9.12.09

Results of Cartoon Contest "Climate Change", Ruse - Bulgaria

Results of Cartoon Contest “Climate Change?!”– Ruse, Bulgaria, 08.12.2009
Prize of Cartoon divide:
Oleg Goutsol – Ukraine
Rumen Dragostinov – Bulgaria
Special Prizes:
Yuriy Kosobukin – Ukraine
Vladimir Kazanevsky – Ukraine
Grigoris Georgiou – Greece
Trayko Popov – Bulgaria
Ivailo Tsvetkov – Bulgaria
Diploma:
Mohammad Saleh Razm Hosseini – Iran
Shahin Kalantarey – Iran
Aristides E. Hernandez Guerrero – Cuba
Heino Partanen – Finland
Doru Axinte – Romania
Cristian Topan – Romania
Huseyin Cakmak – Cyprus
Anna Sokolska – Poland
Miroslaw Krzyskow – Poland
Huey Nguyenhuu – USA
Stefan Jahsnowski-Herschel – Germany
Andre Mathijs – Belgium
Serafim Bakoulis – Greece
Hu Xuming – China
Biswal Bijayananda – India
Grigori Katz – Israel
Dilyana Nikolova – Bulgaria
Ognian Balkandjiev – Bulgaria
Prize of Comic Strip divide:
Luka Lagator – Montenegro
Mehmet Kahraman – Turkey
Special Prizes:
Milena Ivanova – Bulgaria
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov – Uzbekistan
Sava Babic – Serbia
Diploma:
Oleksiy Kustovskiy – Ukraine
Daniel Eduardo Varela – Argentina
Prize of Ruse Art Gallery:
Cecilia Montague – Ireland
Diploma:
Read Khalil – Syria
Ivana Valocka – Chech Republic
Athanassios Efthimiadis – Greece
Special diploma:
Cartoon Club “Cranberry” - Russia.
The opening of exhibition and award ceremony – 15th of December 2009, at 5 p.m. in Ruse Art Gallery, Ruse, Bulgaria.
In 2010 Europe Direct will organize traveling exhibition in all offices in Bulgaria.

8.12.09

Results of 4th Braila International Cartoon Contest - Romania

INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST BRAILA 4th edition 2009
Prizes:
Great Prize - Stefan Despodov (Bulgaria)
First Prize - Pavel Botezatu (Romania)
Second Prize - Vladimir Michalov (Russia)
Third Prize - Ahmet Aykanat (Turkey)
Special Prize - Yury Kosobukin (Ukraine)
Special Prize - Cristian Topan (Romania)
Special Prize - Antonio Garcia (Mexico).
Source: dum-dum .

7.12.09

16th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of BEER: GOLDEN KEG 2010

16th International Cartoon Humour Competition on the Topic of BEER: GOLDEN KEG 2010 - Slovakia
On Thursday, 1st April 2010, an exhibition of the best competing works, a festive announcement of the results and the handing of prizes to the most successful authors of the 16th competition in accordance with the Jury’s decision will take place as follows:
GRAND PRIZE (Grand Prix) Golden Keg and 500 €
1st Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 200 €
2nd Prize Small GOLDEN KEG and 150 €
3rd Prize Small Golden KEG and 100 €
The Competition Jury reserves the right not to grant any of the prizes or to grant other special prizes. The organisers will accept for the competition all works that will be delivered at the address of the Šarišská gallery in Prešov by 22nd February 2010.
The organisers of the competition reserve the right to publish selected works in promotional materials and to re-install the exhibition, while each competitor will receive a competition catalogue.
Competition rules:
1. Each author can send at maximum five original works, including graphic techniques.
2. The competition is open to anybody and everybody, and it is not restricted in terms of artistic design methods.
3. The formats of the works should not exceed the A4 dimensions.
4. The competition is non-anonymous. Each work should be signed on the reverse and bear the author's full address.
5. The rewarded works will become property of the BEER GALLERY in Prešov.
6. Send your works at the address:
Šarišská Galéria (p. Fedor VICO) ul. Hlavná 51, 08001 Prešov SLOVAKIA.
Please clearly mark the envelope with the word "PIVO".
E-mail: fedorvico@gmail.com

5.12.09

Houseman is the theme in 3rd International Contest of Caricature & Cartoon Vianden 2010

