ECC Cartoonbooks Club

ECC CARTOONBOOKS CLUB
Cartoons are your passion? Do you collect cartoon books? Then the ECC Cartoonbooks Club is the place to share this passion!
What?

As far as we know, there is no “club” for cartoonbook collectors. So, we had to invent one. That’s why we decided to create a webspot in order to exchange ideas, information, hints and of course cartoon books.

The ECC Cartoonbooks Club wants to be a first choice meeting point for cartoonbook lovers and collectors.

The official language is English, but information in Dutch, French, German, … is also welcome.
Where?

Our blog http://www.ecc-cartoonbooksclub.blogspot.com/ gives you all the information required to join the club. We would appreciate to get your reaction.
How to become member?

Visit the blog, click “join the club” and complete the form. The intention is to reach as much as possible cartoon collectors.
Contact

http://www.ecc-cartoonbooksclub.blogspot.com/ or ecc.cartoonbooks@gmail.com

Blogmaster and contact person of the ECC Cartoonbooks Club: Jan Oplinus, Wevelgem, Belgium

Festival of Honorable Mentions for Cartoonists

The 1st Festival of Honorable Mentions for Cartoonists – 2008
Deadline: February, 20 2008
20 honorable mentions will be given in each category
1 – Each participant will be able to submit three works in each category. But only one work will compete in each category. Justification: This procedure is aimed at promoting the exhibition of the best works and not the exhibition of some artists.
2 - This way, we will have the same cartoonist competing in one, two or even in the three categories, but we will not have more than one honorable mention for the same cartoonist in the same category.
3 – There will not be prizes in cash.
4 – All cartoonists that were indicated for the honorable mentions will receive a certificate of honorable mention especially made by “Sorrialengo project”, which is coordinated by the cartoonist Mattias.
5 – All cartoonists that send their works will be automatically selected to compete for the honorable mentions.
6 – Brazilcartoon website will support this event and will build a virtual gallery where the works will be posted according to their categories. The works not mentioned will be exhibited within the year in the column “Rato de Salão”. Justification: This procedure will enable the audience to know the works of all competitors, even those that,because of the decision of the jury, did not win honorable mentions. This way, all cartunistas will have the chance of exhibiting their works.
7 – Works mentioned or awarded in other contests, even virtual ones, will not be accepted.
- Works published in books, catalogues, newspapers, magazines and so on will not be accepted.
8 – The works can be sent by:
E-mail: For those cartoonists that have access to computers. The works must be 200K, JPG, 150 dpi.
Envelope: The works must be 30cm x 22cm, developed under any technique. Send it to:
Projeto SORRIALENGO (Anexo)
Avenida Sta. Cruz, Rua E – Casa 06 – CEP 21010-000
Cavalo-de-Aço, SANTÍSSIMO / Rio de Janeiro – RJ / Brasil
9 – The works can be:
Handmade: ink, watercolor, etc.
Sculpture: wood, paper, etc. (send pictures)
Digital: Done in Corel Draw, Photoshop, etc. In this category, the cartoonist must send a sketch, then the work kalf done. This procedure is also applied to sculptures.
Justification: This procedure will prevent the participation of artists who just change existing pictures and will enable the participation of artists that really know how to use digital technologies.
10 – The works sent by e-mail must be sent up to February 20, 2008 to ilygal@ig.com.br
11 - Attached to the works, the cartoonist must send: Name, Pseudonym. Address, Category, technique, which exhibition in Brazil the contestant has partipated, if the contestant has already been selected or awarded and his/her opinion about the best and worst exhibition in Brazil. About the dates: the registration can be already done and the deadline is February 20, 2008. After this date, no works will be accepted. Justification: That is a lot of time and there is no justification to wait for anyone.

12 – Up to March 5, 2008, the list with the names of the cartoonists who will be awarded with the honorable mentions will be available on the site. Up to March 10, 2008, the certificates will be sent to their owners and the virtual gallery can be seen at http://www.brazilcartoon.com/ .

Results of 3rd UMO International Contest 2007

Results of 3rd UMO International Cartoon Contest 2007
Theme: Health via Technology

First Prize: Dariush Ramezani / Iran (See above)

Second Prizes:
Yogish. L. Shettigar / India
Dimitris Kordalis / Greece

Third Prizes:
P. R. Bijuchandran / India
Umit Mufit Dincay / Turkey (See right)
Verhulst Jos (Vejo) / Belgium

Special Prizes:
Krishna Kishore / India
Sujith / India
Sergei Elkin / Russia (See below)
Siddhartha Tripathi / India
Avijit Sengupta / India.

