2nd Afdesta International Online Cartoon Festival 2013, Iran

Afdesta International Online Cartoon Festival 2013, Iran: A WORLD WITHOUT BOUNDARY
The Afdesta Online Festival secretariat is pleased to present its second cartoon festival featuring some of the most leading international judges entitled "A World without Boundary". There will be a large selection and a variety of art to select from during this festival. Selected artworks from around the world will take place in Afdesta permanent online show. Competitors must illustrate "A World without Boundary". Questions are encouraged and welcomed.
1. Competition terms:
A.Up to 3 artworks are accepted from each participant.
B.Artworks must be in A4 size and with 300 DPI qualities (format JPG-RGB). Attention: to use the option: "save for web and devices" is recommended.
C.There is no limit for using design techniques.
D.Accepting an artwork is due to registration in festival's official website and accepting the rules.
E.All artworks must be submitted exclusively in the festival's official website: www.afdesta.net
Attention: works which are sent through E-Mail or anyway other than uploading in the festival's official website are not included.
F.Afdesta secretariat is excused for accepting artworks containing insult to a nation or culture.
G.Afdesta secretariat considers the sender as the owner and creator of the art work. If proven otherwise, at any stage of competition, the artwork would be omitted and the sender is responsible for its legal responsibilities.
2. Judges (alphabetic order):
Javad Alizadeh (Iran)
Marcin Bondarowicz (Poland)
Angel Boligan(Mexico)
Erdogan Karayel(Germany)
Vladimir Kazanevsky(Ukraine).
3. Festival's Schedule:
A.Submitting artworks starts from October 18th (7GMT) to March 2nd 2014(12 GMT).
B.Judging artworks is from March 9th.
D.Announcement of the winners and displaying their artworks on festivals website starts from March 20th 2014.
4. Prizes:
A.Three nights residence in Kish Island with transportation, and memorial medal with their names on it for top 3 winners.
B.All participants will be rewarded festival's attendance certificate. (2 months after the announcement of winners)
5. Executive Board of Afdesta Online Festival:
Founder and Director of Afdesta Art Group and Festivals: Ali Delzendehrooy
Cartoon Festival Secretary: Javad Takjoo
Technical Manager: Omid Amraie
Executive Team Members: Bahar Badihi, Anahita Baniasadi, Farzane Khoshkhoo & Nicoletta Isonskov
Information Secretary: Illya Tahamtani & Farshid Larmiani
Poster Designed by: Ali Delzendehrooy
Sponsors: Amir-Kish Real Estate Group, Afdesta Advertisement Studio, Parto Lazer Co.& Panart digital magazine
Organizer: Afdesta Art Group
Festival's Official Website: www.afdesta.net
Advertisement: ads@afdesta.net
Cartoon Festival Secretariats E-Mail: cartoon@afdesta.net
Registration link: http://www.afdesta.net/en_US/register/.
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Exhibition of Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities at MACIC

The Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) inaugurated an exhibition entitled "Faces and Features: Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities" by the Egyptian Caricature Society on 30 October 2013. The exhibition has depictions of prominent Indian figures from the field of politics, art and literature, and cinema, and they are shown alongside leading Egyptians in similar fields. Indian personalities that are depicted include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai while Egyptians include Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Chahine, and Omar Sharief.

The exhibition was jointly inaugurated by the First Undersecretary in the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Camelia Sobhi, the pioneering Egyptian caricaturist Mr. Ahmed Toghan and the Ambassador of India to Egypt, Mr. Navdeep Suri. Dr. Camelia Sobhi in her keynote address said that such cultural and artistic events "contribute in further enhancing our interaction with the Indian civilization, which is a very unique one." The Artist Ahmed Toghan, quoted lines by the poet Ahmed Shawky written when Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal. Toghan had drawn a sketch of the Jawaharlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel Nasser at the famous Bandung Conference in 1955, which was the first work on display at the function. Also present at the event was Mostafa El Fiqi, former diplomat and politician, who thanked the Ambassador for the role he was playing in furthering cooperation between India and Egypt. He said that India had always supported Arab causes, and the interests and hopes of the countries were closely aligned. He recalled an incident during the first Gulf war, when Indian officials had consulted Egypt in formulating a response to the events. Ambassador Suri said that even while the current exhibition was being prepared, Egyptian school children were participating in the Glimpses of India Competition, and all these collaborations only deepened the bonds between India and Egypt.

