More on http://www.dicaco.com/.
12.10.15
9th International Cartoon Contest Urziceni 2015, Romania
The Culture House Of Urziceni Municipality andThe ACCES Association
The International Site BestCARTOONS.net and
CRISAN Publishing House
Are very glad to invite you to participate in
The 9th INT’L CARTOON CONTEST URZICENI 2015
RULES:
2. The artworks must be presented in a FREE THEME or/and on THE THEME - MIGRATION .
3. Deadline: 15 November 2015.
4. You can submit max 5 works for FREE THEME and max 5 works for THEME SECTION. The cartoons must not contain text. The name of the cartoons must contain the entrant’s family name, country and title of work (in english). The works must be digitized in 300 DPI resolution, RGB color mode, in JPG format, with the maximum limit of 2 MB.
5. Send your cartoons and your CV at the e-mail address urzicenicontest@gmail.com .
6. The cartoons submitted to the contest will be exhibited on the Urziceni 2015 web site for the attention and objection of all cartoonists to prevent similarity, copying and steeling. Any cartoon which is similar, copied or stolen will not be awarded. The contest results will be announced on the Urziceni 2015 web site .
7. The International Jury will award the following prizes for the best works, no mater the categories:
GOLD PRIZE ACCES 300 euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net
SILVER PRIZE ACCES 200 euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net
BRONZE PRIZE ACCES 100 euro, Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net
10 EXCELLENCY Special Honor Diploma and a Personal Gallery on BestCARTOONS.net
Jury’s decisions are final. Other Special Prizes offered by the sponsors may be awarded.
The prizes can be paid in Urziceni or can be posted to the cost of the receiver. The organizer does not assume any liability regarding taxes or bank charges. The original drawings of the prize winning entries should be sent in maximum two weeks from the results announcement, well wraped and protected against damages.
8. By participating, entrants grant the organizing body the right to use their entries as advertising for the Urziceni International Cartoon Contest and for the site BestCARTOONS.net (e.g. as cartoon books, catalogues, advertising in the press, internet and other media, separate promotional printed works such as posters, leaflets, etc., promotional gifts by the city council and/or cartoon contest organization, calendars, etc) without any special fees paid to the authors.
9. For further information, e-mail: urzicenicontest@gmail.com .
10. By submitting the works to Urziceni 2015 INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST, the artists accept the decisions of the Jury and the rules printed above.
GOOD LUCK!
Nicolae PETRACHE, General Manager of CH Urziceni.
10.10.15
Reduce it! – International Illustration Contest 2015, Hungary
Organizer
STKH Sopron és Térsége Környezetvédelmi és Hulladékgazdálkodási Nonprofit Kft.
Application begins
8. October, 2015.
Deadline for entries
12. November 2015.
Theme
The STKH Sopron és Térsége Kft. invites all professional and amateur cartoonists, satirical artists and graphic designers to an international illustration contest with the theme
flatten your trash before putting it in the bin
• because this way others garbage will fit inside as well
• and the garbage truck has to make fewer trips
• which is a more efficient use of resources
The entry can be either a poster, advertisement, logo or icon.
Awards
I. prize: 300 €
II. prize: 200 €
III. prize: 100 €
General rules
Entries can be sent via post or e-mail to the organiser of the contest.
Size of entries received by post should be A/3.
Cartoons sent by emails should be in JPG format (300 dpi), sized at about 2500 pixels wide if in portrait format and 3500 pixels wide if in landscape format.
Competition details
• All participants must be 14 or older.
• Previously published cartoons are not allowed for submission.
• Each competitor is allowed to participate in the competition with a maximum of 3 cartoons.
• Postal address for entries:
STKH Sopron és Térsége Kft, Sopron, Pf. 101, 9401, Hungary
Entries received by post will not be returned.
• Email address for entries: palyazat@stkh.hu
• Cartoons sent by email should contain the surname of the participant and a two digit serial number. A txt, doc or docx format text is required with the same two digit serial number, which includes the data of the participant and the cartoon. (listed below)
• Attachment of works received either by post or by email should include:
o Title of the work
o Name
o Address
o Phone number
o Email address of the applicant.
Rating
Works will be judged by a professional jury. Unique vision, expressiveness and eye catching aesthetic are the highest priorities when deciding the winners.
The jury will automatically disqualify any submission deemed offensive or inappropriate or any submission that violates copyright law or the rules of the competition.
A notification of the result of the competition will be sent to the provided email address by 20. November 2015.
