2nd Salon of Humor of the Paraguaçu in Sao Paulo

REGULATIONS

Dates
Registrations until October 20, 2006. Opening November 15, 2006.

Participation
All the professional or amateur cartoonists can register unpublished works, since they have not been rewarded in another living rooms until the date of closing of the registrations (10-20-2006), and in the case of Comic Strip the character should be unpublished. Each author can register up to three (3) works for category, developed in any technique including them elaborated by computers. For each work correspondent a will own be filled (1) registration record. In the case of shipping for CD, to enclose file with the author's data.
Categories
The theme will be free for the four categories (Cartoon, Political Cartoon,Comic Strip and Caricatures) and with theme specified in Thematic Cartoon.
The format will be the A3 (297X420mm) without frames and mounted on cardboard in the case of the originals. In the category Comic Strip will be accepted three (3) boards with at the most four (4) comic strip in each board (format A3). All the works can be delivered by hand, or they can be sent by e-mail or on CD (digitalized in 300DPI, color mode RGB, in the format JPG (high quality) or PDF obeying the maximum limit of 1,5 MB). The works can be sent through this site in the section Record of Registration.

Cartoon - graphical joke with universal theme and time.

Political Cartoon - good-humored graphical image that criticizes a certain political or social fact of present time.

Comic Strip - graphical humor in sequential panels similar to the published in newspapers.

Caricature - good-humored graphical image with the anatomical alteration of well-known personalities.

Thematic Cartoon - That category will have a specific theme - " AND THE MAN FLIES "

Awards
Three (3) prizes will be granted in each category. In the total of R$ 17.500,00 like this divided:

Five prizes of 1st place, in the value of R$ 2.000,00 each, distributed among the categories;
Five prizes of 2nd place, in the value of R$ 1.000,00 each, distributed among the categories;
Five prizes of 3rd place, in the value of R$ 500,00 each, distributed among the categories;
All the categories will have three Honorable Mentions through diplomas totalized 15 mentions.
The values of the prizes for the international works will be transformed with base into the value of the Commercial Dollar of the date of the award (15/11/2006).

NB.: The award jury the right is reserved of not destining prizes to the categories that don't reach the enough level, transferring for another categories, or creating a reward special of the Living room.

When registering in the Salon, the author automatically transfers the Cession of the copyrights of your work(s) when winning, getting, in a total, universal and definitive way, in all the use modalities and gratuitous title, that starts to integrate the Patrimony of the Salon of Humor of Paraguaçu Paulista from Sao Paulo from Brazil for all the right ends.

In case the award jury verifies some fraud species or plagiarism in an/ or more registered works, it can cancel the reward checked. The works will be disclosed in the site of the Salon after the inauguration of the same and they can be answered up to 10 days after the opening of the Salon, with fitting tests of any irregularity made from the jury.

Other prizes and mentions can be instituted the approach of the Organizing Commission.

Works out of the regulation or considered plagiarisms will be automatically declassified.

Registrations
The works should be correspondents for the following postal address:

Salão de Humor de PAraguaçu Paulista. Avenida Aeroporto S/N - Centro de Convergência Turistica - Jardim Aeroporto - Paraguaçu Paulista - São Paulo - Brasil

CEP 197000-000 - Tel. (+18) 3361-6162, until October 20, 2006 (being worth the postal date).
E-mail: salao@salaodehumordeparaguacu.com

Site: www.salaodehumordeparaguacu.com

The works will be returned until one year after the closing of the event, on March 15, 2008. In case the artist wants to receive its work before, it should remove in the Living room.

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