copyright remains with the artist (except for the awarded submissions). It ensues that the awarded works can no longer be submitted in other contests or published by their authors or third parties after the official publication of the results.
11. Generalities: The submitted work should not have been awarded or published before the deadline of this contest. Artists interested in selling their work will need to label the backsides of their drawings with the words “for sale” and the selling price. By taking part in this contest, the participants accept the abovementioned rules.
12. Submission address:
Musée de la Caricature et du Cartoon de Vianden
48, Grand-RueL - 9410 VIANDEN
Luxembourg
13. Further informations:
Florin BALABAN Phone nr.: 00352 – 621 28 37 90
Pol LEURS Phone nr.: 00352 – 78 83 18
E-mail: cartoon@caricature.eu
Source: http://www.caricature.eu/salon%202011.html .

Received the catalog 2010 Osten World Gallery of Cartoons, Macedonia

Grand Prix for Life Work: Darko Markovik

1st Prize for Satiric Drawing: Dusan Ludwig

Osten World Gallery of Cartoons after its revival a few years ago, organised the 38th international exhibition of art on paper (World Gallery of Cartoons) in 2010 in Skopje, Macedonia, between Oct 14 - Dec 14 and they sent the catalog to every participant in the event. According to the introduction, in 2010 they started to build an International Institute of art on paper sited in Ohrid - the town where Cyrillic alphabet was developed as a foundation of Slavic literature - where they plan to establish Museum of the Art on Paper.
The catalog is 20x22 cm in size and has 112 pages all color. The prize-winning cartoons are followed by the selected ones published in the alphabetical order of their countries of origin. There are special pages for some works of Darko Markovik, the laurate of the Grand Prix for Life Achievement in 2010. An index of participants is also given at the end of the catalog.
From Turkey in 2010 the cartoons of the following artists are selected for the catalog: Nuri Bilgin, Erdogan Basol, Mehmet Kahraman, Serdar Sayar, Musa Gumus, Sait Munzur, Omer Cam, Cemalettin Guzeloglu, Mete Agaoglu (See above), Osman Gural Suroglu, Oktay Bingol.

Angelo Campaner

Catalog 14th Fax for Peace, Fax for Tolerance 2009-2010, Italy

Catalog to every participant: that is what they say in their regulation and now I see that they do what they promise. This is great job! And it is worth of course I should say, to promote the artistic struggle for peace and tolerance in the world! Congratulations to the organizers and many thanks for sending me this precious cartoon book although my work is not included in it (I did participate of course!).
This partly color catalog is 21x21 cm in size and has 96 pages. The book opens with the introductory essay by prof.ssa Lucia D'Andrea, School Executive of the Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore of Spilimbergo. Then follows the longer one by Kerry Kennedy where the father Robert Kennedy is remembered in his efforts for equality, democracy, and justice:
"Those whose lives he touched began to believe in themselves.
He urged us to dream things that never were and say why not."
After these essays come the lists of participating artists, participating schools, pre-selection jury members, and the international jury members of the event.
http://www.isspilimbergo.it/
http://www.faxforpeace.it/

Best Work (satira): Azad Maryam (Iran)

Morteza Khosravi (Iran)

Rumen Dragostinov (Bulgaria).

HADAF Somalia International Cartoon Competition 2011

The Association of East African Cartoonists (KATUNI )invites all cartoonists to participate in the
HADAF Somalia International Cartoon Competition.
Theme: The search for peace in Somalia: Achievements and Challenges
1st Prize: $ 3000
2nd Prize: $ 1500
3rd Prize: $ 750
Competition Rules
The maximum number of entries you may submit is 5.
Deadline for receiving cartoons is Monday 14 March, 2011.
All entries should be without any kind of frame and must not be folded.
Each entry must be accompanied by a short biography and/or CV as well as the name and contact details of the cartoonist.
Submitted works may be put on exhibition and used in future publications.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into it.
Submitted works will not be returned.
By participating, you grant the organizers the rights to publish and use the submitted artworks in any form including:
a) Reproduction and dissemination in printed form for all editions (e.g. study edition, school edition, special edition) and in unlimited print-runs (printing right). The printing right embraces in particular hard-cover editions, paperback editions, reprints, magazines, newspapers, collected works, via all distribution channels such as retail bookshops, other retailers selling books, book clubs, open and closed user groups and in all formats.
b) Electronic/digital storage and making accessible (including in databases) by means of digital or other storage or data transmission technology, with or without intermediate storage, in such a way that users have access from a place and at a time selected individually by them and can download, play back, interactively use and/or pass to third parties this work via PC, eBook, mobile telephone or other wired or wireless appliances, for example via the internet, UMTS, cable, satellite or other transmission paths (online right).
How to Enter:
Digital copies of the cartoons may be sent to katuni@gmail.com and should be in JPEG format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
Original artworks or clear prints (no photocopies) should be placed in an envelope marked “Hadaf Somali Cartoon Competition” and either sent to:
Hadaf Somali Cartoon Competition, P.O. Box 2074
Village Market 00621, Nairobi, Kenya
or dropped off at one of the following venues:
Alliance Francaise de Nairobi, Loita/Monrovia streets, Nairobi.
4D Innovative Ltd, 3rd Floor, Revlon Plaza, Kimathi St., Nairobi.
GoDown Arts Centre, Dunga Rd., Industrial Area, Nairobi.
Source: gathara

