2012/06/12

VAn Gogh by Chris Wahl-Australia


Ricky Gervais by Chris Wahl-Australia


Lemmy by Chris Wahl-Australia



Chris Wahl-Australia/Mad Magazine Cover



Saeed Sadeqi from Iran has been awarded the 2012/Cyprus Contest

Prominent Iranian cartoonist Saeed Sadeqi has been 
awarded the 2012 Success Prize at the 4th
 Cyprus International Cartoon Contest.

While the first award went to the Serbian artist
 Jovan Prokopljevic, Sadeqi received the Works of 
Excellence prize along with several other winners. 

According to the contest website, the participants
 of the 2012 Cyprus International Cartoon Contest 
were asked to focus on the theme of Euro Crisis. 

Born in 1974 in Jahrom, Sadeqi got B.A in painting from
 Tehran Art University and has many notable
 experiences in Graphic design and Cartoon. 

He has participated in a number of international competitions
 and received several awards such as First prize
 of International Caricature and Cartoon Contest
 Ciudad de Bogota, Colombia in 2008 and First prize
 of the 2nd International Cartoon Contest 
Mussel and Fish in Bulgaria in 2010.


Bob Staake-USA




Blower-UK


Bjork By Christ Wahl-Australia


2012/06/10

Jitet Kostana-Indonesia


Sevket Yalaz-Turkey/Books


The winner of Obama cartoon caption contest/Detroit Free Press/June,08,2012

Mike Thompson
Your Mike: The winner of our Obama 
cartoon caption contest
Jeremy O. Morford's entry was selected by you the reader
 as the winner of this week's cartoon caption contest! 
There were a number of funny entries among the
 170 submissions received this week, here are a few of my favorites:

Darn, I told my "spin writers" to put George Bush's name
 on that not unemployment. - Fred Hunt

Funny... I seem to be the only one pulling for
 it to improve. - Bryan Roy

Just my luck lately! I've found the missing anchor 
off Mitt Romney's yacht. - David Nosotti

Man! How can I get the birth certificate issue back 
up to the top.... - David G Van Reenen

That's odd, it's stamped "Made in China". - Patrick Hager

This might deep six my re-election! - Lew Goshorn

Doesn't even come close to that exquisite blend "Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction" manufactured by George Bush & Co.! - Lucas Brazzi

I have to admit my policies are "setting the hook" on the economy. - Jay Jeffrey

Breaking ground for new jobs is tougher than I thought! - Gerald Hunter

This is worse than the biblical millstone - Michael Masalin ·

What does the other side say? Oh, Titanic... - Jeff Peck

First Prize/aydin Dogan/Javad Alizadeh-Iran

Iran’s Alizadeh wins top 2012
 Turkish cartoon award
Iranian cartoonist Javad Alizadeh along with the Turkish 
artist Dogan Arslan has been named top winner of the 2012 
Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition in Turkey.
Congratulations!
The jury of the 29th Aydin Dogan International Cartoon
Competition announced the winners and the members’
comments on the selected works on June 5.

Second award went to Serbian artist Vladimir Stankovski 
and Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski was named 
as the third winner of this year’s competition.

Alieh Mazhari and Negin Naqian, the other Iranian representatives, 
are also in the list of ten remarkable cartoonists of the contest that 
are slated to receive the Success Award.

The prominent Iranian artist Firouzeh Mozaffari, as a jury member,
 also attended the 2012 Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition.

About 944 artists from 80 countries around the world with 2945 
works participated in this year’s competition.

The 29th competition’s award ceremony is scheduled 
to be held on October 7, 2012 in Istanbul.

The top winner will receive 8,000 USD and the Aydin Dogan
 Foundation Winner Award, while the First Runner up 
will gain 5,000 USD and the foundation’s First Runner up Award.