“WORLD CARTOON” POLL ANSWERS…

Dear DQ
First of all congratulations on a carefully thought out group of questions.
 
l) Humour makes the world go round….a stoppage is a disaster.There will always
be something to make a cartoon of. Even the stone age guys scratched on walls.
Perhaps more careful research into a subject will give more ideas.
Too much and the subject isn’t funny anymore.
 
2) We must carefully segregate….
SIMILAR from PLAGIATES.Very thin line seperates the two.
Similar can be an accident, Plagarism is not.Your suggestion to exhibit all submissions…
will sort out the real bad guys.
More professionalism from jurys who know what cartooning is all about.
Not just dummies who wouldn’t see a joke if it bit them in the leg.
 
3) The word censorship and everyone gets hot under the collar.
This is a very wide subject and people tend to get bogged down with their own opinions.
Perhaps the best is ‘self-censorship’ up to the individual artist.
 
4) Back to the roots with cartoons like we drew them 60 years ago.
No computer…no Photoshopping….just pen+ink.
OK so I do use photoshop to colour in my black+white scans…guilty.
But there are artists out there who use photos which are
photoshopped until they have nothing  to do with cartooning
as we from the ‘old school’ knew it.
 
5) Cartoonists and Solidarity?!
Here we are on a very difficult area full of pitfalls.We are a huge
group of individuals working individually,
the idea to bring them together to speak with one voice is well intenioned.
You only have to put up ‘Censorship’ and ‘Plagarism’ and you have a thousand
‘buts and ifs’ and it goes off in different directions, without even a compromise.
We have seen the furtherance of Digital Cartooning being more acceptable.
But even this has a long way to go.
Yours Cartoonfully
 
Derek Easterby

Hi,
in my opinion based on your question…
A cartoon competition should be able to present a new theme that challenge
cartoonists to test their creative boundaries such as utopian themes or
something about the future that never happens before.
More concrete examples will be cartoons about doomsday, global crisis, waste crisis,
aliens, outer space and so forth.
Pablo Picasso previously found that dove was a peace symbol.
 
Many cartoonists as the result use this symbol when they draw about peace.
This will be a challenge for cartoonists to create new icons that can be a legend.
The catalog should be made in electronic version (a pdf format for instance) and
distributed to the participants as well as the jurors. I think that cartoons do have
 limitations. We have learnt about it from the Denmark or Iranian holocaust cases.
Freedom of expression attaches to responsibility and tolerance to others
albeit different cultures or religions.
 
A good cartoon will not cause a bloodshed. I agree that a good cartoon
should be able to highlight the theme and idea, and the rest is a matter of technique.
A cartoon presenting a good idea although being made with painting technique
can still be considered a cartoon.
Consequently, a mediocre idea in a painted cartoon may not be a cartoon
at all.It is necessary to conduct a conference or produce an agreement
on cartoonist rights across the world.
There should be a universal right on copyright or fair cartoon competition. 

Tommy Thomdean
cartoonist. illustrator
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www.thomdean.com
www.thomdean.multiply.com
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ANSWERS/YANITLAR:

DEREK EASTERBY
TOMMY THOMDEAN
JOHN GREEN
MELLO
MOHAMED ALAFIA
BURAK ERGÝN
BORIS ERENBURG
HÜSEYIN ALPARSLAN
SAIRAM AKUNDI
ASIF AHMED
ERAY ÖZBEK
SEYRAN CAFERLÝ
MENEKÞE ÇAM
MARLENE POHLE
CARLOS BRITO
UGO SAJINI
MARCELO RAMPAZZO
DEREK EASTERBY
DANIEL LOTERO
EMRAH ARIKAN
BENJAMIN HEINE
MEHMET TURAL
TED RALL
MARIO SUGHI
TUFAN SELCUK
DIEGO JORDAN PEREIRA
PETER NIEUWENDIJK
DARKO DRLJEVIC
BERNARD BOUTON
PETRA HANZAK

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(PHOTO: E.KARAYEL/KARIKATÜR MÜZESI/21.04.2009)

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Önemli karikatur yarismalari icin
asagida belirtilen ozelliklere sahip karikaturculer araniyor:

1) Artik ulusal ve uluslararasi yarismalara katilmayan,izlemeyen
2) Son karikaturunu cizdigi tarihi hatirlayamayan
3) Ýnternetle fazla tebelles olmayan
4) Kulaklari fiskos,dedikodu ve soylentileri duymayan,duysa da iplemeyecek olan
5) Bazý yarismaci isimlere allerjisi olmayan,
(Gene calmistir kerata) diye on yargisi bulunmayan
6) Gelen karikaturleri incelemek zaman alacagindan,prostatik engeli olmayan
7) Sadece,bilgi ve birikimlerine dayanarak,objektif bir gozle en iyiyi arayan….
ONEMLE DUYURULUR!..
 