More prize-winning and selected cartoons for the exhibition for World Usability Day '07 at Hyderabad are displayed at:
http://www.usabilitymatters.org/International_Cartoon_Contest_2007.php

DICACO 2008 - Korea

The 18th Daejeon Int'l Cartoon Contest (DICACO 2008)

The Daejeon city is inviting world cartoonists to take part in the 18th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest (DICACO).
1. This year’s contest comprises a Thema section (titled Tradition / Future) and a Free section.
2. The size of works should be smaller than 297mm×420mm.
3. Any color, free style, and unlimited items.
4. Each entrant should provide title, name, age, address, e-mail, telephone number, and career on reverse.
5. The deadline for entry is Jun. 30, 2008.
6. Entries should be addressed to the Daejeon International Cartoon Institute, 450, Wolpyeongdong, Seogu, Daejeon City, 302-280, Seoul Korea.
7. The most creative cartoon will win the Grand Prix prize of $3,000, Gold prize of $1,000, Silverprize of $500, Bronze prize of $300, and 300 Selected works will be awarded.
8. Exhibit the prize works at the Daejeon Hanbat Library Gallery in Oct. 2008.
9. Submitted cartoons will not be returned, but exhibited forever in Korean public halls, galleries, & museums.
10. Your cartoon may be used for promotional purposes : cards, posters, catalogs, newspaper, magazine, and books etc.
From Cheong-San Lim

Ph.D & D. Min President of the Daejeon Int’l Cartoon Institute

450, Wolpyeongdong, Seogu, Daejeon City, 302-280, Seoul Korea
Source: http://www.dicaco.com/

Special Topic of China Olympic - "Our Life"

Special Topic of the 1st International China Olympic Cartoon Competition - "Our Life"
Dear Cartoonist,
The 1st International China Olympic Cartoon Competition invite you to participate in the new special topic--Our life: House (room); Car; Food. The three topic will enter the monthly judgment and the final judgment, especially for the free theme section judgment. At the same time we put off the deadline to January 10, 2008. Any entires arrive before this date will be considered.
About The 1st International China Olympic Cartoon Competition, please see http://www.cartooncn.org/ennews.asp?nid=6
Please send the digital works to: olympicartoon@yahoo.com or officialcartoon@yahoo.com.cn
The number of entries are no limited. The works's format should be Jpeg or Gif, the size of entry is 200 DPI, A4 format(21 x 30 cm), no more than 1000 KB. Please attach your name, address, email, telephone, fax with your cartoons together. Entries entered other exhibitions or awarded in other contests previously will be also accepped.
Please send your cartoons no later than January 10, 2008.
Thank you very much in advance for your great participation.
Wish you get great success!
Sincerely yours,
Yu Du
Director of the 1st International China Olympic Cartoon Competition

Brazilcartoon Christmas Card Contest

Brazilcartoon Christmas Card Contest
Participate in the Brazilcartoon Christmas Card Contest by sending your cartoon to info@brazilcartoon.com
The best cartoon will be the official Christmas Card of the website and the participant will get a professional kit containing drawing materials and the official t-shirt of Brazilcartoon.
Deadline: December 10th, 2007
Work: Max 3 cartoons
Size: A4, 300 dpi

(Source: http://www.tabrizcartoons.com/)

Results "Zikison" 2007

"ZIKISON" 2007 Prize-winners List:
THE PORTRAIT CARICATURE "ZIKISON" 2007
FIRST PRIZE Marian Avramescu – ROMANIA (See above)
SECOND PRIZE René Bouschet – FRANCE
THIRD PRIZE Cesar Ibarra Zuñiga - COLOMBIA

THE CARICATURE WITHOUT WORDS - Free Form 2007
FIRST PRIZE Marcin Bondarovicz - POLAND
SECOND PRIZE Jordan Pop Iliev - MACEDONIA
THIRD PRIZE Bayram Hajizadeh – AZERBAIJAN (See below)

SHORT ALTERNATIVE COMIC STRIP - Free Form 2007
FIRST PRIZE Makhmudjon Eshonkulov – UZBEKISTAN (See below)
SECOND PRIZE Santiago Cornejo Corne – ARGENTINA
THIRD PRIZE Camilo Andres Triana Cubillos – COLOMBIA Details and more prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.artija.net/zikison2007/srz_index.html

International Postcard Contest - Czech Republic

The 1st International Postcard contest “Prestigio New Year Greetings”: 20 November - 20 December
Prestigio starts postcard contest entitled “Prestigio New Year Greetings”. Christmas is a mysterious time – candle lights and joyous music, hugging and laughter, dinners in a close family circle and parties to no end, decorating and cooking, shopping and wrapping – but most of all, Christmas is a time of giving. Prestigio gives you a unique chance to design your own spectacular and eye-catching postcards and meanwhile to win one of Prestigio incredible prizes or get a lucky chance to win Grand Prix. In order to get a lovely present for yourself or make a present for your loved ones you need to get inspired and choose one of traditional Christmas associated elements (Santa Claus, New Year tree, etc.), create your own postcard based on these must-have pictures and get ready to win one of Prestigio marvelous prizes.

