Invitation to Atila Ozer Portrait Cartoons Exhibition 2011, Turkey

Results International Caricature Festival on Safe & Optimal Consumption of Gas 2011, Iran

Honorable Mention: Hicabi Demirci (Turkey)

Honorable Mention: Halit Kurtulmus Aytoslu (Turkey).
See all prize-winning cartoons at
http://www.ficws.org/gaz-results.htm

Results 18th Cartoon Festival Rendon International 2011, Colombia

Prize-winning works

Results 4th Baja Cartoon Competition 2011, Hungary

Results of the 4th Baja Cartoon Competition 2011, Hungary
1st prize: Lugosi Károly (Hungary)
2nd prize: Klaus Pitter (Austria)
3rd prize: Heinz Pfister (Switzerland)
Special award: Lehotay Zoltán (Hungary)
Diploma: Ba Bilig (China)
Diploma: Grigori Katz (Israel) (Top above)
Diploma: Konstantin Kazanchev (Ukraine)
Diploma: Leonid Melnik (Russia)
Diploma: Valeriy Chmyriov (Ukraine).
See all winning cartoons at
http://www.grafikuskelemen.hu/nincs-kategorizalva/1080.html

Koroglu Exhibition 2011: About labor, about eating together, Turkey

KOROGLU EXHIBITION
Theme: About labor, about eating together
A- PORTRAITS
B- CARTOONS
Ruhi Su, says about KOROGLU who is an Anatolian legendary hero:
"He is a brave person and a legendary hero who rebels against atrocious and advise people not to touch to the old and poor people, to contend with the covetous-rich people, to care about aggrieved ones and their difficulties.", in his album, named "Poets & Folksongs” (in Turkish).
As do Ruhi Su, my brother, Mehmet KOROGLU, spent his whole life as a revolutionist and artist with respect to labor, too. In the second year of his decease, we want to commemorate him with an exhibition.
Aim: To make a fine excuse and a cause to create something which give meaning to our lives for the people who make the labor valuable.
1- The works which will be take space in the exhibition: cartoons, pictures, photographs... which are made by all techniques and types, in parallel with the aim and the theme.
2- All participant works will be put in a CD and it will be sent to each participant.
3- On behalf of all KOROGLU Exhibition participants, totally 100 trees will be planted.
4- Parcitipants should send their works in digital media, as A4 or A3 sized, 300 dpi resolution.
5- The works’ copyrights will not be paid to the owners of the works due to the Organization of KOROGLU Exhibition.
6- In case they are used for other purposes or by third parties, then permission will be obtained from the owner of the work.
7- The works must be sent to the following adress: muhitcartoon@hotmail.com
8- Deadline: 15 July 2011
Thanks in advance for all participants.
Muhittin Koroglu.
Note: The CD of the Köroğlu Exhibition 2010 had posted as of the date of 29.06.2011.
For more information:
muhitcartoon@hotmail.com, http://www.muhittinkoroglu.com/

Deadline extended and new theme added in AYACC 2011

Dear artists,
We appreciate all your supports to Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest (AYACC) 2011. It is decided by the Municipal Government of Guiyang that the exhibition of AYACC 2011 will be postponed. So the deadline of the AYACC 2011 will also be postponed to August 1, 2011. Meanwhile, one new subject is added: Car and Traffic. Welcome cartoonists all over the world to send works on this new subject. Wish good results to all the artists.
Secretary in general
The Committee of Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest (AYACC) 2011
Liuyi Wang
Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest (AYACC) 2011
Competition is open to all professional and amateur cartoonists from all over the world.
New Theme:
1) Car and Traffic
2) Free .
E-mail:
ayacc2011@126.com
ayacc2011@yahoo.com
Entry Deadline:
August 1, 2011
(See sources for rules:
rahimcartoon & ayacc)