Exhibition
The best submissions to the competition will be displayed on STKH’s website in the „www.stkh.hu/ Főbb információk / pályázatok / Reduce it!” section from 23. November 2015. The best submissions will be exclusively exhibited as a part of the European Week for Waste Reduction programme. The exhibition can be viewed at the Liszt Ferenc Conference an Cultural Center in Sopron from 23. November 2015.
Information
Further information about the competition will be constantly posted on STKH’s homepage in the „www.stkh.hu/ Főbb információk / pályázatok / Reduce it!” section.
Special professional advice can be asked of the competition’s artistic director Szénási Ferenc at the following email address: palyazat@stkh.hu.
The competition organizer claims the rights for all submission.
By taking part in the competition, all participants agree to the conditions and regulations of the competition.
By entering the contest, the participants accept that any decision made by the jury is not negotiable.
We wish good luck to all participants!
STKH Sopron és Térsége Környezetvédelmi és Hulladékgazdálkodási Nonprofit Kft.
Source: http://www.stkh.hu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Reduce-it_2015-english.pdf.
8.10.15
XV International Salon Humor Santa Clara 2015, Cuba
The humoristic journal Melaito and the Cuban Association of Authors and Artists (UNEAC) in Villa Clara, call for the XV International Salon Humor Santa Clara 2015.
Brazil is the invited country
Regulations:
The themes for the salon will be “free” and “erotic”.
The works must not exceed 25x35 cm in any technique including printed copies of digital images.
Three-dimensional works should not exceed 50x50 cm on any side.
Each participant can send a maximum of three works for each theme.
Entries should be posted no later than November 30th, 2015 to the following address:
XV Salón Internacional de Humor Santa Clara 2015
Casa de la Uneac
Máximo Gómez no. 107
entre Julio Jover y Martí,
Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.
Entries can also be sent via e-mail to the following address:
40melaito@gmail.com
Drawings should be formatted to a resolution of 300 dpi in format JPG or TIF.
Awards:
The Organizing Committee will award there prizes for each category, consisting on a artistic plate made by a well known local artist and a certificate, which will be posted by secured delivery. Other awards will be also given such as mentions of winning works.
A panel of prestigious cartoonist will decide the winners and its decision is final.
The awards will be given on December 20th at the UNEAC venue. Shortlisted cartoons and works will be part of an exhibition.
Organizing Committee
For more details about this announcement you can email: 40melaito@gmail.com
Source: cartoonblues.
7.10.15
2015 International Cartoon Competition on Environmental Protection, China
Rules
1. Theme: “Environment and Safety”
Focus on the theme of the competition, though contributions relating to environment protection are also accepted.
2. Participants
1) Students group of those from China and oversea universities,
2) Social group of professional and armature cartoonists
3. Schedule:
Submissions will be accepted beginning September 1, 2015
The deadline for entries is October 30, 2015 (EXTENDED:) 16 NOVEMBER 2015
Notice: Since the deadline is set upon the receipt of the works, it is suggested to have the works delivered as early as possible.
4. Prizes
Student group:
First Prize [1 competitor]: RMB 5,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Second Prize [2 competitors]: RMB 3,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Third Prize [3 competitors]: RMB 1,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Excellent Prize: [50 competitors]: souvenir and certification
Top-over-List Prize: souvenir
Notice: Top-over-list Prize is awarded to the top on the voting rank on the official website.
Social group:
First Prize [1 competitor]: RMB 6,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Second Prize [2 competitors]: RMB 4,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Third Prize [3 competitors]: RMB 2,000 (pre-tax) and certification
Excellent Prize: [50 competitors]: souvenir and certification
5. Organizer:
China Daily, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), China Environmental Protection Foundation(CEPF), China Journalistic Caricature Society, China Daily Website, 21st Century
6. Requirements
1) There is no limitation on number of works submitted by the participants.
2) Hand painting on paper should not be smaller than A4 size (210mm*297mm). Please mark the title, participant’s name, college name, address and other contact information at the back of the paper.
3) If you submit your contribution via email, please follow the specifications as follows :
- 300 dpi (file size no more than 2MB)
- JPG
- RGB
- longest side of the file should be under 1000 pixels
4) Criteria for paper submissions: title of the work, participant’s name, and the name of the college or university he or she attends are required, author’s pen name is optional.
Caption of email contribution should be in .TXT format and include the title of the work, participant’s name, institute participant attends, address, and telephone number.
7. Submission Format
1) Register on the official application webpage, fill in authentic information and upload your work(s).
2) Email to mhds@chinadaily.com.cn
3) Postal delivery to the address found below. Please write “Cartoon Contest” on the front cover of envelope.
