21st INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SHOW OF LIMEIRA - BRAZIL 2025
Registration deadline:
August 30th All artists who draw freehand and digitally, with free themes, are invited to participate.
Registration is free. Participants must register with works of their own authorship, in JPEG format, minimum size A4 (21 x 29.7cm) up to maximum size A3 (29.7 x 42cm) with 300dpi. Files and registrations sent in other formats or via links will not be accepted. All works must be sent to the email: piuhumor@hotmail.com, with only one email sent by the participating artist, with all works necessarily ORIGINAL AND UNPUBLISHED, and an official registration form duly completed.
The deadline for entries will be August 30, 2025. IF THE REGULATIONS ARE NOT COMPLIED WITH IN FULL, THE DRAWINGS CANNOT BE SELECTED AND AWARDED.
PRIZES
CARICATURE (Win Digital Certificate + Trophy)
CARTOON (Win Digital Certificate + Trophy)
CHARACTER (Win Digital Certificate + Trophy)
COMICS (Win Digital Certificate + Trophy)
NOTE: Up to 3 works may be submitted for each of the 4 (four) categories, totaling a maximum of 12 works sent in a single email per artist.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
1. “Your Power, Your Story” (Women)
2. “Blue is the New Green” (Nature, Water and Environment)
3. “Sorry, I’m Just an AI” (Technology, AI and the Human Future)
4. “System Errors” (Everyday Failures, Error Messages)
5. “Laughing Under Pressure” (Mental Health and Society)
6. “The Illusion of Planet B” (Out-of-this-World: Space, Science Fiction and Escape, Politics)
7. “The Taste Algorithm” (Culture, Trends and Memes)
For the winners in each of the 4 (four) Categories – CARICATURE, CARTOON, CHARACTER and COMICS – We will have Digital Certificates for the 4 (four) award-winning artists selected by our Judging Committee that will be sent by email. The 4 (four) Trophies for each category will be sent by mail. In addition to the winners, we will award 10 (ten) more artists with Honorable Mentions who will receive Digital Certificates sent by email. The selected and awarded artists will be announced and published on our Blog and Facebook, until October 2025.
EXHIBITION
The 100 selected works will be exhibited in our permanent virtual exhibition on the “Editora O PIU” blog – www.jornalopiu.blospot.com.
All registered works will be considered acquired by “Editora O PIU”. The possession, use and any other rights over these works will belong to “Editora O PIU”, which reserves the right to make any use of them as it sees fit. The simple registration constitutes automatic and full agreement of the participant with these Rules.
EXTENDED SUGGESTION OF THEMES FOR CREATING WORKS
1. “Your Power, Your Story” (Women) From global movements for gender equity and representation, this theme invites artists to reflect on the evolution of women’s power, struggles, and triumphs. It’s about reclaiming narratives — with intelligence and grace. “Your Side of the Story” Highlights women’s voices, power, and everyday resistance. Focus: Gender equality, motherhood, and everyday feminine genius.
2. “Blue is the New Green” (Nature, Water, and the Environment) Focuses on the planet’s water crisis, rising sea levels, pollution, and climate change. The humor here can be a powerful, playful yet urgent paradox. “The Last Drop” Water shortages, floods, seas of plastic, nature’s cry for help. Focus: Environmental humor and ecological solutions.
3. “Sorry, I’m just an AI” (Technology, AI and the Human Future) From deepfakes to ChatGPT and robot dogs dancing on YouTube, humanity is asking itself: what makes us human when machines start doing everything?
“404: Humanity Not Found” The failure of modern life, AI, disconnection, technological dependence. Focus: Social media addiction, absurd algorithms, lost empathy and artificial intelligence overcoming common sense.
4. “System Errors” We live surrounded by failures — some technological, some human, many social. They are useless notifications, emotional crashes, forgotten passwords, behavioral bugs, ideas that don’t load and connections that drop… with or without Wi-Fi. In the midst of so many systems — operational, institutional, mental — humor can be the antivirus or the revealing glitch itself. Focus: Everyday failures, error messages, modern crashes and the irony of living in a world that demands constant performance… even when the system fails. What’s left when everything crashes? Laughing may be the only command that still works.
5. “Laughing Under Pressure” (Mental Health and Society)
The post-pandemic world has brought mental health into the spotlight. This theme invites reflections on Burnout, therapeutic culture, with lightness and depth. “Laughing During the Breakdown” Stress, therapy, emotional survival and the irony of modern sanity. Focus: Self-help trends, anxiety at work, therapy clichés and silent struggles.
6. “The Illusion of Planet B” (Out-of-this-World: Space, Science Fiction & Escape, Politics)Whether it’s billionaires and politicians running for space or fantasies of starting over on Mars, this theme satirizes humanity’s desire to escape our problems by looking up instead of inward, and the mismanagement of politicians to harmonize life under their rule. “Oops, I Voted Again” Democracy, misinformation, and the circus of politics. Focus: Political nonsense, populism, Fake News, manipulation, and what happens when the clown wins.
7. “The Taste Algorithm” (Culture, Trends, and Meme Fixation)What is art, what is content, and what is just a TikTok trend? “Common Sense Has Abandoned the Group Chat” Focus: Artists can play with the blurry lines between high and low culture, real and fake, fast and timeless.
APPLICATION FORM
01 – First name:
02 – Last name:
03 – Date of birth (day/month/year):
04 – Street number and address:
05 – Neighborhood:
06 – City:
07 – State (or province, region):
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10 – E-mail:
11 – Number of entries
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12 – Data da inscrição/ Application date: