19th International Satire Exhibition Trento - Italy

19th INTERNATIONAL SATIRE EXHIBITION
«Trento between reality and madness»
Subject: «We want the moon»
We aim at all the artists not overwhelmed by the current rampant savagery, but still able to look at the present world with critical realism and at the same time, wanting the moon. We want to be open minded to the ideals and the dreams.
Regulation
1. The exhibition is by invite. Authors can present an unlimited number of works, the Studio will exhibit those that, by its incontrovertible opinion, considers most in line with the subject.
2. Works must be the originals, can be realized with any technique and must be strictly on topic.
3. Maximum format A3
4. Send your works to: Studio d’Arte Andromeda via Malpaga 17, 38100 Trento -Italy, before March 31st 2008
5. We will inform you of the inauguration date in time
6. The works will be returned on demand
7. The Organization Committee will keep the prize-winner and signal works
8. The Studio reserve the possibility of printing a catalogue with the most significant works and the right of using them for informations, news and documentations for the gallery. We will give a catalogue to all participant during the inauguration, or we will send it with the works.
9. The Studio d’Arte Andromeda don’t answer of possible damaged or missing works, but maximum care of the delivered works is assured.
10. The contest has the following prizes:
- 1st prize: 1000 Euro
- 2nd prize: 700 Euro
- 3rd prize: 500 Euro
- Prize visitors (300 Euro)
WEB: http://www.studioandromeda.net/

3rd Cartoon Contest Santomera 2008 - Spain

III CARTOON CONTEST SANTOMERA
The Council of Santomera has organised this competition according to the following:
REGULATIONS:
1. All professional cartoonists or not of any countries may take part in this competition.
2. Each cartoonist can submit 2 originals, being essential that the original works have not been submitted to a previous competition.
3. TOPIC: “Tolerance to other cultures”.
4. The works must be original, any painting technique being accepted. Top quality prints of works achieved by digital tools will be considered originals as long as the author signs them, and with the indication that it is Print nº 1.
5. The format of the works will be maximum 30x42 cms without frame.
6. PRIZES: 1st PRIZE: 900 €, 2nd PRIZE: 600 €, Two runners-up: 150 €
7. The works should be received by the organization by March 17th, 2008 at 14:00 hours. No works will be accepted after that limit time.
8. Each of the works for submission must carry an identification label, clearly filled in, including name of cartoonist, as well as address, phone number, photograph, e-mail and a brief curriculum.
9. All works must be sent to this address:
III CONCURSO DE HUMOR GRÁFICO “SANTOMERA 2008” Ayuntamiento de Santomera CASAGRANDE (Inmigración) C/ Cuatro esquinas, 58, 30140 Santomera • Murcia • SPAIN
10. The decisions of the Jury which will be taken by majority vote and will be final, will be made public on March 27th, 2.008. The prize might be considered desiertos on the Jury's decision.
11. The selected works will be exhibited from 1st to 30 April 2008 in Casagrande, in Santomera.
12. The prizewinning works will not be returned to their authors. They will become property of the Council of Santomera. The awarding of a prize to a specific word will automatically imply the waiving of its author's royalties to the organisation.
13. The works not awarded as winners will be returned to their authors, provided that this has clearly been by the authors in the identification label.
14. It must be made clear that accepting all these regulations is the essential requirement to take part in the competition.
Santomera, 16th January 2008
Information: http://humor-grafico-santomera.blogspot.com/
Source: http://www.hdk.hr/

Cartoon Exhibition: Ali Ulvi Ersoy (1924-1998)

Ali Ulvi Ersoy Cartoon Exhibition
January 30 - February 29, 2008
Cartoon Art Museum, Anadolu University, Eskisehir - Turkey

In the 10th year of his death, Ali Ulvi Ersoy, the late doyen of Turkish editorial cartooning is being commemorated by an exhibition of his works at the Cartoon Art Museum of Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey.

Ali Ulvi ERSOY
Born in Uskudar, Istanbul in 1924, Ali Ulvi studied art in Ankara. He made his debut as a cartoonist in 1940. He worked as an assistant to Cemal Nadir Guler, the founder of modern Turkish cartoon, in "Arkadas" magazine (1940-1941). Between 1947-1949 he did cartoons for the humour magazines "Kahkaha", "Mizah", and "Karikatur". In 1950 he started cartooning for "Cumhuriyet" newspaper. Between 1957-1959 he contributed to "New Yorker", "Look", "SE Post", "Esquire" in the States and "Punch" in England. He made documentaries and animated films as well. He had been the editorial cartoonist in "Cumhuriyet" for four decades when he passed away on January 30, 1998.

