Dear friends cartoonists,
Your interest for the contest this year overcome our expectations!
453 cartoonists from 69 countries around the world have applied with over 1280 cartoons for entering the 40.World Gallery of Cartoons - Skopje 2012!
The competition was very tough. The first selection was made by the representatives from OSTEN and the nominated Cartoonist of the Year 2010 in Macedonia -Dragan Popovski.
They selected 261 cartoonists and 296 cartoons that will go to the next level, where the international jury* will take over further selection.
They will probably have even harder assignment than those involved in the first selection..
* The international jury consist of:
MIDHAT AJANOVIC – AJAN, Sweden (President)
http://www.ajan.se/ ANA von REBERUR, Argentina (member)
http://www.anavonrebeur.com.ar/ RUDY GAYSENSE, Belgium (member)
http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/contact_ENG.html LENG MU, China (member)
http://www.lengmu.com/ MICE JANKULOVSKI, Macedonia (member)
http://www.osten.com.mkThose who have applied with digital images of their works, please provide your original works on the address below.
Stay in touch... we'll keep you informed about the results of the jury's selection and the awards' winners.
With best regards,
OSTEN - art on paper
World Gallery of Cartoons
8 Udarna Brigada 2, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
T +389 2 3213665
M +389 71 225950
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