Erdogan Bozok

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FOR THE IMPORTANT CARTOON CONTESTS THE CARICATURISTS ARE WANTED HAVING
THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:
 
– WHO DO NOT PARTICIPATE AND FOLLOW THE NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS,
– WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THE DATE OF THEIR LAST CARTOONS,
– WHO ARE NOT CHEEK BY JOWL WITH INTERNET,
– WHOSE EARS DO NOT HEAR INSINUATIONS, GOSSIPS AND
WHISPERINGS, WHO WILL IGNORE EVEN IF THEY HEAR,
– WHO ARE NOT ALLERGIC TO SOME CONTESTANTS’ NAMES,
WHO ARE NOT PREJUDICED
(THINKING “THE RASCAL HAD STOLEN AGAIN.”)
– WHO DO NOT HAVE ANY PROSTATIC
COMPLICATION BECAUSE IT TAKES
UP TIME TO EXAMINE THE SENT CARTOONS,
– WHO SEEK THE BEST OBJECTIVELY ONLY BASED ON THEIR
OWN KNOWLEDGE AND ACCEREDITIONS…
 
IT IS ANNOUNCED IMPORTANTLY!…

Erdogan Bozok

OGUZ GÜREL-TURKEY

Dear Cartoonists…

I want to mention to you a name: Hallvard Skauge.
He lives in Norway  
and he is relatively unknown to many. His works published saturdays in  
a leftist daily newspaper, namely Klassekampen and i always enjoyed to  
see his interpretations for daily politic issues. Today one of his  
early drawings about USAs finance crisis and how their actions will  
impact Europa, is awarded as best drawing of the year. Usually when a  
jury decides on a work as ”the very one”, mostly juror’s personal  
backgrounds determines the results and sometimes you end with that  
there were others who were better in your thought, but this time I  
feel the same as the jury. This is very powerful and different  
solution for to well known issue. We have a pool in DQ and try to find  
out what we can do about similarity issues. Sometime we all have same  
instruments and same cliches, but this work shows that always can be  
found a new way of telling things.
The jury who made this decision belongs to a joint federation of union  
of media companies and union for Norwegians journalists and  
Organization for Norwegian Newspaper directors. The aim of award is to  
emphasize art of drawing as a own separate journalistic expression  
form. This is a valuable prize which is given every year artist gets a  
god amount of money too, besides the award.
I attach his drawing which is published in 01. October 2008,
for your judgement.
If you are interesting what he says about drawing in newspapers, etc,  
I could try to translate the interview.
US CAVALARY means old soldiers with horses can say and down on left:  
(a small side-comment for us he always use some small text)
 ”ALL OF THEM WE CHOOSE TO CALL AS CUSTER”
and down right on EUropa sign text is europa.

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Degerli Karikatürcüler…

Yukaridaki calisma Hallvard Skauge adli Norvecli bir cizerin.
Sol gazetelerde cizdigi icin pek bilinmeyen biridir.  
Gecen yil cizdigi bu calismasi Norvec’te
yilin en iyi gazete karikatürü olarak odullendirildi.
Ben de bu calismasini ilk gordugumde sevmistim.
Ayni malzeme ve kliseler olmasina ragmen bu  
konuda finans krizi konusunda, cizilenlerden
kendisini cok ayiran bir calismaydi.
Sigliga duzmeden, derinlik yarattigina inandigim bu  
calismanin odul almasina sevindim,
sizlerle paylasiyorum.
Ustteki baslik: ”ABD Suvarileri”,
Sauge’nin her zaman yaptigi kendi cizgisine
ironi dolu yorumlarindan biri:
”Bunlara biz en iyisi toptan ‘‘Custer” diyelim ve
Europa ile de Avrupa’ya dogru
yola cikildigini anlatiyor…
 
Firuz Kutal

“JENNIFER LOPEZ” PORTRAIT