1st International Biennial of Resistance Cartoon Contest, Tabriz - IRAN

The First International Biennial of Resistance Cartoon Contest
Theme: Resistance to Occupation
Peripheral parts
cartoon
comic strip
This course: Creating the occupier characters
Animation: Animation works would be send on cd ,without restriction period and technique.
Size: min A4, max A3.
Entries: 5 works.
Please write your name, surname, address, phone number in Email or in backside of each work.
Sent works could be won in other contest.
Prize:
First prize: 1000 $ + diploma + statuette
Second prize: 500 $ + diploma + statuette
Third prize: 250 $ + diploma + statuette
And 5 selected prize : diploma + statuette.
Deadline: 1.sep.2011
Address:
Ashtab - martyr Montazeri Crossroads - Foundation for Preservation of
Monuments and Publishing Values of Sacred Defense - Tabriz - Iran
Zip code: 51396-13117
Tel: +98 +411 284 30 94
E.mail: info@arsoyism.com
rahim@tabrizcartoons.com
tabrizcartoons@tabrizcartoons.com
WEB: http://resistancebiennial.com/
Source: tabrizcartoons

Results the First International Cartoon Contest Canadian Banana 2011

Results the First International Cartoon Contest Canadian Banana 2011
with theme: IN VINO VERITAS (Alcoholism)
First Prize - Dusan Petricic (Canada) (Above)
Second Prize - Zoran Petrovich (Germany)
Second Prize - Vladimir Kazanevski (Ukraine)
Third Prize - Chengvey Yin (China)
Third Prize - Pavel Taussig (Germany).
10 Honorable Dyplomas:
Juri Kosobukin (Ukraine)
Jiri Sliva (Czech Rep)
Igor Varchenko ( Cyprus)
Florian Doru Krihana ( Romania)
Sergey Sichenko (Israel)
Vassili Aleksandrov (Russia)
Sergej Tjunin (Russia)
Junior Lopes Chuntra (Brasil)
Dariush Ramezani (Iran)
Andrej Popov (Russia)
M.M. Zlatkovski (Russia).
Special Prize of the Jury
Ali Divandari (Iran).
Special Prize of Studio DO
Boris Erenburg (Israel).
More winning cartoons at source: cartoonall

Laura Peláez sends greetings for the New Year 2011

Laura Peláez
Diseñadora gráfica
http://www.guaicaricaturas.blogspot.com/

New Year greeting e-card arrives from Santosh Paliwal, India.

Santosh Paliwal (Cartoonist, Artist), INDIA

2011 Caretoon Contest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the U.S.A.

Enter Now...
the National Liberty Museum's 2011 "CARETOON" CONTEST
Transform the art of cartooning into drawings that "care!",

Submit an original work of art expressing positive attributes,
such as friendship, courage, peace or diversity.
FOUR PRIZES:
$500 ADULT International · $500 ADULT National
$500 STUDENT International · $500 STUDENT National
You don't need to be a professional cartoonist to draw a Caretoon.
The Caretoon Contest is open to people of all ages and artistic ability.
Group submissions are welcomed!
For an entry form or additional information, click here,
or call 215-925-2800, ext. 124.
Deadline: April 15, 2011.
National Liberty Museum
321 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
215-925-2800
http://www.libertymuseum.org/

28th Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition 2011 - Turkey

XXVIII. Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition
Deadline: May 2nd, 2011
Participation Rules & Participation Form