(Source: http://www.krk.anadolu.edu.tr/karw/muze/index.htm)

1st International Sporthumor - Italy

1st International "Sporthumor" the smile olimpics - Italy
Theme: "Sport"
Section: Cartoon or caricature
Size: 21 x 30 or 35 x 50 cm
Work: Original – Max of 3 works
Deadline: 28 February 2008
Prizes: A prize of 2500 euros will be given to the artist to receive the most votes from the public. The designated winner will receive the prize during the second edition to be held in 2009 (trophies, plaques and medals)
Note: The most deserving and representative work will form part of a coloured catalogue specially created and sent free of charce to all the published authors.
Address: Emilio Isca, Via Aosta 29, 10152 Torino (Italy)
Phone: +39 011 2483046
e-mail: emilioisca@libero.it

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

XII Contest On-Line Fabricarica - Brazil

XII Contest On-Line Fabricarica / Brazil

THEME: OSCAR NIEMEYER ARCHITECT
Oscar Niemeyer Biography

http://architect.architecture.sk/oscar-niemeyer-architect/oscar-niemeyer-architect.php
Foundation Oscar Niemeyer: http://www.niemeyer.org.br/
The registrations can already be made and you can send your work to compete.
The winner will receive (by mail) a poster (0,70m X 1.00m) of his/her caricature drawn by one of the cartoonists of the Fabricarica. For further information, please log onto http://www.frabricarica.com.br/

Deadline: March, 15 2008
Rules and regulations of the Fabricarica On-line Contest
1- All caricaturists, professional or not, are allowed to participate.
2- The registration throught e-mail implies that the contestant accepts all the rules and regulations of the contest. Specific situations will be treated by the Organizing Committee.
3- The organizing committee consists of the legal representatives of the Fabricarica.
4- The person that will have his caricature drawn, will be defined on the site and there will be a link corresponding to the current contest.
5- Each contestant is allowed to send just one caricature for each contest. If more than one caricature is sent, just the first one will compete.
6- The works must be done using any conventional technique or digital technique. For the works done using digital techniques, those ones done with the photo manipulation of the photography will not be accpeted.
7- The works must be sent throught e-mail and they must contain the following information: Full name, address and telephone number. Without these information, the contestant will not be able to participate. If the contestant wishes, he or she will be able to use a pseudonym that will be available in the site of the contest. The works sent cannot contain companies’ websites. If this occurs, the work will not compete.
8- The digital file must have the following specifications:

· Maximum resolution 72dpi

· Maximum height or width of the image: 400 pixels

· Maximum size of the file 50kb.

Send: fabricarica@aleph.com.br
9 – The period to send the e-mails (registration) is available in the link that corresponds to the current contest.
10 – Each contestant is fully responsible for the origin and originality of the work registered under his/her name. The organizing committee is not responsible for copies illegally registered in the contest.
11- The jury will be defined by the site organizers in each contest. The definition of the winner will occur in up to 20 days after the ending of the time for registration. The final result will be announced on the site in the following order: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes.
12 – The awards and their delivery will be defined by the organizing committee and will be available on the link that corresponds to each contest.
For further information: http://www.fabricarica.com.br/

International Gaza Cartoon (By Email) Contest-2008

International Gaza Cartoon (By Email) Contest-2008
Iranian House of Cartoon Organizes with Museum of Palestine Contemporary Arts and collaboration of syriacartoon.

Rules:

1. We address to all the professional and amateur cartoonists regardless their age from all over the world.

2. Theme: DEATH IN GAZA, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ARE DYING, HELP US!

3. The number of sent cartoons is five.

4. Please attach in .doc format a brief presentation of your artistic activity (surname and first name, address, e-mail address, a photo and your CV).

5. Prizes :

- First prize ? 3000 EURO

- Second prize ? 2000 EURO

-Third prize ? 1000 EURO

- 10 Honorable Mentions.

6. The cartoons must be sent at the e-mail address: info@irancartoon.com and they must be of 100 dpi resolution, 1200 Pixel( Horizontal or Vertical) and JPG format.

7. The cartoons will be published in the web pages: http://www.irancartoon.com/ http://www.syriacartoon.com/

8. All the artists who will enter the site, will receive the virtual catalogue of the contest.

9. Deadline: April 30,2008.

10. The exhibition will be opened for the public on May 12, 2008 in Museum of Palestine Contemporary Arts.

Thank you for participation.