1st International Postcard Contest - Prestigio New Year Greetings - Czech Republic
Deadline: December, 18 2007
1.1 The Theme of the Contest: The entries should illustrate the motto «Prestigio NY Greetings» and realized in one the following genres: digital art, photo, caricatures, drawing. Each work has to include one or more obligate elements which you can see on site Art.Prestigio.Com.
Contest organizers: Prestigio Technologies (Cyprus) Ltd., and Prestigio Europe spol. s.r.o., (Czech Republic). Website: http://www.prestigio.com/
1.2 Prize Fund
Grand prix: 500$
User choice. Site Community Special prizes: 10 Leather Data Flashes 2GB
All prizes and awards will be presented to the winners only upon presentation of the identity documents and provided they have met entry requirements, including duly signed Copyright Release.
1.3 Rules of Identifying Winning Entries: The Grand-Prix will be awarded to the entrant who will score the highest number of points as a result of the Prestigio Jury's voting. The Prestigio Jury consists of 20 company employees from corporate divisions based in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Netherlands.
Site Community Special prizes: 10 winners will be awarded to ten entrants who will score the maximum number of votes in an independent poll at the website http://art.prestigio.com/.
1.4 Voting via site: Any visitor of the website http://art.prestigio.com/ will be able to vote one time per day for one entry. Every voter will be required to leave a comment at the website in English related to the entry. The Contest organizers reserve the right to remove the comments containing obscenities, insults, remarks of racist nature, advertising, calls for violence consists of smiles only etc. Such comments will be removed without notice and explanations. The vote submitted for the entry with such a comment will be automatically subtracted from the entry's voting score.
1.5 Prestigio Jury Voting Rules: The Prestigio Jury consists of Prestigio employees based in various offices and regions. The Jury is headed by Viktoria Kletskova, Prestigio Internet marketing coordinator. The Jury also includes corporate designers, marketing and brand managers. The Jury shall take into account the theme of submitted entries, sense of humor, and relation to the Prestigio brand.
1.6 Contest Stages and Terms:
• Contest term: 20 November - 18 December 2007
• Submission deadline: 18 December
• Voting via website: until 18 December
• Prestigio team voting: 18 December
• Declaration of the poll: 20 December
1.7 Rules of Entry Submissions: Author has to submit a digital version of the postcard via the website http://art.prestigio.com/ (Authors' Entry) or by sending it to the following email address: art@prestigio.com
1.8 Entry Requirements: The Jury will only accept completed original postcards, as well as meeting the purposes and goals of the Contest, its theme and priorities. The postcards submitted to the Contest should be executed on a high artistic and technological level.
When submitting the entry the authors must submit or send to mail art@prestigio.com a scanned copy of the signed Copyright Release which is available for download at the Contest website http://art.prestigio.com/.
The postcards which are not accompanied by the signed Copyright Release will not be accepted. The postcards to site must be presented in one of the following formats: jpg/tif with the size of no more 2MB. The sources can be requested by organizers during the contest.
The postcard has to include one of following elements:
- Prestigio Logotypes
- One of New Year Prestigio elements that published on Prestigio Art Site (art.prestigio.com)
The following types of postcards will not be accepted for participation in the Contest: • materials of erotic and/or pornographic nature; artworks executed (or published) with infringement of third party copyrights, or of other current legislation. The Contestants who have been exposed of plagiarism or use of other person's ideas, shall be permanently disqualified and shall not be allowed to further participate in the Contest.
1.9 Contest Media Coverage: The course of the Contest will be highlighted at the site http://art.prestigio.com/ and the site http://www.prestigio.com/. At Prestigio discretion the Contest can also be highlighted at other Internet resources of the company, including through continuous exposure of all entries in the Internet. At the discretion of the Contest organizers, the course of the Contest can be widely covered at information sites and in mass media.
1.10 Applicable legislation: These Rules, as well as all rights and duties of the parties to the Contest shall be governed by the material legislation of the Czech Republic. All disputes and disagreements between Organizers of the Contest and participants, where agreement has not been achieved, shall be resolved in the courts of the Czech Republic.
1.11 Use of Author’s Materials: For good and valuable consideration which is received and acknowledged, authors grants to Prestigio Europe spol. s.r.o. of Czech Republic and any its agents, representatives, assignees, affiliated, parent and related companies (the "Prestigio Companies") the exclusive, royalty-free and irrevocable right and unrestricted permission to use, display, produce, distribute, publish, copy, or otherwise exploit including the right of modification, translation and adaptation, independently and/or as part of the catalogue of contests catalogue, either in whole or in part sent by me to the postcards competition: "Prestigio New Year Greetings" hosted by http://art.prestigio.com/ (the "Material").
1.12 Disclosure of Information: These Rules and the information on the course of the Contest are openly published at the Contest Website. Any interested persons have the right to contact the Organizers asking for explanations of specific provisions of these Rules or other necessary information. The Organizers can be contacted at the following address: art@prestigio.com