8. Online Entry Form (downloadable)
All participants need to register for the competition by completing an entry form. Fill out the form as accurately and truthfully as possible. Photocopies are acceptable. Click to download here.
9. Contact Us
Address: 6/F, B3 Tower, Ziguang Building, No.11 Huixin Dongjie Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China
Tel: 86-10-8488 3652 Mr. Zheng
Official Website: www.newscartoon.com.cn
Email Address: mhds@chinadaily.com.cn
10. Additional Key Points
1) No fees needed for the competition
2) Cartoons and illustrations must be submitted
3) Winning contributions will be displayed on News Cartoon
4) Monthly champions are selected according to the number of votes and views the submission receives.
5) The result will be publicized on News Cartoon, as well as other newspapers or websites.
11. The Jury
1) The jury is made up of famous cartoonists, university professors and experts of environment-protection.
2) The jury will maintain an objective, fair and just principles of the entries submitted for judging and voting, and recommended the winners.
3) The winner will be announced in December 2015
12. Copyrights
1) The organizers reserve the right to refuse entries they consider morally, politically or religiously offensive, as well as work that is considered in violation of the acknowledged moral standards.
2) If a contribution has any intellectual property rights or copyright dispute, the organizer holds the right to revoke the participant’s eligibility to participate in the competition. Participants are solely liable for any consequence that may arise from submitting work to the competition. The participant must be the owner of all rights on the work submitted and it is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that his or her contributions to the competition do not generate any copyright or other intellectual property rights dispute.
3) News Cartoon reserves the right to use the contributions for presentation and media use.
4) Organizers and participants share the copyrights of the contributions; the organizers of the event have the right to display and distribute the works of the contestants.
5) By submitting a contribution to the competition, the participant is agreeing to accept all of the rules.
Source: http://cartoon.chinadaily.com.cn/zhuanti/dasai/2015/xuzhi.shtml.
Results 1st Veredas Graphic Humor Hall 2015 - Sete Lagoas city - MG - Brazil
WINNERS
Charge 1st Prize: Oktay Bingol, Turkey (Top)
Charge Honour Mention: Saman, Iran
Cartoon Honour Mention: Carlos Augusto Nascimento - Casso, Brazil
Caricature Honour Mention: Rui Miranda Cerqueira, Brazil
Popular Prize: Claudio Mancha, Brazil.
Source: http://festivalveredasdehumor.com.br/.
Kevin (Kal) Kallaugher to discuss “Political Cartooning in the 21st Century” in Istanbul
Thursday, October 8, 2015
17:00
Kal’s diverse portfolio for The Economist includes over 4000 published cartoons, 140 magazine covers, a 2008 board game he created about the world financial crisis titled “Credit Crunch” and 3 award-winning illustrated wall calendars. In 1999, The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons said of Kal, "Commanding a masterful style, Kallaugher stands among the premier caricaturists of the (twentieth) century."
Kal is a former President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Cartoonists Rights Network International. His work has been widely displayed at exhibitions including at the Tate Gallery in London and the Library of Congress in Washington.
More on http://www.schneidertempel.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/events/1474931329503507/.
6.10.15
Cartoons from Croatia in Belgium
CARTOONS FROM CROATIA IN BELGIUM
The Croatian Cartoonist Association was founded in 1985 in Zagreb and this year they celebrated their thirtieth anniversary of existence and successful work on promoting the cartoon in Croatia and the Croatian cartoon in the world. Ever since the beginning the Croatian Cartoonist Association has been a member of the international cartoonist association FECO. With Belgium, the Netherlands and England, Croatian cartoonists were co-founders of this international association.By participating in many festivals around the world, a lot of their members have won numerous prizes. Over the last few years they have organized Croatian cartoon exhibitions in Norway, France, Turkey, Austria, and Slovenia. So now in Kruishoutem (Belgium), with works of some 30 Croatian cartoonists, as Živko NIMAC, Zdenko PUHIN, Tomislav KAURIN, Srećko PUNTARIĆ, Roko IDŽOJTIĆ, Damir NOVAK, Petar PISMESTROVIĆ, Oto REISINGER, Nik TITANIK, Zarko LUETIĆ, Miroslav GERENČER ... These exhibitions, as well as the overall work of the Association, would not be possible without the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the City Zagreb.
More info on the Croatian Cartoonist Association you can find on their website www.hdk.hr.
You can visit the exhibition in the ECC from 27 September till 20 December 2015, every Sunday from 10 to 12 am and from 2 to 5 pm. Groups of 10 persons or more are welcome on other days by appointment.
More info on the exhibition on ECC website www.ecc-kruishoutem.be.