Iranian House of Cartoon: Tel: (+98 21) 22868600-22867080 Fax: (+98 21)22846928

11th Itinerant Humour Festival Topic: Offside - Italy

11TH INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC ITINERANT HUMOUR FESTIVAL
TOPIC: OFFSIDE (To violence, indifference, discrimination and doping)

Opened to all the professional cartoonists, the works must be accompanied by the author card file (name, address, country, pic or author parody).

Dimension approved: Cm 20 x 30 – Cm 30 x 40

Quantità : Maximum two drawings

1) The authors must indicate back of the drawings if they desire to participate to the competition domain or out of the competition.

2) A jury composed by drawers, journalists and domain authorities will choose the best five drawings present "in competition". Each one of the most voted drawings will receive:

FIRST PRIZE, "Humoris Causa" with Silver plaque

SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH & FIFTH PRIZE, Special Plaque "Humoris Causa" of the International Festival.

The prized work choice will take place after the last day of the "11th International Graphic Itinerant Humour Festival" exhibition, edition 2008.

3) The Festival direction, after the final poll will communicate the result on the Festival Web Site (http://www.festivalhumourgrafico.com/)

4) The cultural association "Lo Scrigno Dell’Arte" and the Festival artistic director will select the drawings for the exhibition. The choosen authors will receive one biennial catalogue at the end of the exhibition

5) Every author is liable of the content of his works, included the copyright of the authors themselves for what concerns texts, titles and images.

6) All the received works will not be returned, and they will become part of the future International Graphic Humour Festival museum.

7) The Festival doesn’t take on accountability for eventual damages during the works expedition.

8) The festival will reserve the right to expose the drawings and to publish them on the catalogue or in articles pertaining to the Festival.

9) The Festival Web Site will inform you of the 11th Itinerant Festival with news and photos at the end of it.

10)The participation at the exhibition involves the integral legal consent of this policy.

Expiry date: FRIDAY 14 MARCH 2008

Exposition inauguration in preview: June 2008

Itinerant exposition: July – December 2008

The works must be sent at: 11th INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC - ITINERANT HUMOUR FESTIVAL P.O. BOX 52, 00045 – GENZANO DI ROMA, ITALY

E – MAIL: festival@virgilio.it

OFFSIDE / to violence, indifference, discrimination and doping

From the dictionary

Off - side / inglese – fuorigioco / italian / sm. Inv [ sec XX ; fuori + gioco ].

Situation in which the player, in some team games, in the beginning of the offensive action from his own team, is situated after the last man of the other team; goals marked in off side aren’t good, and the irregular position is punished. In football the players that attacks is in off side when he is in the half side of the opponent team field and there’s noone between him and the opponent team golie.

The Cultural Association "Lo Scrigno Dell’arte" (non profit organism) organize the 11th International Graphic Humour Festival.

Why offside? Because thematics like football guised on paper from graphic humourist, creates an event that amuse the whole world spectators. In fact all the drawers present in the press pages of their country publish ideas on the football world as it’s the most popular sport in the world.

“Offside / to violence, indifference, discrimination and doping” is a cultural event on football world also to remember us that when life is in game, we play for life, because football is sport, happiness and desire of living. This proposal done in a critic moment for football, confirms what we’re saying from the beginning, that a football exposition is meeting moment for an healthy sport vision.

Football game is absolutely the national sport all over the world; the only one that join in a common enthusiastic feeling and participation of all the social classes and that can keep awake the attention much before and much later than the hour and a half of the match. The fact that television or the direct vision can communicate the games images, the public excitation is always on a very high level and tension never get down with the game’s end but goes over and involves in the streets also those who didn’t follow the match. It’s a game that, projected besides the official stadiums, daily propose itself in the thousand of football fields quite extemporized in schools, houses gardens or everywhere a kids group meet himself around a balloon.

Registering this phenomenon, with share spirit and with the placid point of view of cultural interest, with the clever curiosity inquiry and the gage thrown during the time by journalist, writers, photographers, sociologists, philosophers, painters and also drawers. This last category, the humoristic worldwide painters, compare themselves in a meeting exposition under the umbrella football.

A tribute to football in a cultural meeting that overpass the simply football language.

Football appassionates, is like a powerful river that can drag with him million of people to ride his wawe, in a climate mostly of party, football is life, most of all for those who live life in a sportily way. Football is love, especially for those who know the passion. Football is health, because sport must be healthy and honest and against every doping. Football is fun for everyone,above all for sceptic and committed persons. Football is also money, a meeting occasion for those who like staying together and they don’t want to stay no more alone.

