29.10.15

Results First International Kosova Cartoon Festival 2015, Republic of Kosovo

First Prize: Petar Pismestrovic - Croatia (Top)
Second Prize: Carlos David Fuentes - Cuba
Third Prize: Saman Torbi - Iran
Special Prize: Marcin Bondarowicz - Poland
Special Prize: Mehdi Azizi - Iran
Special Prize: Omer Cam - Turkey
Special Prize: Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero / ARES - Cuba
Special Prize: Amir Soheili - Iran
MoneyGram Prize: Samedin Latifi with 4245 "Like"s.
Sources: facebook & cartooncenter.

24.10.15

VIII International Caricature Contest 2015 - Magazine "Nosorog" ("Rhinocervs")

VIII INTERNATIONAL CARICATURE CONTEST - MAGAZINE “NOSOROG” (“RHINOCERVS”)
The organizer of VIII International caricature contest is The International magazine for satire, humor and cartoons “Nosorog” (“Rhinocervs”; www.nosorog.rs.sr ; http://nosorog-rhinocervs.weebly.com/ ). The contest is opened for proffesional or amateur cartoonists, from any country, any nationality, age, sex, or profesion.
THEME: The world's greatest writers from Homer to the present day!
Prizes:
First Prize: 300 euros + Diploma
Second Prize: Diploma
Third Prize: Diploma
Five ( 5 ) Special Diplomas
Conditions of entry:
1. Technik: Any technik will be accepted.
2. IMPORTANT: Write on each caricature which writer you present! (you may find photos of writers on Wikipedia, or somewhere other on net)
3. Entries: maximum 7 entries will be submitted.
4. Size of entries: A4, A3 format.
5. Send your name, surname, address, country and the e-mail.
6. You may send by post or by E-mail.
7. E-mail for sending art-work: nosorog.magazine@gmail.com
Note: 300 dpi resolution; JPG, JPEG format.
8. If you send by post, address is:
MAGAZINE “NOSOROG”
CARA DUŠANA 4
78000 BANJA LUKA
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Note: Please, do not send originals, because we will not send you back!
9. DEADLINE
Entry deadline is December 25th 2015 (Please write on envelope: PRINTED MATTER - NO VALUE !)
10. Some Names of BIG Writers:
1. Homer
2. Sophocles
3. Euripides
4. Aristophanes
5. Cicero
6. Vergil
7. Ovid
8. Horace
9. Dante
10. Francesco Petrarca
11. Giovanni Boccaccio
12. William Shakespeare
13. Jane Austen
14. William Blake
15. Charles Dickens
16. John Milton
17. George Orwell
18. Harold Pinter
19. Marcel Proust
20. Gustave Flaubert
21. Émile Zola
22. Victor Hugo
23. Alexandre Dumas
24. Honoré de Balzac
25. Stendhal
26. Jules Verne
27. Marquis de Sade
28. Molière
29. Miguel de Cervantes
30. Mario Vargas Llosa
31. Miguel de Unamuno
32. Federico García Lorca
33. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
34. Lope de Vega
35. Leo Tolstoy
36. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
37. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
38. Maxim Gorky
39. Vladimir Mayakovsky
40. Sergei Yesenin
41. Ernest Hemingway
42. William Faulkner
43. Mark Twain
44. Edgar Allan Poe
45. John Steinbeck
46. Tennessee Williams
47. Henry Miller
48. Harper Lee
49. John Updike
50. Walt Whitman
51. Norman Mailer
52. Arthur Miller
53. Emily Dickinson
54. Isaac Asimov
55. Jack London
… (also, you can draw some other BIG writers)
PLUS:
Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia, Nobel Prize)
Branko Ćopić (Yugoslavia)
Plus: FREE choice, not included for Prizes (only for Exhibition):
Goran Kljajić (Republika Srpska).
11. EXHIBITION
The exhibition will take place in the galery of the National Library of Republika Srpska, city Banja Luka
12 - IMPORTANT NOTE: In the event that the State, from which the awarded artist is, under international sanctions, the organizer is not liable if it can not deliver the prize!
13 – IMPORTANT NOTE – 2: The Organizer of this Cartoon Competition has permanent troubles to deliver diploma or money-prize, if winner is from Iran! The Organizer is not responsible for that.
14. Note: Sender must be author of caricatures!
14. Jury members:
Mrs. Irina Iosip, painter, cartoonist and Editor of "Salt and Pepper" magazine - Romania
Mrs. Jasmina Bukva, satiric writer - Serbia
Mr. Aleksandar Blatnik, painter, cartoonist - Serbia
Mr. Milenko Kosanovich, cartoonist - Serbia
Mr. Milenko Mihajlovich, painter, cartoonist - Serbia
Mr. Miladin Berich, writer, Editor, Serbs Republic /BA
Mr. Goran Kljajich, writer, Chief Editor of “Nosorog” ("Rhinoceros"), Republika Srpska.
We wish good art-work and successful participation to everyone.
International magazine for satire, cartoon and caricature “Nosorog” (“Rhinocervs”)
City Banja Luka
Republika Srpska
Balkan, Europe
www.nosorog.rs.sr
http://nosorog-rhinocervs.weebly.com/
Source: http://www.nosorog.rs.sr/diff/diff2.html.

