Umoristi A Marostica 2011

The first International City and citizen Cartoon Contest - Tabriz-2011

Rules:
We address to all the professional and amateur cartoonists regardless their age from all over the world.

Theme: City & citizen
For example: Traffic, Apartment living culture, Citizen right, Air pollution, neighbor right, city imagine pollution, Irregular city constructions, Garbage Repelling, Destruction of traditional shape of the cities.

Regulations:
- The number of sent cartoons is 5.
please write your surname and first name, address, e-mail address, a photo
- All participants that their works enter in exhibition will receive the catalogue of the contest
- Sent works should be in 300dpi with 1500 pixel width or length and jpg format
- Sent works could be published or won in a contest before.

prizes :
- First Prize: $1000, Honorable Mention and Trophy.
-Second Prize: $ 500, Honorable Mention and Trophy.
-Third Prize: $ 250, Honorable Mention and Trophy.
-5 Honorable Mentions

The cartoons must be sent at the e-mail address:
citizencartoon@citizencartoon.com
tabrizcartoons@tabrizcartoons.com
http://www.citizencartoon.com

and by post: Address:
Tabriz Cartoonists Association,
Azerbaijan Cartoon Museum,
Former Tabriz Estate Library,
Golestan Garden,
Tabriz,
Iran

Deadline:19 Feb 2011

Tel: (+98 411)2843094
Holding by Tabriz municipality culture and art organization

The First International Contest of Graphic Humor ‘ The Ron Ron ‘ of Guatemala

The First International Contest of Graphic Humor ‘ The Ron Ron ‘ of Guatemala, invites all the humorists of the world to take part with the topic and to help us to create our Institution:

Theme:
a) Extreme art
Only will accept a one work for participant in format of 50×40 cms.
(In digital form : 150 ppi of resolution in file jpg – rgb color).
Entries produced on a computer should be numbered and signed by pencil… and send to:
guillelorentzen@gmail.com

With the intention of creating a fund for the Institution will ask for this time for 10.00 Euros for participant.

Donations of Institutions will be accepted and public in general, which will be published days later to the deadline that is indicated further on.

The donations will be realized by Western Union to the organizer: Guillermo Lorentzen Martínez. Address: 15 av.,5-50, zone 11, Carabanchel, Guatemala City, phone: (502)50023122

To send the Number of the deal to: guillelorentzen@gmail.com
Or by PayPal: Guillermo Lorentzen Martínez by e-mail: glorentzen@yahoo.com
The works will be exhibited in the blog:
www.humorchapin.wordpress.com

In the virtual museum
The deadline of admission of works is November 30, 2010.

The awards.
The awards in this first contest will consist of Diploms and Trophies and in accordance with the donations that are received it might give an award in Euros to.

Address: Humor Chapin
The Ron Ron- The Guatemalan Humor Online Magazinne
15 Av. 5-50, zone 11, Carabanchel, Guatemala City
Central America.

XIII PortoCartoon 2011

9th International Cartoon ContestKARPIK 2011 NIEMODLIN - POLAND

Competition rules:· Each author can send at maximum 2 original work·
The formats of the works should not exceed the A-4·
Each work should be signed on the reverse and bear the author's full address·
Theme: Fish, fishermen, fishing, anglers.
The following prizes have been established:·
1st Grand Prize of 2500PLN·
3nd x prize of 1000PLN
The works must arrive by 30 september 2011!
· After the exsposition, illustrations become the property of organizer and may be used for promotion purposes.· The winners as well as cartoonists qualifield to participate in the post-competition exhibition shall be provided with a free copy of a catalogue pubished by organizers.
Send your work to the following address:
OŚRODEK KULTURY [KARPIK 2011]ul. Mikołaja Reja 149-100 NiemodlinPOLSKA