The City Getting Underground is the theme in Big Boat of Humour 2011, Poland

THE BIG BOAT OF HUMOUR 2011
In Polish, the word ŁÓDŹ means a vehicle propelled by sails, oars or engine, used as a means of water transport. Almost all around the world, it carries symbolic connotations:
• it is an allegory of human fate in both individual and collective dimension,
• it is associated with courage, when imagining sailors embarking on a voyage across rough oceans,
• it symbolizes human longing for adventure and some change in life.
Łódź is also the name of the second largest city in Poland, which is an inland city with no access to navigable waters. We hope that the name of our metropolis will become an inspiration for graphic artists, especially those with a flair for satire. The theme should be taken up with humour, with panache and perhaps with a bit of poetry... This explanation, indispensable to foreigners, is also aimed at the Poles, for whom the popular usage of the name of the city might have blurred the sharpness of its paradox.
The urbanized area on the surface of the Earth is getting so crowded that there is no place left for new ideas for activating citizens or for the creativity of the local governments. More and more of the city’s functions are moved underground: transport and car parks, commerce, recreation… this tendency into the ground has been already foreseen by numerous cities’ strategies. Before these plans can be implemented though, many cities worldwide already push their citizens underground, in literal and allegoric sense. Hence the inspiration for the theme of this year’s edition of the competition: The city getting underground. Willingly or not…
RULES
1.The aim of the contest is:
- promoting the city, changing the traditional perception of Łódź and challenging the stereotypical image of the city.
- creating an art gallery comprising works that could be used in actions promoting the city in a printed form or in the form of organized exhibitions.
2.It is an open contest. Everyone can participate in it, on condition that they submit their works with the application form before the regulatory deadline. The contest is an international event.
3.The theme the fifth Big Boat of Humour contest is:
THE CITY GETTING UNDEGROUND
and traditionally – the city of ŁÓDŹ.
4.The original works entering the contest can be made using any drawing, graphic (including computer graphics) or painting technique and should not be larger than A3 format (297x420 mm). Also copies issued by the author, described and signed by the author are accepted by the Jury as original graphic works. Photocopies and xerox copies of the works, computer printouts of scanned works or any other kind of duplication using multicopy techniques, for example offset printing, which serve as reproductions of a work, shall not be accepted by the Jury. Previously published works, works entered in other contests or works to which rights do not belong to the authors shall also be excluded from the contest.
5.Each participant may submit up to 5 works. The works should be unframed, provided with the name and the surname of the author and possibly the title on the reverse. The works should be accompanied with an application form, which shall be tantamount to the acceptation of the contest regulations and a permission for publishing author's personal data contained in the form, and with a CD with the electronic form of submitted works (in TIFF format, the resolution of 300 dpi, 15 cm at the base), which is the condition of placing them in the catalogue.
6.The works should be sent to the following address: Łódzki Dom Kultury (Łódź Cultural Center), Traugutta 18, 90-113 Łódź, Poland till 31 August 2011 (with a note on an envelope "The Big Boat of Humour 2011").
7.The organizers are not liable for any damage to the works during delivery.
8.The Jury shall choose works for the post-contest exhibition and hand out the Grand Prix of the contest in September 2011.
9.The ceremonial opening of the post-contest exhibition and the verdict announcement shall take place in October 2011, during the 22nd International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź.
10.The authors of works admitted to the contest shall be invited to the ceremonial opening of the exhibition and shall receive the catalogue. The organizers do not provide the return of expenses covering transport to Łódź and stay in the city. The organizers plan the exhibition of the original works admitted to the contest and the exhibition of printouts (on the basis of the submitted CDs) in Piotrkowska Street in the centre of the city.
11.The works that shall not be admitted to the contest as well as the works shown on the exhibition should be taken back from the organizers from December 31, 2011 or they shall be sent back at the author's expense.
AWARDS
1.The works shall be judged by the Jury of the Contest consisting of professional artists, the representatives of the City of Łódź Office and the Organizers of the contest.
2.The Jury shall hand out the regulatory Grand Prix of the contest amounting to PLN 10,000, funded by the President of the City of Łódź. The prize is indivisible. The Jury reserves the right to resign from handing out the award. In such case, the amount is added to the pool of prizes of the next edition of the contest. The decisions of the Jury are definitive without the right to appeal. The work (or works of one author) honoured with the prize, together with all the rights, become the property of the sponsor.
3.The organizers allow for a possibility of handing out sponsored awards other than the regulatory prize. Works awarded by the sponsors, with all the rights, shall become the property of the sponsors.
Author’s statement
1. The author hereby states that the Works made for the purpose of this competition, that is in the frames of this contract, will be the object of the exclusive copyright belonging to the author.
2. The author transfers all the rights exclusively to the City for the time of usage and management of the works made by the Author, in the frame of the contract, especially reports, research, slogans, timetables etc. The transfer of rights is giving the City the right to change, fix, copy with any given technique, put into circulation, digitalize, put on the Internet, publicly perform or reproduce, exhibit, use in editorial materials, including promotional, informational and educational materials, to use the work partially or as a whole, blend it with other works, add elements, update, modify, translate into given languages, change in size as a whole or partially, publicize and spread as a whole or partially.
3. The author transfers also the ownership of the carriers, on which the works are presented, to the City.
4. The rights resulting from point 2, will be transferred properly and the Author is responsible for the violation of the rights of third parties that may emerge from exploitation of the works.
Final provisions
1.Sending works to the contest together with a filled-in application form, equals giving consent to participation in the post-contest exhibition (or a series of exhibitions), free reproductions of the works in all media and all techniques as far as promoting the contest and the exhibition is concerned. Works without the author’s signature will be excluded from the competition.
2.Participation in the contest means accepting the above rules.
Rules and application form at source: http://www.bigboatofhumour.com/rules.php