19.10.15

19th Dutch Cartoonfestival 2016, The Netherlands / Holland

19th Dutch Cartoonfestival 2016, The Netherlands / Holland
Regulations
1. PARTICIPANTS Cartoonists from all over the world.
2. NUMBER OF ENTRIES A maximum of 8 cartoons total from each participant is permitted. Originals as well as computer prints, screen prints or good quality copies are welcome. Originals will be sent back on request.
3. DIMENSIONS Max A4 (21x29,7 cm). Each entry must state on the verso of the drawing, the name and address of the cartoonist. NO CAPTIONS PLEASE.
4. THEMES “The 4 Freedoms”:
freedom of speech and expression
freedom of worship
freedom from want
freedom from fear
5. DEADLINE Thursday December 31, 2015
6. ADDRESS
19th DUTCH CARTOONFESTIVAL, BOX 2180, 1180 ED AMSTELVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS / HOLLAND
7. THE PRIZES
First Prize: € 1000 + trophy
Second Prize: € 750 + trophy
Third Prize: € 500 + trophy
FECO Award: € 500 + trophy
TULIP Award: € 250 + trophy
4 Special Mentions: diploma/certificate
Bert Witte Trophy 2016.
Travel expense and hotel stay for prize-winners will be paid by the organisers.
Opening ceremony & prize-giving: May 20, 2016.
8. CARTOON BOOK All cartoonists whose work(s) have been selected for the exhibition will receive a free sample of the catalogue, maximum four months after the closing date of the exhibition. They can also collect their books during the exhibition period.
9. COPYRIGHT By participating the cartoonists confer the right on the organizers to publish the selected works until ½ year after the exhibition, for no other purpose than the promotion of the cartoonist, The Roosevelt Foundation and the Dutch Cartoon Festival. The copyright of the works remain always to the cartoonists.
10. INSURANCE The works received will be insured by the organizers, equal to the value indicated by the cartoonist on the entry-form. If the value of the cartoon is not indicated, the works will be insured for € 50 Euro each.
Regulations in languages + Entry Form in PDF on source.