For this and for all that this sport represent, we couldn’t do without involving the nibbest international pencils, trying to give football with a smile his primary identity: the game.

2nd Biennal "Wine, Humour and Fantasy" - Italy

SECOND GRAPHIC HUMOUR INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL “ WINE, HUMOUR AND FANTASY”
THEMATIC: WINE IS DIWINE
We always talk about the wine culture, we also add wine in culture. Cinema, painting, literature, art generally have drawn from wine and whereas a two-sided journey that makes get high the wine glass on the seventh art podium, as cinema is considered the seventh art.
Thinking to Mario Soldati, writer and Italian movie director who said that “wine is something that lives and make part of our lives”, we can say that the product wine is the “8th art “.
The first historical reference we find it in the Bible, the patriarch Noé ate fermented grape to celebrate the Deluge.
Another ancient wine reference we have it in Kana’s wedding. According to the legend, a Persian king forgot a grape bunch inside an amphora. After a little time, he saw with surprise that it has fermented and spread some juice. He thought that juice was poison and inform about that his courtesan. But one of them who lost the king’s favour, tried to committ suicide drinking that juice thinking it was poison. Instead the more she drinked it, the more she felt happy and wishful and so she gave them a glass to the king waking in him desire.
The wine alchemy has always been present in magician and sublime aspects of human beeing.
Our most happiest moments are celebrated with this nectar produced by earth and by man’s work.
Celebrations, weddings, birthes, deceases, great banquets, family or religious parties are accompained with wine, nectar from fermented grape that transmits euphoria and happiness.
Wine has been the inspiration source in literary creation in all his genres.
Wine is life and truth, according to the classical motto "in vino veritas", as it’s been told by the French director Jean Luc Godard: “Truth is images in 24 images per second”.
Wine is, like humour "drinking poetry, that has to be tasted, felt, seen and heard…" always present in history and art.
CONVOCATION
SECOND INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC – ITINERANT HUMOUR BIENNAL“WINE, HUMOUR AND FANTASY”
THEMATIC: A WINE Diwine
Introduction: For this biennal second edition, all the paintings must arrive only and exclusively by e-mail.
The biennal is open to all professional cartoonists. Works must be presented with the participation form of the author (Name, Address, Country, Photograph or Caricature of the author).
Dimensions: A4 format 21 cm x 29,7 cm in JPEG style with 300 dpi resolution
Quantity: Max two paintings
Please send one e-mail per painting and one for the participation form. The e-mail can be sent indiscriminately to the following addresses:
smilefestival@libero.it
smilefestival2@yahoo.it
A jury made up of artists, journalists and other professionists will choose the best five paintings participating to the competition. Each of the most voted five paintings will receive:
First Prize: Special Silver Plate "Humoris Causa"
Second, Third, Forth, and Fifth Prize will receive a Special Plate "Humoris Causa" of the International Festival.
The choice of the winning works will be communicated after the last date of presentation of the "Second International Graphic Humour Biennal".
After the last scrutiny, the festival direction will communicate to the authors the final choices on the festival website: http://www.festivalhumorgrafico.com/
The paintings of the authors that will be chosen for the exhibition will be selected by the cultural association “LO SCRIGNO DELL’ARTE”, by the biennal director in accordance with the selection made by the jury. The authors that will be published will receive one copy of the biennal catalogue at the end of the exhibition.
Each author is responsible of his own creation so the copyright of the eventual texts, titles and images belong to the creators.
The festival has no responsibility for any eventual not received e-mail or in a different format from the requested one (JPEG in 300 DPI)
The festival has the right to expose the works in the exhibitions, to publish them on the catalogue or on any article concerning the biennal. All the sent works will not be returned and will be part of the "International Festival of Graphic Humour Museum".
The Festival website will keep you updated with news and images about the event.
The participation to the event implies the acceptance of all the above-mentioned points.
Expiry date: Sunday, 24 of February 2008.
Date of exhibition opening in preview: April 2008
Itinerant exhibition: June-December 2008
Works must be exclusively sent to:
smilefestival2@yahoo.it
smilefestival@libero.it

Atila Ozer cartoon exhibition in Eskisehir - Turkey

Atila Özer cartoon exhibition in Eskişehir, Turkey
In commemoration of the 800th year of birth of Nasreddin Hodja, the Eskisehir-born master of humour, Turkish cartoonist Atila Ozer is exhibiting his work in Eskisehir, Turkey. The exhibition will be on at Vestel Art Gallery from January 24, 2008 and the opening ceremony will take place at 17.30 local time.