2010 "Naji Al Ali" Int. Caryoon Contest on Palestine

The International Festival of Ironic Graphics Gagarin’s Smile

Deadline: 15 November 2010April 12, 2011 will mark the 50-th anniversary of the great breakthrough for the humankind - the first manned space flight. That day the whole world learned the Yuri Gagarin’s smile.
To mark this anniversary the Guild of cartoonists Mediasoyuz, Russia, and creative social network http://www.myhobbyplanet.ru/ (organizers) announce a cartoon contest "The International Festival of Ironic Graphics “Gagarin’s Smile””.
TERMS END CONDITIONS
The competition is open to professionals and amateurs from all continents.
Theme: Space.
Everything connected with the space exploration can be the subject of the author.
This could be the international cooperation in the development of the orbital stations, and "Star Wars", planets, stars, comets and other celestial bodies, astronomy and astrology, flights to distant worlds and contacts with alien civilizations, space communications and satellite navigation, space medicine, space technology, and their application in everyday life, the history of space exploration from Claudius Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev, and much more. Up to 3 entries are allowed per person.
The participant has to be the author of the entry. For artists who have opened their own page on the http://www.myhobbyplanet.ru/ there are special conditions for participation.
There are no restrictions in the choice of colors and styles.
Works previously published or awarded in other competitions are acceptable.
Welcome to report about such entries.
Organizers request not to send these works to other contests from the time of this announcement to April 12, 2011.
At the first stage only digital submission will be accepted. Please send your works to the following address: gagarinsmile2011@gmail.com, The works will be accepted from November 1, 2010 to November 30, 2010.
Please send also the short bio and author’s photo.
The entry form can be downloaded here:
Entry form Format: size A4 (297x210mm), 300dpi, RGB, JPG, the highest quality.
The jury will conduct the preliminary selection of works.
All selected entries will be posted on http://www.myhobbyplanet.ru/
The works will be reviewed by the international jury composed of:
Marcin Bondarovich, artist (Poland); Viktor Bogorad, artist (Russia); Vadim Boreiko, chief editor of the"Time” newspaper, former employee of the Baikonur space center (Kazakhstan); Anatoly Wasserman, journalist and public figure (Ukraine); Bayram Hajizadeh, artist, President of the Azerbaijan Cartoonists Uni on (Azerbaijan); Michael Zlatkovsky, artist, Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia (Russia); Svetlana Kruglova, art critic, Director of the Surgut Fine Arts Museum, the organizer and leader of the Biennale "Karikaturum" (Russia) Andrey Rijov, artist, Chairman of the Guild of Cartoonists Mediasoyuz (Russia); Andrey Feldshteyn, artist, founder and director of the International Cartoonists’ Club "Cartunion”, http://www.cartoonblues.com/ (USA).
The jury will sel ect the short list of works considered for awards. T
he short list will be posted no later than December 15 on the site http://www.myhobbyplanet.ru/ .
Artists whose works will be sel ected will have the opportunity to participate in the final stage of the competition.
• Authors will be required to send the originals of their works in A3 format, or high quality prints: format A3 with a "wet" signature (for works created with the use of computer programs).
• Works must be sent to: Kashirskoye, 11-3, Moscow 115230, Russia no later than February 1, 2011.
• Organizers are not responsible for any damage that may occur during shipping and processing. • The award-winning works will not be returned to the artists. The works which were not awarded, will be returned to the authors by their written request.
• By the fact of completing the entry form, the participant declares and acknowledges in advance that he passes the financial rights to organizers to use works in the souvenir and printed materials, the internet for two years (2011 -2012 years.) The exhibition will be open in Moscow no later than April 1, 2011.
• The exhibition could travel to the various Russian or other countries’ cities, which are closely related to the research and space exploration.
• Prizes: Grand Prix of the festival - 50 000 rubles
Various extra special and personal gifts fr om 15 000 to 5 000 rubles
• Only exhibited authors (about 70-100) will receive a printed catalog.
• Based on the agreement with the winner the organizers will cover his travel expenses to attend the ceremony in Moscow.
All information, including the additional clarifications and comments, will be posted on the portal http://www.myhobbyplanet.ru/.
This site will also allow authors to discuss their works or ask questions.