13.10.15

Regulations for the International Exhibition Satyrykon - Legnica 2016, Poland

SATYRYKON LEGNICA 2016
Regulations
Participation conditions
1. SATYRYKON 2016 International Exhibition is an open competition.
2. The objects of the competition are drawings, graphics and other works of fine arts and photography created with the use of optional techniques, being originals, completed within the recent two years (2015-2016), and qualified by artists to section (drawing without captions preferred):
SECTION I – THEME: EVIL
SECTION II – JOKE AND SATIRE.
3. WORKS AWARDED IN OTHER COMPETITIONS will be excluded from the competition SATYRYKON.
4. The format of works -maximum A3 (297 x 420 mm).
5. Works should be sent or delivered by February 8, 2016 (date of the postmark), packed in a protective cover to:
SATYRYKON – Legnica 2016
International Exhibition
Chojnowska 2, 59-220 Legnica, Poland
Organisers are not responsible for transport damages.
THE PARTICIPANTS ARE KINDLY ASKED NOT TO POST, THE WORKS VIA ELECTRONIC MEANS AS THESE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR THE COMPETITION.
6. Participation in the competition is free of charge. However, organisers reserve the right to include one of the submitted works in the Satyrykon Gallery. The work, chosen by the author, will in this way cover our costs of mailing.
7. Works should be accompanied by their author’s photo or caricature, a short biographical note and a filled application form (PLEASE USE CAPITALS).
Prizes
1. Works for the competition will be qualified by the international Jury.
2. Jury will award the following prizes:
Grand Prix SATYRYKON 2016 – pure gold key and purse amounting to 8,000 PLN
2 gold medals and purses amounting to 6.000 PLN
2 silver medals and purses amounting to 5.500 PLN
2 bronze medals and purses amounting to 5.000 PLN
and 4 special prizes amounting to 4.000 PLN each
Director of Legnickie Centrum Kultury (Legnica Culture Centre) for a photography work in amount of 4,000 PLN award
Mayor of legnica award in amount of 4.000 PLN
Organisers plan to award the author of the best DEBUT and will organise her/his individual author’s exhibition at SATYRYKON Gallery included in Satyrykon 2016 programme as well.
Jury has the right of final distribution of the statutory prizes, change of their amount, or non – awarding them or non – awarding the Grand Prix SATYRYKON. Jury’s decisions are final.
The competition results will be announced on March 1, 2016 at Satyrykon web site: www.satyrykon.pl.
No t e !
AWARDS ARE SUBJECT TO TAXATION ACCORDING TO THE CURRENT REGULATIONS. The condition to pay the authors is their arrival for the opening of the exhibition and collection of their awards by December 15, 2016, or it can be transferred into a bank account in a currency specified by the author.
Participants’ privileges
1. Authors of work qualified to the exhibition are given a presentation copy of the exhibition catalogue.
2. Organisers provide competition prize-winners with gratuitous participation in the SATYRYKON 2016 event on June 16-19, 2016.
3. Works sent to the exhibitions will be exhibited in the country and abroad after the main exhibition, and then will be returned to their authors by the end of 2017.
WE KINDLY ASK THE AUTHORS TO NOTIFY US ABOUT ANY CHANGES TO THEIR ADDRESS DATA – RETURN ADDRESS / PHONE / E-MAIL.
Final provisions
1. Organisers reserve the right to use the sent works for SATYRYKON advertising purposes without any special fees paid to the authors: to be exhibited and reproduced in a variety of advertising materials, as well as printed and circulated in catalogues.
2. The prize-winning works become the property of the organisers and will be included in the collection of the Satyrykon Gallery.
3. The exhibition organisers are the final judges in interpretation of the regulations.
4. Sending her/his work the artist agrees to the mentioned above rules and regulations and agrees to publishing of the author’s profile in the post-exhibition catalogue.
5. Legnica Culture Centre (+4876 72-33-700; e-mail: lck@lck.art.pl) and Satyrykon Foundation (+48 76 852-23-44; e-mail: satyrykon@wp.pl – PL 59-220 Legnica, Chojnowska 2 – are organisers of the International Exhibition SATYRYKON – Legnica 2016.
T i m e t a b l e:
Deadline for works reception February 8, 2016
(date of the postmark)
Jury meeting February 19-21, 2016
Post-competition exhibition June 8 – August 28, 2016
Return of works after the exhibition cycle December 31, 2017
Download the Application Card  here.
Source: http://en.satyrykon.pl/regulamin/.

Notice of the 5th International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2016, South Korea

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More on http://www.dicaco.com/.

Winners in the 4th International Cartoon Contest SICACO 2015, South Korea