28.1.11

HADAF Somalia International Cartoon Competition 2011

The Association of East African Cartoonists (KATUNI )invites all cartoonists to participate in the
HADAF Somalia International Cartoon Competition.
Theme: The search for peace in Somalia: Achievements and Challenges
1st Prize: $ 3000
2nd Prize: $ 1500
3rd Prize: $ 750
Competition Rules
The maximum number of entries you may submit is 5.
Deadline for receiving cartoons is Monday 14 March, 2011.
All entries should be without any kind of frame and must not be folded.
Each entry must be accompanied by a short biography and/or CV as well as the name and contact details of the cartoonist.
Submitted works may be put on exhibition and used in future publications.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into it.
Submitted works will not be returned.
By participating, you grant the organizers the rights to publish and use the submitted artworks in any form including:
a) Reproduction and dissemination in printed form for all editions (e.g. study edition, school edition, special edition) and in unlimited print-runs (printing right). The printing right embraces in particular hard-cover editions, paperback editions, reprints, magazines, newspapers, collected works, via all distribution channels such as retail bookshops, other retailers selling books, book clubs, open and closed user groups and in all formats.
b) Electronic/digital storage and making accessible (including in databases) by means of digital or other storage or data transmission technology, with or without intermediate storage, in such a way that users have access from a place and at a time selected individually by them and can download, play back, interactively use and/or pass to third parties this work via PC, eBook, mobile telephone or other wired or wireless appliances, for example via the internet, UMTS, cable, satellite or other transmission paths (online right).
How to Enter:
Digital copies of the cartoons may be sent to katuni@gmail.com and should be in JPEG format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
Original artworks or clear prints (no photocopies) should be placed in an envelope marked “Hadaf Somali Cartoon Competition” and either sent to:
Hadaf Somali Cartoon Competition, P.O. Box 2074
Village Market 00621, Nairobi, Kenya
or dropped off at one of the following venues:
Alliance Francaise de Nairobi, Loita/Monrovia streets, Nairobi.
4D Innovative Ltd, 3rd Floor, Revlon Plaza, Kimathi St., Nairobi.
GoDown Arts Centre, Dunga Rd., Industrial Area, Nairobi.
Source: gathara

21.1.11

1st International Biennial of Resistance Cartoon Contest, Tabriz - IRAN

The First International Biennial of Resistance Cartoon Contest
Theme: Resistance to Occupation
Peripheral parts
cartoon
comic strip
This course: Creating the occupier characters
Animation: Animation works would be send on cd ,without restriction period and technique.
Size: min A4, max A3.
Entries: 5 works.
Please write your name, surname, address, phone number in Email or in backside of each work.
Sent works could be won in other contest.
Prize:
First prize: 1000 $ + diploma + statuette
Second prize: 500 $ + diploma + statuette
Third prize: 250 $ + diploma + statuette
And 5 selected prize : diploma + statuette.
Deadline: 1.sep.2011
Address:
Ashtab - martyr Montazeri Crossroads - Foundation for Preservation of
Monuments and Publishing Values of Sacred Defense - Tabriz - Iran
Zip code: 51396-13117
Tel: +98 +411 284 30 94
E.mail: info@arsoyism.com
rahim@tabrizcartoons.com
tabrizcartoons@tabrizcartoons.com
WEB: http://resistancebiennial.com/
Source: tabrizcartoons

12.1.11

Results the First International Cartoon Contest Canadian Banana 2011

Results the First International Cartoon Contest Canadian Banana 2011
with theme: IN VINO VERITAS (Alcoholism)
First Prize - Dusan Petricic (Canada) (Above)
Second Prize - Zoran Petrovich (Germany)
Second Prize - Vladimir Kazanevski (Ukraine)
Third Prize - Chengvey Yin (China)
Third Prize - Pavel Taussig (Germany).
10 Honorable Dyplomas:
Juri Kosobukin (Ukraine)
Jiri Sliva (Czech Rep)
Igor Varchenko ( Cyprus)
Florian Doru Krihana ( Romania)
Sergey Sichenko (Israel)
Vassili Aleksandrov (Russia)
Sergej Tjunin (Russia)
Junior Lopes Chuntra (Brasil)
Dariush Ramezani (Iran)
Andrej Popov (Russia)
M.M. Zlatkovski (Russia).
Special Prize of the Jury
Ali Divandari (Iran).
Special Prize of Studio DO
Boris Erenburg (Israel).
More winning cartoons at source: cartoonall

10.1.11

2011 Caretoon Contest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the U.S.A.

Enter Now...
the National Liberty Museum's 2011 "CARETOON" CONTEST
Transform the art of cartooning into drawings that "care!",

Submit an original work of art expressing positive attributes,
such as friendship, courage, peace or diversity.
FOUR PRIZES:
$500 ADULT International · $500 ADULT National
$500 STUDENT International · $500 STUDENT National
You don't need to be a professional cartoonist to draw a Caretoon.
The Caretoon Contest is open to people of all ages and artistic ability.
Group submissions are welcomed!
For an entry form or additional information, click here,
or call 215-925-2800, ext. 124.
Deadline: April 15, 2011.
National Liberty Museum
321 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
215-925-2800
http://www.libertymuseum.org/