Mojmir Mihatov
Marijan Pavečić
Oton Reisinger
2.10.15
‘Gandhi through Eyes of Egyptian Cartoonists’ exhibition in Cairo, Egypt
1.10.15
II International Exhibition of Graphic Humor of Pernambuco 2016, Brazil
1) ABOUT THE THEME
The themes of the II International Graphic Humour Salon of Pernambuco (SIHG-PE) are Human Rights and Thinkers. The idea is to put Human Right issues such as violence against women, ethnic discrimination, homophobia, religious intolerance, children’s and adolescents’ exploitation and political persecution at the centre of discussion. Not leaving aside the guarantee of individual freedoms, the right to come and go and the polemic about privacy between the public and private.
2) ABOUT THE II INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC HUMOUR SALON- SIHG
The idea is to promote, through the cartoons and caricature contest, the reflection about Human Rights and about personalities who contributed with their ideas and thoughts to humanity.
3) ABOUT THE CONTESTANTS
a) Both, Brazilian or foreigners, amateur or professional, graphic artists in general may participate.
b) Each contestant can send up to 2(two) pieces of work for each category: cartoon or caricature, as long as they have not been awarded the price by the time they do so.
c) The candidate to enrol on this contest acknowledges being solely responsible for the veracity of the data and authorship of the work presented, being held liable on a civil and criminal basis, during or after the contest, if proven guilty.
d) Anyone working directly with the organisation, awarding committee and production of SIHG-PE is not allowed to participate, including and up to their second degree relatives.
4) ABOUT ENTRY
a) Registration forms will be provided on the website www.sihgpe.com.
b) The registration must be done exclusively via website.
c) The contestant must fill in a form for each category, attaching the corresponding pieces of work.
d) The pieces of work must be sent in A3 format (297 mm x 420 mm), horizontally or vertically, in JPEG, with resolution of 300 DPI.
e) The organising committee takes no responsibility for entries or work not received due to technical problems with computers, network congestion, communication failure, or any other factor that prevents the successful electronic entry.
f) The homologation of the entries will be published through the confirmation email.
g) The entry will imply accepting this rules and regulations in all its terms, including the deference of the final result of the contest and the items related to the destination and use of the drawings.
5) ABOUT THE FINAL DESTINATION AND USE OF THE WORKS OF ART
a) The pieces of work will go through a pre-selection process and the chosen ones will be shown at the SIHG-PE exhibition. The full list of selected works will also be published on the site www.sihgpe.com
b) The authors of the selected works will assign the copyright to SIHG to their use at the salon during the event and advertisement of the next ones. The prizewinner pieces may be permanently used for advertisement purpose of the current and future editions of the SIHG. In either case, it is not possible to charge for the use of the works, considering the selection and awarding criterion described in this rules and regulations.
6) ABOUT THE DEADLINES
a) The works can be submitted from 1st October, 2015 until 31st January, 2016 by 24:00
b) The judgement of the selected works will occur on 01st April 2016.
c) The exhibition will take place from 3rd April to 1st May, 2016.
7) ABOUT THE JUDJEMENT, SELECTION AND PRIZE
a) For the selection and prize awarding, the obeyed criteria will be: creativity, originality and pertinence to the proposed theme. The selection will be made by a judging commission whose decision must be accepted by the participants, with no possibility of being challenged.
b) The submitted pieces of work will be judged by two juries: a judging and an awarding one. The first mentioned, composed of prepared professionals in the area of graphic humour, will select around 120 (a hundred and twenty) pieces of work to compose the catalogue display. Among these, the awarded will be selected by the awarding commission.
c) From the selected pieces, 4 (four) will be awarded a prize, corresponding to one 1st and 2nd place for each category.
d) The jury may choose up to two works from each category to be awarded an Honourable mention, which does not include a monetary prize.
f) Possible omissions will be remedied in due time by the jury.
8) ABOUT THE PRIZE AWARDING
a) The selected will be awarded the following prizes per category:
CARTOON
1st Place................................R$ 6.000,00 and trophy;
2nd Place...............................R$ 2.000,00 and trophy;
Honourable mention........... Certificate
CARICATURE
1st Place................................R$ 6.000,00 and trophy,
2nd Place...............................R$ 2.000,00 and trophy;
Honourable mention........ Certificate
This makes a total of R$16.000, 00 (sixteen thousand reais) in prizes.
b) All selected works for the exhibition will have their works published in the SIHG catalogue.
c) The winners will be announced on 3rd April, 2016, at 4pm, upon the exhibition opening and through the site of the event. The winners will be informed via telegram, phone call and/or email.
d) The winners will receive the amount of their prize within 40 days from the disclosure via bank account deposit.
f) The amount will be subject to the tax in force at the moment of accreditation.