The Egyptian Caricature Society has worked closely with the Maulana Azad Centre recently with an exhibition of caricatures of Gandhi being inaugurated on 2 October to mark the International Day of Non-Violence and the 144th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Both India and Egypt have a rich history of caricatures and cartoons, and the exhibition is the first of a series of steps to deepen the cooperation in the field of caricature art between India and Egypt.

The exhibition will remain open at the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), 23, Talaat Harb, Downtown Cairo till the 14th of November, except for Fridays and Saturdays.

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23rd Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2014, Korea

The 23rd Sejong International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2014, Korea
The SICACO Committee is inviting world cartoonists to take part in SICACO 2014 (the 23th Sejong International Cartoon Contest).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Thema section (titled Reality + Cyber-space) and a Free section.
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297 mm × 420 mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items. (+2 Works)
4. Each entrant should provide title, name, age, address, career, e-mail, and telephone number on reverse.
5. The deadline for entry of original works is Jun. 30, 2014.
6. Entries should be addressed to the
Daejean International Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong
Daejeon, Seoul 302-280
Korea.
7. The most creative cartoon will win the Grand prize of $3,000, Gold prize of $1,000, Silver prize of $500, Bronze prize of $300, and 300 Selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the cartoons at the City Gallery in Sept. 2014.
9. Submitted cartoons will not be returned, but exhibited forever in Korean public halls, art galleries, & museums.
10. Your cartoon may be used for promotional purposes : cards, posters, catalogs, newspapers, magazine, and books etc.
From Dr.Lim, Cheong San, President of the Daejeon Int’l Cartoon Institute
450, Wolpyeongdong, Daejeon, Seoul 302-280, Korea
Tel: 82 (42) 487-5034 C.P: 82-10-5425-6115
E-mail: csanlim@naver.com * http://www.dicaco.com/
http://dicaco.kongju.ac.kr/ (all works).

Catalog SICACO 2013 and winners of the main prizes

Received a couple of days ago the catalog of 22nd Daejeon International Cartoon Contest 2013 which has already been called the Sejong International Cartoon Contest since last year for the exhibition(s) taking place first and mainly in the newly-built administration city of Sejong while still being planned to be opened in Daejeon City as well and elsewhere also. The catalog keeps the standard size of 21 x 29.7 cm (DIN A4) with 96 pages. On the front and back covers is the Best Cartoon Prize-winning cartoon by Ying chen Zhao (China).
This edition received 1821 works in total: 1608 of them by 434 foreign artists, 26 works by 19 Korean artists, and 187 works by 104 students.
In the theme section of "Unisex * Happy Citizen" arrived 763 works while in the Free Theme section they received 1,068.
Cartoonists from 60 nations participated in SICACO 2013. The jury awarded 294 artists. The most awarded of this edition are artists from Korea (59 again), China (27), and Turkey (19 - on pages 15 and 30 are also theme prizes for Turkey).
The main prize-winners are as follows:
Grand Prize: Feng Gui Bo (China)
Gold Prize: Mihai Ignat (Romania)
Silver Prize: Jitet Kustana (Indonesia), Young Ji Choi (Korea)
Bronze Prize: Kfir Weizman (Israel), Hafız Nesiroğlu (Azerbaijan), Yae Eun Son (Korea), Ali Miraee (Iran).
And here is the list of the awarded cartoonists from Turkey:
Special Prize: Ercan Baysal
Student Special Prize: Deniz Cem Türkeş (12 yr), Doğa Yılmaz (14 yr)
Student Honorable Mention: Abdülhakim Orhanoğlu (12 yr)
Theme Prize: Mete Ağaoğlu, Nuri Bilgin, Musa Keklik, Mehmet Arslan, Ahmet Ümit Akkoca
SICACO Achievement Award: Recep Bayramoğlu, Musa Gümüş
Best Cartoon Prize: Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu, Kemal Özyurt, Ümit Müfit Dinçay, Erdoğan Başol
Honorable Mention: Sema Ündeğer, Kamil Yavuz, Bülent Okutan, Seyit Saatçi.
Many thanks to the organisers: Every awarded artist receives the catalog and the certificate!
See main awards-winning cartoons by clicking on the new invitation card.