Dedeté 2008 Graphic Humor Contest

Dedeté 2008 Graphic Humor Contest
Deadline: January, 14 2008
It is critical to great a consciousness about phenomena ecologically affecting the planet. Likewise, powers and governments such as that of the United States are promoting the use of the bio-fuels for political ends, without considering the social consequences. These effects, taking the form of natural disasters, are producing global warming to such a degree that “climatic change” has prompted the newspaper to convene the International Biennial Dedeté 2008.
Title: Give the Planet a Chance!
Requirements of the Biennial:
The contest is open to all the caricaturists/cartoonists, designers and graphic artists of the world who carry out their works within the sphere of graphic humor. These can be produced using any technique, but should be sent only by electronic mail to the address: dedetecontest@jrebelde.cip.cu.
The works must be previously unpublished and fulfill the following technical regulations: format A4 ( 21 cm x 29.7 cm), resolution: 300 dpi, image type jpg, black and white or color, maximum of three works per author. In each e-mail only a single image may be attached, and should not exceed one megabyte.
The sending of the work(s) to the biennial includes acceptance of the following:
The contestants agree to relinquish their royalties to the “Dedeté,” which commits to use the works only for educational purposes and for the promotion of environmentalist culture – not for lucrative ends. Works not meeting these parameters will not be accepted in our Biennial.
Prizes:
Great International Biennial Prize of Dedeté 2008
Gold Medal
Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Expiration for shipment of work(s): Monday, January 14, 2008. 15:00 hours EST

(Source: http://www.brazilcartoon.com/)

Solin 2005 & 2007 CD-catalog

Solin CD-Catalog
The CD-catalog of the International Cartoon Festival Solin 2007 is sent to participants in the event. This Croatian festival seems like to be a biennial for being organised in 2005 the first time. The theme was "Archeology" in both editions and free theme cartoons were accepted as well. The CD-catalog covers not only numerous shots from the opening and the exhibition party 2007 but also the scenes from the 2005 exhibition and the selected cartoons in both events.
The Grand Prize 2007 is given to Yuriy Kosobukin’s cartoon (see top above) from Ukraine and there are some more works awarded in the festival. Zeljko Ceric (see below) from Croatia was the winner of the Grand Prize in Solin 2005.
The following artists from Turkey are among the selected:

Solin 2005: Ahmet Aykanat, Alaaddin Cevikbas (2), Alaaddin Arda, Burhanettin Ardagil, Eray Ozbek, Ergul Aktas, Sema Undeger, Yusuf Temiz.

Solin 2007: Atila Ozer, Muammer Kotbas (2), Kemal Ozyurt, Serdar Gunbilen (5), Umit Mufit Dincay (3).

Results of Cheval Blanc - FRANCE 2007 - FIREMEN

Results of the First International Cartoon Contest of Cheval Blanc - FRANCE 2007 - FIREMEN

WINNERS:

First Winner: Valentin Georgiev / Bulgaria (See right)

Second Winner: Raul De La Nuez / USA

Third Winner: Rahim Baqqal Asghari / Iran (See above)

Selected works for calender 2009:

Valentin Georgiev / Bulgaria

Raed Khalil / Syria

Raul De La Nuez / USA

Naser Barfarazi / Iran

Rahim Baqqal Asghari / Iran

Amit Kumar / India

Lotthes Lotto / Germany

Luka Lagator / Montenegro

Oleg Dergachov / Canada

Wei Hong Min / China

Yurij Kosobukin / Ukraine

Cemaletin Guzeloglu / Turkey.

See more prize-winning cartoons at: http://www.tabrizcartoons.com/en/detail.asp?ID=578l.asp?ID=578