The 17th International Cartoon Festival, dedicated to the New Year 2026.

Topic:

A. Winter Fun.

B. The Horse – the Symbol of 2026.

C. New Year's Theme

Submissions from professional and amateur artists are accepted.

Children's works (+6) are accepted (the exhibition will feature a children's section).

Send your work by email to: n-chern@bk.ru

Exhibition Curator: Nikolay Chernyshev, Director of the Caricature Museum,

President of the Ural Cartoonists' Club "Cranberry", Ozersk n-chern@bk.ru

Participants will receive an electronic certificate and a booklet (brochure).

Organizing Committee and Jury of the Competition:

- Russian Academy of Arts, Igor Alekseevich Smirnov, project curator, cartoonist, Moscow. - Humor magazine "Krasnaya Burda", Vladimir Maurin, journalist, Yekaterinburg.

- Ural Cartoonists' Club "Cranberry", Sergey Sokolov, cartoonist, Snezhinsk.

- Humor magazine "Krasnaya Burda", Vladimir Loginov, journalist, Yekaterinburg.

- Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Mayak", Olga Aksenova, artist and designer, Ozersk.

- Ural Cartoonists' Club "Cranberry", Mikhail Chernyshev, cartoonist, Snezhinsk.

Contest Organizing Committee:

- develops the Competition Regulations,

- accepts entries,

- registers Competition participants,

- forms the Jury, which evaluates the entries and determines the winners,

- organizes the Competition, the exhibition of the best works, and the awards ceremony.

Contest Media Partners:

- Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper, Moscow.

- Yuzhnouralskaya Panorama newspaper, Chelyabinsk.

- Krasnaya Burda humor magazine, Yekaterinburg.

- Snezhinsk Segodnya newspaper, Snezhinsk.

- Vestnik Mayaka newspaper, Ozersk.

- Metro newspaper, Snezhinsk.

- CARTUNION International Cartoonists' Forum https://www.cartoonblues.com/forum/

Contest Dates.

Submission deadline: December 10, 2025.

The winners will be announced on December 25, 2025.

Contest Procedure.

The number of drawings accepted for consideration by one participant is unlimited.

Contest winners will be awarded honorary diplomas.

Special art prizes will be awarded from the Cranberry Club cartoon museum.

Technical Requirements:

Competition entries must be submitted in A4 format.

Drawing techniques are free.

Collages and computer graphics are accepted.

An email containing a competition entry sent to n-chern@bk.ru constitutes an application for participation in the Competition.

Competition entries must be submitted electronically in JPG format, no larger than 3 MB,

with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

Attention!

Each entry must be signed!

(Include the following in the file: last name, first name, country, category!!! = Nikolay Chernyshev — Russia — A)

Each email must include brief information about the entry's author: last name, first name, age, telephone number, postal and email (contact) address, photo (caricature), and a short CV.

Evaluation Criteria:

- relevance to the theme,

- original approach to the theme, creative individuality,

- execution technique.

Contest Terms and Conditions:

· Copyright infringement is prohibited.

· Correspondence with authors is available at: n-chern@bk.ru

· In case of violation of the Contest Terms and Conditions, cartoons will be disqualified from the competition without explanation.

· Participants' cartoons may be used by the contest organizers for exhibitions,

publications in the media, promotion of cartoon contests, and the website.

· Submission of works to the contest constitutes the author's agreement to these terms and conditions.