AYACC 2013 • International Cartoon and Animation Contest • China

AYACC 2013 • International Cartoon and Animation Contest
Still image work (Cartoon \ Comics \ illustration \ Caricature) section

Host Units:
Government of Guiyang City
Red Man International Art Center
Regulations
The competition is open to authors all over the world.
1) AYACC Contest is authorized by the Culture Industry Development Dept. of Culture Ministry of China and Guiyang government.
2) Theme 1: Merry Christmas (Added 26 October 2013)
Theme 2: Free Theme (My Choise)
3)Size and Format
Only the digital works will be accepted.
The entries should be A4 ( 21cmX29.7cm), 300dpi, Jpeg format.
Please sent your works to: (All works of Animation can be sent to the following address)
ayacc2013@126.com ; ayacc2013@163.com
4)Entries
A)The authors may submit multiple works, there are no limited of entry number.
B)Works awarded in other contests can be submitted.
C)Entry form is not required. But entries must be accompanied by author's full name, address, telephone (or fax) and email,and author’s resume.
5)Award and Prizes
A. Cartoon:
Best Cartoon （1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent cartoons (2) -------------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
B. Comic:
Best Comics（1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent Comics (2) -------------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
C. Illustration:
Best Illustration（1）---------------------------10000RMB and Certificate
Excellent Illustration（2）-----------------------2000RMB and Certificate (each)
Honorable mention (100) ------------------------Certificate
Other honors.
The organizing committee will inform all nominated prize winners the results of the contest before the awarding ceremony.
The organizing committee will invite ONE representative from each award to be present at the awarding ceremony and provide the invitees the transportation tickets and accommodations during the time of the awarding ceremony.
6)Catalog
All selected authors will get a catalog published by organizer.
7)Deadline
Entry Deadline: November 10, 2013.
8)Judgement
The panel of judges will be include famous national and international cartoonists and comic artists.
9)Awarding Ceremony
The Awarding Ceremony will be held on November 22, 2013, in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China.
10)Declaration
The organizing committee reserves all rights for final explanation.
11)The Right to Utilize the Work
For the sole purpose of publicizing the Award and the future AYACC or similar award(s) organized by the Organizer, the Organizer shall have the right, without notice to the applicant, to utilize the Work in whole or in part by means of broadcast (regardless of media), online transmission (including but not limited to the internet and mobile communications), exhibition, and distribution (e.g. in the form of a videogram) free of any payment to the applicant.
12)Contact Information
If you have any questions please contact with us directly:
ayacc2013@126.com ; ayacc2013@163.com
Web site: www.redmanart.com/en/bencandy.php?fid=6&id=516.

Syriacartoon Magazine Issue No: 29+30 with best of the most similars, 24/10/2013

Syriacartoon Magazine || مجلة الكاريكاتور السوري
Issue No: 29+30
24/10/2013
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Exhibition of Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities at MACIC, Egypt

The Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) will inaugurate an exhibition entitled "Faces and Features: Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian personalities" by the Egyptian Caricature Society on 30 October 2013. The exhibition will have depiction of prominent Indian figures from the field of politics, art and literature, and cinema, and they will be shown alongside leading Egyptians in similar fields. Indian personalities that are depicted include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai while Egyptians include Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Chahine, and Omar Sharief.
The exhibition will be jointly inaugurated by the First Undersecretary in the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Camelia Sobhi, and the Ambassador of India to Egypt, Mr. Navdeep Suri. Mr. Ahmed Toghan, the pioneering caricaturist and the President of the Caricature Society, whose work will be shown in the exhibition, will also address the gathering.
The Egyptian Caricature Society has worked closely with the Maulana Azad Centre recently with an exhibition of caricatures of Gandhi being inaugurated on 2 October to mark the International Day of Non-Violence and the 144th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Both India and Egypt have a rich history of caricatures and cartoons, and the exhibition is the first of a series of steps to deepen the cooperation in the field of caricature art between India and Egypt.
The inauguration will take place at 5:30 pm on 30 October at the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), 23, Talaat Harb, Downtown Cairo. The exhibition will remain open till the 14th of November, except for Fridays and Saturdays.
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Results of the International Cartoon Contest -Young and EUROjobLESS 2013, Bulgaria

Results of the International Cartoon Contest -Young and EUROjobLESS 2013
1 prize - Luc Descheemaeker (O-sekoer), Belgium (Top)

2 prize - Dariush Ramezani, Iran

3 prize - Henryk Cebula

FECO prize - Marina Gorelova

RHGallery prize - Malgorzata Tabaka.

Winners in Brain Sneezing 2013 with theme "Brain Washing", Slovakia

Official results of the international cartoon competition Brain Sneezing
from kalokagathia to hypochondria and back
Theme 2013: BRAIN WASHING
International jury of the competition Brain Sneezing:
Zoltán Kulin (UA), Istvan Kelemen (HU), Karol Čizmazia (SK), Bernard Bouton (FR),
Ivan Hanousek,(CZ), Fedor Vico (SK),Henryk Cebula (PL)
on the 17th – 18th October 2013 evaluated all the submitted humour cartoons
and agreed on the winners:
First Prize: Pawel KUCZYNSKI, Poland
Second Prize: Valentin DRUZHNIN, Russian Federation
Third Prize: Heibat AHMADI, Iran
Honorary Prizes:
Andrey POPOV, Russian Federation
Ribber HANSSON, Sweden
Pavel MATUŠKA, Czech Republic
Audience Prizes:
on the 19th October 2013 the members of the audience jury
Jozef Matejka (Head of the Jury), Ľubomír Gaston Štávorský and Stano Horváth
evaluated all the submitted humour cartoons and agreed on the winners (without order):
Naghi HAMIDI, Iran (Top)
Oleksy KUSTOVSKY, Ukraine
Peter SEDLÁK, Slovakia
Honorary Prizes:
Fredy VILLAMIL, USA
Pavel TAUSSIG, Germany
Raed KHALIL, Syrian Arab Republic.
Winners, Honorary and Audience Prizes.

Invitación : Inauguración exposición "El lobo chuchú aúlla y grita"

Instituto Quevedo del humor, Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá
C/ Nueva 4. 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) - 91 879 74 40 - iqh@iqh.es.

Results of the 11th International Cartoon Competition Karpik 2013, Poland

RESULTS XI International Cartoon Competition Karpik 2013
GRAND PRIX - Zbigniew Woźniak, Poland (Top)
Main Awards:
-Krzysztof Grzondziel, Poland
-Tomasz Rzeszutek, Poland
Awards of Agency for Agricultural Market Regional Branch in Opole:
1 place:: Tomasz Wołoszyn, Germany
2 place: Jacek Lanckoroński, Poland
3 place: Henryk Cebula, Poland
Distinction: Zbigniew Woźniak, Poland
Prize sponsored by the Association for Traffic Development of the Region of Nyssa:
-Wiesław Zięba, Poland
Award of the Hassan Company of Nyssa:
– Magdalena Wosik, Poland
Mayor's Award of Niemodlin:
- Wiesław Lipecki, Poland
Distinction: Sławomir Lizoń, Poland
Distinction of the Ornament Company of Nyssa:
- Piotr Opałka, Poland
Honorable Mentions - diplomas:
1. Alberto Jerez, USA
2. Luc Descheemaeker, Belgium
3. Mihai Ignat, Romania
4. Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine
5. Tsocho Peev, Bułgaria
6. Sergei Semendyaew, Ukraine.
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