Samuca Andrade, Organiser
Clériston Andrade, Coordinator.
Source: http://www.sihgpe.com/#!sobre-2/cwv7.
21.9.15
24th International Contest for the Young up to 18 year old, Krusevac 2016, Serbia
TOPIC - LOVE
CATEGORIES
1. CARTOON
2. WRITTEN FORM (SHORT STORY, POEM, APHORISM)
3. STRIP
PROPOSITIONS
1. CARTOON - MINIMUM A4 (210 X 297 mm)
- MAXIMUM A3 (297X420), FREE TECHNIQUE
2. WRITTEN FORM - MAXIMUM TWO TYPED PAGES
3. COMIC - ORIGINAL, UP TO EIGHT TABLES, FREE TECHNIQUE
WORKS TO BE SIGNED IN FULL NAME, FAMILY NAME, ADDRESS, CONTACT PHONE AND e-mail.
WRITTEN WORKS TO BE SEND EXCLUSIVELY UNDER A CODE.
ALL WOKS TO BE PROPERLY PACKED AND SENT TO:
CULTURAL CENTER KRUSEVAC
INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR THE YOUNG
TOPLICINA No. 2, 37 000 KRUSEVAC, SERBIA
TEL/FAX: + 381 (37) 423 025, 28 983
E-MAIL: zlatnakaciga@kck.org.rs ; kck@kck.org.rs
Jury decision will be announced on - 05.02. 2016.
Awards will be handed at Final Festival Evening on April 1. 2016.
The Organizer will bear travel cost of awarded authors.
Festival official languages are Serbian and English.
DEADLINE: January 25th, 2016.
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18.9.15
Results of the 5th Sports Graphic Humour Competition 2015, Catalonia - Spain
WINNERS
1st Prize: Grigoris Georgiou, Greece (Top)
1st Prize: Grigoris Georgiou, Greece (Top)
2nd Prize: Armen Hamonagan, Indonesia
Results 8th International Biennial of Caricature "Masters of Caricature", Plovdiv 2015, Bulgaria
Today, 04.09.2015 at Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv in 13:00 was held a procedure on jurying the caricatures, participating in the Eighth International Biennial “Masters of Caricature” – Plovdiv’2015.
The selection and jurying of the caricature art works was conducted by the following jury:
Tsocho Peev – Plovdiv Cartoonists Association
Prof., Dr. Eng. Dimitar Dimitrov – Rector of UARD, cartoonist
Assoc. Prof., Dr. Angel Yankov – Director, REM – Plovdiv
Ass. Georgi Trifinov – Artist, AMDFA – Plovdiv
Stefana Mincheva – PR manager, REM – Plovdiv
The procedure was conducted in the following
AGENDA:
І. Selection of works in accordance with previously developed regulations in several stages as follows:
- Preliminary selection of caricatures in accordance with the topic of the Biennale;
- Selection of the caricatures to be presented in the Catalogue;
- Selection of the 20 best artists to be nominated for awarding diploma;
- Selection of 5 caricaturists to be awarded a master certificate;
ІІ. Evaluation of the nominated caricatures, remaining for storage at fund “Works of art” at Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv
The 209 caricatures by 116 artists (33 countries) were received and presented for selection. The caricatures to be printed in the Catalogue were selected.
After a secret ballot the jury decided:
1. For the Eighth edition of the Biennale in 2015 the following authors are declared “Masters of caricature”:
Marina Gorelova (Belarus)
Konstantin Atanasov (Bulgaria)
Trayko Popov (Bulgaria)
Halit Kurtulmus (Turkey)
Luka Lagator (Montenegro)
2. Artists nominated for awarding a diploma:
Hule Hanušić (Austria)
Bozo Stefanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Veselin Zidarov (Bulgaria)
Dilyana Nikolova (Bulgaria)
Zhivka Kisyova (Bulgaria)
Miroslav Bozhkov (Bulgaria)
Osvaldo da Silva Costa (Brazil)
Georgiou Grigoris (Greece)
Vladimir Semerenko (Russia)
Dmitry Kononov (Russia)
Mehmet Zeber (Turkey)
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan)
David Evžen (Czech Republic)
Darko Drljević (Montenegro)
Special award of the rector of UARD – Plovdiv, Prof., Dr. Eng. Dimitar Dimitrov:
Gennadiy Nazarov (Ukraine).
04.09.2015
Plovdiv
Source: Tsocho Peev.
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