On 1st of October at 6 pm was the opening of the tenth international edition of the international biennial "Masters of Caricature". This year topic was "The Pig and the Culture".
In the tenth anniversary edition of the International Biennale “Masters of Caricature”, Plovdiv 2019, took part 87 artists with 203 cartoons. They present 30 different countries from Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, Africa.
The jury consisted the members: acad. Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov (president of UARD, cartoonist), assoc. Prof. Angel Yankov, PhD (director, REM – Plovdiv), Tsocho Peev (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Irien Trendafilov (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Yanko Kavrykov (painter, REM – Plovdiv).

They have awarded the following names with the title Master of Cartoon for 2019:

Veselin Zidarov -BULGARIA

Miroslav Bozhkov- BULGARIA

Igor Smirnov- RUSSIA

Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek- POLAND

Makhmudjon Eshonkulov- UZBEKISTAN.

The Special Prize of the President of the University of Agribusiness and rural development - Plovdiv goes to:

Furkat Usmanov- UZBEKISTAN

And the nominations for the tenth anniversary edition are:

Steffen Jahsnowski – Herschel -GERMANY

Ali Reza Abousaidi- IRAN

Huseyin Cakmak -CYPRUS

Cai Weidong -CHINA

Zlatko Krstevski -MACEDONIA

Marco Ramos- USA

Ricardo Ferreira -PORTUGAL

Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu- ROMANIA

Anatoly Radin- RUSSIA

Erdogan Basol- TURKEY

Mirsaid Gaziyev- UZBEKISTAN

Husan Sodiqov- UZBEKISTAN

Gennadiy Nazarov- UKRAINE

Darko Drljevic- MONTENEGRO