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF CARICATURE AND CARTOON OF VIANDEN
under the auspices of Le Ministère de l’Egalité des Chances
1. Subject: The Houseman
2. Deadline: 20th February 2010
3. Prizes:
Adult category:
1st prize: 3000 € + trophy
2nd prize: 2000 € + trophy
3rd prize: 1000 € + trophy
Four mentions: certificate of honour.
Youth category:
Prize Shopping Center Belle Etoile: 500 € + trophy. It means a special prize for young people up to 20 years old living in the Grande Région including Wallonia, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg.
4. Entries:
- Initially each participant can send at most 3 works in digital form via Internet to the following address: cartoon@caricature.eu. The author must indicate in his e-mail the following informations: his first name, last name, his complete address, his e-mail address, his phone number, his birth date, the category and the title or the number of each work. The characteristics of these electronic sendings are as follows: format JPEG, good quality and max. 500 KB per picture.
- Out of these e-mails the jury will make a selection of 90-120 drawings and will request from the authors of these works the sending by mail of the originals for the choice of the prizes and the publication in the catalogue. All these originals will be shown in the exhibition and in the catalogue. Their size will be min. DIN A4 (210x297 mm) and max. DIN A3 (297x420 mm), good quality paper, not folded and without a passe-partout. On the back side of every work must be clearly mentioned the first name, last name, complete address, e-mail address, phone number, birth date of the author, the category as well as the title or the number of the work. This deadline is 19th March 2010.
5. Technique: Free, black and white or in colour, without subtitles. Digitally created works are accepted. They must be signed by their creator on the back side and be numbered by 1/1. Photos and copies of original works will be eliminated.
6. Exhibition: The award ceremony of the adult category will be held on 7th May 2010 in the castle and the exhibition will take place in the Hall of the Knights of the Castle of Vianden from 8th May until 6th June 2010. It’s foreseen to show the works in other cities and in the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon of Vianden until 9th May 2011. The award ceremony of youth category will be held during the itinerant exhibition at Shopping Center Belle Etoile in Bertrange from 16th to 25 September 2010.
7. Returns: After these exhibitions the originals will be returned to their authors except the works selected for one of the prizes. The awarded works will become property of the organizer. The organizer cannot be held responsible for the loss or damage of the return postage.
8. Catalogue: The authors whose works will be selected for the exhibition will receive a free catalogue by mail together with his work(s). Prize winners will get their catalogue during the award ceremony.
9. Results: The publication of the results will be done on the website http://www.caricature.eu/ after 8th May 2010. The award winners selected by the jury will be personally informed by e-mail or by phone. The final decisions of the jury, which will meet on 20th March 2010, are incontestable.
10. Copyright: The selected participants allow the organizers to use their works only for promoting the author, as well as the event. All other copyright remains property of the author.
11. Generalities: The works should not have been awarded before. By taking part to this contest the participants agree to the abovementioned rules.
12. Address to send the originals to:
Musée de la Caricature et du Cartoon de Vianden
48, Grand-Rue, L - 9410 VIANDEN Luxembourg
13. Further informations:
Florin BALABAN Phone: +352 – 621 28 37 90
Pol LEURS Phone: +352 – 78 83 18
cartoon@caricature.eu
GOOD LUCK.

2.12.09

Against Violence International Cartoon Exhibition 2010 aiming at Fair Play

Against Violence International Cartoon Exhibition - Egypt 2010
1. The Federation of Cartoonists Organizations (FECO group of Egypt) & Pharaohs Magazine invites you to participate and take a part at the Against Violence International Cartoon Exhibition.
2. We address to all the professional and amateur cartoonists regardless their age from all over the world.
3. Theme: Against VIOLENCE .. Violence in sport .. Sporting Spirit .. Fair Play. (Egyptian soccer fans were attacked by their Algerian counterparts following the two countries' playoff match in Sudan in the 2010 World Cup qualifications)
4. The number of cartoons: Unlimited.
5. Artwork format should be JPEG, A4 size and 300 dpi as resolution.
*** (Please do not send ZIP or RAR Format).
6. Please attach a short biography in a word document (surname and first name, address, e-mail address and a photo).
7. Honorable Certificates for all the participants.
8. The cartoons must be sent at the e-mail address:
info@tameryoussef.com
info@effatcartoon.com
9. The cartoons will be published in the web pages:
http://www.effatcartoon.com/
and through Pharaohs Magazine January 2010 special issue.
10. Deadline: December 31, 2009.
Source: http://www.tabrizcartoons.com/en/detail.asp?ID=1398 .