26.10.13

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.

23.10.13

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.
https://www.facebook.com/egyptcartoon.

22.10.13

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.

17.10.13

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.
Source: cartoonblues.

15.10.13

Results of the XIII contest of cartoons "Independence" 2013 with theme "The Knight’s Move"

Session XIII International Contest Jury cartoons «Independence» (Theme: «The Knight’s move») was held on October 04, 2013 in Kiev.
Jury: Volhov Nicholas (political advisor), Nikolai Kravchenko (Chairman of the NGO «Book Space»), Luk’yanchenko Igor (cartoonist), Nazimova Irina (byldredaktor newspaper Governmental Courier), Solonko Vladimir (cartoonist), Tovmach Eugene (administrative and marketing Director TRK «Bolshevik»), Kosobukina Nina, Kosobukin Maxim.
133 cartoonists from 39 countries submitted 497 works. 100 selected works presented in this catalog.
WINNERS OF CONTEST
1st Prize: Vasil Vozniuk (Ukraine) (Top), 2nd Prize: Riabokon Sergey (Ukraine), 3rd Prize: Andrei Popov (Russia)
HONORABLE AWARDS
Eshonkulov Mahmudzhon (Uzbekistan), Kazanevsky Vladimir (Ukraine), Nikolay Popov (Uzbekistan), Andrey Ryzhov (Russia), Savilov Victor (Ukraine), Semendyaev Sergey (Ukraine).
Special Awards:
Golub Viktor (Ukraine) — Diploma of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Kustovskiy Alexey (Ukraine) — Diploma of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
Hahanov Vladimir (Russia) — Honorable mention prize named Yuriy Kosobukin.
Butir Slobodan (Croatia) — Diploma of the Association of Cartoonists.
Source: http://www.cartoon.org.ua/?page=independ_13&lang=eng.

Menekşe Çam (Turkey)