Sinoplu Diogen 3rd International Cartoon Competition -Turkey 2024

1- The competition is open to amateur and professional artists from all over the world.

2- The subject of the competition is; “No to Nuclear!” was determined as .

Sinop, which takes its name from the beautiful Sinope who made Zeus fall in love with her, is under a nuclear threat these days. Sinope’s younger brother Diogenes is now looking for support for Sinop “against the nuclear power plant” instead of wandering around with a lantern during the day “looking for people”. All over the world. Our expectation from cartoonists is; Nuclear power plants, a technology that will be abandoned in the near future, have economic, ecological, vital, environmental, etc. They reflect their losses on their business…

3- Technical is free in the works that will participate in the competition. The works must have not received any awards in any competition before.

4- Digital certificate will be sent to all participating artists.

5- Participants can send any number of works they want. However, there is no more than one award for a drawing.

6- The cartoons to be sent should be maximum A3 (29.7 cm x 42 cm), 300 dpi resolution and JPG format.

7- The works that will participate in the competition are through e-mail until 15 June 2024; It should be sent to sinopludiyojencartoons@gmail.com

8- With the works, all artists should send their name, postal address, phone, e-mail address, short resume and one photo.

9- The exhibition and the award ceremony of the competition will be held in Sinop-Ayancık on a later date. The travel expenses of the participants will be their own and their accommodation will be covered. The awards of those who cannot attend the ceremony will be sent to their addresses.

10- Awards:

Big Reward: 10,000 TL/Plaque

4 Success Awards: 2,000 TL/Plaque

Special Awards to be given by various institutions: plaque

11- In the selection committee; Ayancık Mayor Hayrettin Kaya (Turkey), sculpture artist Eşref Baş (Turkey), writer Tufan Bilgili (Turkey) and cartoon artists Adnan Taç (Turkey), Altan Özeskici (Turkey), Ares-Aristides Hernandez (Cuba), Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu (Turkey). ), Erhan Yaşar Babalık (Turkey), Fan Lintao (China), Leila Alaiy (Iran), Mehmet Selçuk (Turkey) and Musa Keklik (Turkey).

12- The cartoons participating in the competition are not rewarded or not, by the institutions organizing the competition, exhibition, poster, book, album, e-album, calendar, brochure, etc. It can be used in publications. It can be published on the internet. Apart from this, all publication rights of the works belong to artists.

13- The results of the competition will be announced in the first week of July.

14- Cartoonists participating in the competition are deemed to have accepted the above conditions.

15- Competition; It is organized by Ayancık Municipality and Sinop Writers, Poets and Artists Association…