"Shirozhan" international cartoon group is the most active
and the only nongovernmental group in Iran that in its
annual exhibitions we've witnessed the presence of credible
 contemporary cartoonists that by their original artworks
 accepted the invitation of this group.In the 8^th exhibition
of "Shirozhan" in spite of permanent members
 (Hamidreza Mosayebi, Paulo Dalponte (Italy),
Morteza Azarkheil, Mohsen Rasolof and Behzad Riazi),
two groups of Iranian and foreign guests are present.
Foreign guests are: Pavel Constantin (Romania),
 Florian Crihana (Romania), Oleg Goutsol (Ukraine),
Cristobal Reinoso (Argentina) that all of them
are credible cartoonists and caricaturists of the world.
This exhibition is to be held from 29^th July to 7^th August 2008
 in permanent gallery of Iranian House of Cartoon in Tehran.
You can contact with (Hamidreza Mosayebi):
  hamidreza2197@gmail.com    

The results of the 18th International
Cartoon Competition “Umor la…Gura Humorului"
Gura Humorului - Romania
1st Prize - Octavian Bour - Romania
2nd Prize - Dan Silviu Turculet - Romania
3rd Prize - Seiju Ogushi – Japan
The prize “George Gavrileanu” ex aequo to
 Sava Babic from Serbia and Stefan Despodov from Bulgaria
With Many Thanks from Mr.Florian


the Results 17th Daejeon International
 Cartoon Contest-2008

Grand Prize:
Pavel Constantin / Romania

Gold Prize:
Muhittin Koroglu / Turkey

Silver Prizes:
Kikuchi Masafumi / Japan
Valentin Druzinin) / Russia

Bronze Prizes:
Won Jeong Eun / Korea
Constantin Ciosu / Romania
Sun Shen Ying / China
Yuriy Kosobukin / Ukraine

Special Prizes:
Babic Sava / Serbia
Shin Joong Seok / Korea
Hafiz Nesiroglu / Azerbaijan
(Bahman Jalali Nokandeh / Iran
Congratulations!




first prize:Kessusanto Liusvia - Indonesia
Results of the "Drought & Water"  2008  Turkey

second prize: Raed khalil - syria
Congratulations!
Third prize:Jordan Pop-Iliev - Macedonia
Finalists

Address: Festival International Cartoon in Saitama
Plaza North. 1-852-1; Miyaharachyou,
Kita-ku Saitama-shi; Saitama-ken
331-0812 JAPAN

CONTACT: Director: Akira Sato
TELEPHONE: 81-48-653-9255
FIRST YEAR: 1991
FREQUENCY: Annual
ELIGIBILITY: Only invited participants
CLASSIFICATION: Gag
CATALOGUE: Every Participant
THEME: a) Gathering(Shugo!); b) FREE
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: 1 in each category.
Can be either original cartoons or copies of them...
MAXIMUM DIMENSIONS: A3
DEADLINE: August,18. 2008
EXHIBITION: November
AWARDS: None
ARTWORKS: Will be returned



1st place: Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz - Poland
Results 7th International For pro FOR
 Praha - Czech Republic
Theme: “The window – the eye of building”
301 cartoons, 146 authors, 35 countries.
Winners
1st place: Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz - Poland (See top above)
2nd place: Břetislav Kovařík - Czech republic
3rd place: Slawomir Luczynski - Poland
4th place: Goran Markovic - Serbia
5th place: Bobo Pernecký - Slowakia
Prize for authors of Czech republic:
Cena Svatopluka Pitry: Jan Hrubý
Cena e-GAGu: Marie Plotěná
(Jury: president jury M. Barták, ČR - winner 2007; F. Vico, SR;
K. Kanala: SR; A. Vyjidák, CR; J. Skoupý, CR; L. Běhal,
 CR ; I. Hanousek, CR - secretary jury).


Results of Ken Sprague Fund International
Political Cartoon Contest-2008
Theme: Earthworks
1st Prize: Mikhail Zlatkovsky / Russia
2nd Prize: Constantin Ciosu / Romania
3rd Prize: Tawan Chuntraskawvong / Thailand
Runners up were:
1. S. Ashmarin (Russia)
2. Stefano Gamboni (Italy)
3. Igor Kondenko (Ukraine)
4. Mahmood Nazari (Iran)
5. Raed Khalil (Syria)
6. 'Sidao' (Brazil)
7. Wassily Alexandrov (Russia)
8. Thom Dean (Indonesia)
9. V. Druzhinin (Russia)
10. Ilya Katz (Palestine)
11. Bahman Jalali Nokandeh (Iran)
12. Milan Bukovac (Serbia)
13. Bernard Bouton (France)
14. Oleg Goutsol (Ukraine)
15. Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine)
16. Wolfgang Leder (Germany)
17. Kate Evans (UK)
18. 'Martono' (Indonesia)
19. Cristina Barnazzini (Italy)
20. Branko Ilic (Croatia)


Animals
Torcious / Colombia
Click Here

Valeriu Kurtu/Germany
Results of The Festival of European
 Satire "BILLYGOATS"
Click Here



Second winner: Mahmoud Nazari - Iran
Congratulations
Winners International Cartoon
Contest "Drought and Water"

First winner: Jo Xavier Sombra - Brazil


Third winner: Umit Mufit Dincay - Turkey

Website of Cartoon International Expert Committe opened two days ago.
 This website will be updated by its 8 professional members.
 An email containing instructions on how to use the website with there
 own username and password has been sent. Other cartoonists or visitors
 are not allowed to register an post threads in this website but they can vote in polls.
 8 professional members are:

1- Rahim Baggal Asghari (Director of Tabriz Cartoon Association and Rahimcartoon)
2- Marcio Leite (Director of great Brazilian cartoon contests and manager of Brazilcartoon)
3- Seyran Caferli (Director of cartoon contests in Azerbaijan and manager of AzCartoon)
4- Erdogan Karayel (Director of Don Quichotte cartoon contests and website)
5- Alessandro Gatto (The greatest and most famous cartoonist in Italy)
6- Julian Pena-Pai (professional cartoonist and great finder of similarities)
7- Huseyin Cakmak (The greatest cartoonist in Cyprus and manager of Yeni Akrep)
8- Masoud Shojai Tabatabaei (Director of Iran Cartoon Home and manger of IranCartoon)


Oguz Gurel / Turkey
Milenko Kosanovic / Serbia
Rahim Baggal Asgari / Iran
Raed Khalil / Syria
Jeyhun Abdulla / Azerbaijan
Voting procedure of jurors will be held through Internet.
 To view the regulations of this contest, click here