Results Cartoon contest Zielena Gora 2011, Poland, with theme "Library"

Cartoon contest Zielena Gora 2011 - Poland / Results:
Thema: BIBLIOTHEK.
743 cartoon / 334 cartoonist / 51 country.
Jury:
Julian Bohdanowicz (Polska) - cartoonist (pres. jury)
Ryszard Błażyński (Polska) - LSMDK DEBIUT, honor. director Contest
Andrzej Buck (Polska) – WiMBP Zielona Gora / director City Bibliothek
Jerzy Głuszek – cartoonist
Lubomir Lichy (Czech rep.) – cartoonist
Michał Ogórek (Polska) – journalist
Krzysztof Rutkowski (Polska) – journalist
Alicja Błażyńska - LSMDK DEBIUT (jury sekretair).
Results:
GRAND PRIX - Witold Mysyrowicz (Poland)
I. prize - Grigori Katz (Israel)
II. prize - Paweł Kuczyński (Poland)
III. prize - Kfir Weizman (Israel)

Winning Cartoons:

GRAND PRIX nr 703

I . prize. nr 454

II prize. nr 467

III prize nr 235.
(Alicja Błażyńska - Sekretarz LSMDK DEBIUT)
This report forwarded by i. h. Many thanks Ivan.

Ginger Meggs coin celebrating 90 years

This report from Australian Cartoonists' Association http://www.cartoonists.org.au/:
The Perth Mint have today released a commemorative 1oz Silver Australian $1 coin to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Australia's favourite boy, Ginger Meggs.
It's not everyday an Australian comic strip character is featured on a coin. Ginger Meggs, created by James C Bancks, first appeared in 1921 and remains the longest-running and most popular comic strip in Australian history, running in 34 countries worldwide.
The coin features an homage to Bancks' 1945 Sunbeams Annual (Series 22) cover, which featured Ginger Meggs on the back of a kangaroo with his dog, Mike and his pet monkey, Tony.
The obverse portrays the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the 2011 year-date and is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965.
Check out the Ginger Meggs coin at http://www.perthmint.com.au/

International Cartoon Contest: 4th Salon of Humour Bacau 2011, Romania

Source: licurici

Master Turkish caricaturist, painter, and architect Gungor Kabakcioglu passes

The famous Turkish caricaturist, painter, architect, and writer, Gungor Kabakcioglu passed away in Istanbul today, June 27, 2011.
Born in Serik, Antalya, Turkey, on Sep 9, 1933, Gungor Kabakcioglu was educated in Izmir and Istanbul, graduating as an architect from the National Fine Arts Academy in 1961. He worked for BP and Kervansaray companies for 20 years as an architect. Then he co-owned the advertising agency Hasajans where he was also the art director for 18 years. He received awards in architecture, painting, poster, and cartoon competitions.
First work of cartoons published in 1949 in Izmir (Anadolu newspaper) and in Istanbul (Dogan Kardes, the children’s magazine). He painted a lot of children’s books (Varlik publishing) and book covers (Dost publishing), also large pictures and cartoons on walls of hotels, restaurants, cinemas, and other social buildings.
Gungor Kabakcioglu had several solo exhibitions of caricatures, cartoons and paintings. Made political cartoons for the newspapers Tercuman, Aksam, Gunes, and strip cartoons for Yeni Yuzyil and Gunes as well.

A hardworking and prolific artist, he published his work in many periodicals and collected some in books: Karikatur Albumu (1955, 2002), Portreler (1994), Karikaturcu Portreleri (2002), Sakipname (2002).

See a few images of his works at http://karikaturculerdernegi.com/2011/01/bir-sanatci-agabey-gungor-kabakcioglu/