6.1.11

Catalan Sports Drawing + Graphic Humour Competition 2011

CATALAN INTERNATIONAL SPORT BRIEFING
1st INTERNATIONAL SPORTS DRAWING COMPETITION
3rd SPORTS GRAPHIC HUMOUR COMPETITION
The Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya (Catalan Union of Sports Federations) announces its 1st International Sports Drawing Competition which is open to all artists and whose theme is sport in general.
The competition will be biennial, and is intended to bring sport closer to the work of artists in order to extend and promote drawing as an expression of sport.
The works can be presented until February 28.
The Union also announces its 3rd Sports Graphic Humour Competition which is open to all works published in the print media or on the Internet and all unpublished works submitted to the Unió de Federacions Esportives de Catalunya prior to the deadline established in the competition rules.
Sports Drawing
There will be a single indivisible prize of €3,000 (three thousand Euros), and two honourable mentions with a prize of €1,000 each, to be awarded by a majority vote of the jury.
Sports Humour
There will be a prize of €1,500 (one thousand five hundred Euros) and a second prize of €1,000 (one thousand Euros), both to be awarded by a majority vote of the jury.
You will find all the requirements for entries, the prizes, the jury and the other features of the competition in the attached documents at source:
http://feco-spain.blogspot.com/2010/12/ii-concurso-de-humor-grafico-union-de.html
More information: ufec@ufec.cat

5.1.11

Theme in 2nd International Cartoon Competition: Dictatorship & Tolerance

2nd International Cartoon Competition /Germany 2011
Beginning of the Competition: 1st January 2011!!
www.limes-net.com/contest2011
Regulations of the Competition
General
The competition takes place online and over this internet side only!
Sent originals cannot be accepted. A return isn‘t possible for organizational reasons.
Sending by e-mail can only be accepted in exceptional case.
Subject
The theme of the contest 2011 is: „Dictatorship and Tolerance
Prizes and Awards
1st Prize: 1000 € + golden elk
2nd Prize: 500 € + silver elk
3rd Prize: 300 € + bronze elk
and Special Awards + Competition Catalogues for the best placed cartoonists
Participation Conditions
Participants: all cartoonists
Organizer
Valeriu Kurtu (KURTUKUNST Gallery) in cooperation with the LIMES Image Agency im KU-DAMM Karee, Kurfürstendamm 207-208, Eingang Lietzenburger Str 80, 10719 Berlin
E-mail: contact@limes-net.com
Jury
The prize winners are determined by an independent jury.
Deadline
The deadline for receipt of cartoons: 15th March 2011.
The transmittal of the cartoons takes place in digital form via this internet page:
http://www.limes-net.com/contest2011
Number of Cartoons
Max. number of entries per cartoonist: 3.
The cartoons must be the original work of the artist.
Registration
The registration for the competition takes place via this internet page:
http://www.limes-net.com/contest2011
First you have to registry as a participants of the competition. After registration an email will be sentto you with your password for your personal area. In this area you can upload your cartoons on our server.
Size / File Format
Minimum Size: 500 KB
Maximum Size: 25 MB
File Format: JPG
Color Mode: RGB
Production
The cartoon can be produced analogue or digital, but it has to be sent to us only in digital format.
Caption
The caption takes place only via internet before uploading of the cartoons.
Dates
The jury starts with the determination of the prize winners from 20th March 2011.
The exhibition date is not yet fixed.
Presentation of the Cartoons
The contestant allows the organizer to use the cartoons for own puplications only in connection with this competition.
With the sending of the works for the competition the contestant accepts automatically the regulation of the competition and agrees the print of the cartoons for the exhibition and catalogues.
- Competition Catalogue
- Exhibition in Berlin. Place und Date (expected date May 2011) is not yet fixed.
- Cartoon-Museum in Vianden (Luxembourg), the date is not yet fixed.
- Stadtmuseum Ungheni (Moldova), the date is not yet fixed and online: www.limes-net.com/contest2011
All copyrights are held by the author of the cartoons.
The decision is final.
Errors and changes excepted.
The 2nd Cartoon Competition 2011 is supported by the Lotto Stiftung Berlin.
Source: syriacartoon

4.1.11

Results Biennial International Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2010

Theme: The influence of internet social networks
AWARDS
Personal Cartoon (Caricature)
-First Prize: $ 10,000
Luis Fabián Gaspardo, born 1969, native of Santa Fe, Argentina
Title: Mars.
-Second Prize: 1,800 euros
Gonzalo Álvarez Fernández, born in 1978 in El Paso (La Palma)
Title: Pedro Guerra.
-Third Prize: 1,200 euros
María Elena Galarza Hernández, born in 1966 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Title: Nelson Mandela.
Humorous Drawing (Cartoon)
-First Prize: $ 10,000
David Vela Cervera, born 1967, native of Zaragoza
Title: Your friends. (See top)
-Second Prize: 1,800 euros
Eduardo Gonzalez Rodriguez, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Title: Cebolleda.
-Third Prize: 1,200 euros
Xavier Tárrega Ratón, born 1980, native of Barcelona
Title: Facebook.
More info
Source: feco-spain