Born in Burdur, Turkey in 1949, Atila Ozer made his debut as a cartoonist in 1973. He is not only a cartoon artist, but also a scholar on graphics and cartoon art at Anadolu University, Eskisehir. He also heads the Research Center for Art of Caricature and the Cartoon Art Museum of the university. The following is a short CV of the artist:

Atila Ozer
Occupation/Profession: Professor, Anadolu University, Eskisehir-TURKEY.
Prizes and Major Achievements: One of the works accepted to the Warsaw Caricature Museum in Poland, Yomiuri Shimbun Cartoon Contest (Japan 1982-1983-2001), Skopje Cartoon Contest (Macedonia 1989), Okhotsk Cartoon Contest (Japan 1995), Goethe Institut Cartoon Competition (Germany 2001). About 24 prizes in different exhibitions in Turkey.
Exhibitions:

Turkey; Eskişehir-Nasrettin Hoca (1978), Eskişehir (1988), İstanbul-Şile (1992), Eskişehir-Sivrihisar (1993), Ankara (1994), Mersin-Anamur (1996),

Germany; Staufen (1996),

Austria; Klagenfurt (1986), Landeck, Zams(2000).

Publications:

Karikatüre Selam (1982) (Greetings to Cartoons),

Çizgiler (1985) (Cartoons),

Çizgimizah (1995) (Humors in Cartoons),

Karikatür Sanatı ve Reklamcılık (1988) (Advertising and Art of Cartoon),

İletişimin Çizgi Dili Karikatür (1994) (Cartoon as a Language of Communication),

Yurtdışında Ödül Kazanan Türk Karikatürleri (1995) (Award Winning Turkish Cartoons Abroad),

KARİKATÜR (1998) (Cartoon),

Karikatür Müzeleri (1999) (Cartoon Museums).

See more at: http://home.anadolu.edu.tr/~aozer/

"Street Children" new deadline: 30 January 2008

The first International Cartoonet (by email) Contest Theme: "Supporting Street Children" organised by irancartoon website is extended.
New deadline for entries via e-mail is January 30, 2008.
See http://www.irancartoon.com/

Regulations of the contest at:

http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/2007/09/supporting-street-children.html

Visit the exhibition: http://www.irancartoon.ir/gallery/album181

An entry by Liu Hong - China (See right).

Anadolu University 3rd International Exhibition - Turkey

3rd International Cartoon Exhibition - Eskisehir Anadolu University - Turkey
Dear Cartoon Artist,
Anadolu University, one of the esteemed and well-known institutions in Turkey and among the ten mega universities in the world based on an international survey, will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year.
Anadolu University as an initiator of many innovations, has established the Research Center for Cartoon Art and Museum of Cartoon Art, both of which are the 'firsts' in Turkey. As it does on every branch of arts, Anadolu University places high importance on cartoon arts also. A number of exhibitions of famous cartoonists are produced each year. The collection of the museum becomes richer every day.
We invite all cartoonists to participate in the 3rd International Cartoon Exhibition. The theme of this year's exhibition is Celebration. We would like to furnish the museum with the works of famous artists. We hope that, by participating in the exhibition, you will support the museum and enrich the collection.
CONDITIONS
The theme of the exhibition is Celebration. Works which do not conform to the theme will be eliminated in accordance with the decision of the organization committee.
There are no technical or dimension limitations, but passe-partout and framing should not be done.
There is no limit to the number of works that can be submitted for the exhibition.
The submissions accepted for the exhibition will be exhibited at Anadolu University first, then in other cities and countries.
The works will become a part of Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art's archives. Upon request, cartoonists will be sent back their work but one copy will be reserved for the archives.
If the cartoonists choose to give the original or a copy of their work to Anadolu University, Museum of Cartoon Art, they will be the owner of all publication rights except in the books, catalogs, brochures, posters printed by the Museum and the University publications.
The works will be collected in an album and sent to the participants.
The participants should fill in the application form and send it with their work(s) to the address below no later than 10 April 2008.
Anadolu University
Museum of Cartoon Art

Akcami Mh. Malhatun Sok. No:6 Odunpazari

Eskisehir / TURKEY

WEB: http://www.krk.anadolu.edu.tr/karw/muze/