THE TOPIC OF THE THIRD
INTERNATIONAL
 DON QUICHOTTE
 CARTOON CONTEST IS
 “WORLD LANGUAGES”


In our world today 6800 languages are spoken in over 200 countries.
 Even in the countries having the same language exist dialects.
 Consequently each country adds its own social values to the language and makes it
 more colorful. On the other hand, in the latest 500 years about 750
 languages are disappeared forever. According to the linguists, every 15
 days a language is disappearing on the earth. One of the crucial reasons
 for this devastation is colonialism for sure.
There is a dialogue among languages as well. For example Latin lies at
 the root of many languages. In connecting people language plays an
 important role; while doing so it can build borders and remove them as
 well. Chinese is the most widespread language in the world. Second comes
 Spanish. English is the state language of 52 countries as you can
 surmise.
Even if we cannot imagine a positive religious dialogue we can talk
 about a worldwide linguistic dialogue which is much more attractive and
 active. The aim of our contest is to convey this rich variety through
 cartoons as much as possible. The most succesful cartoonists in reflecting
 the linguistic dialogue will be rewarded by the worldwide top 15 jury
 of cartoonists whose members are also in the “Don Quichotte Cartoon
 Committee”.

THE RULES OF COMPETITION:
1) With participation in competition is possible only by Internet.
donquichotte@donquichotte.at
 donquichotte@gmx.net
2) The participating work may have been published neither with another
 competition presented nor on any way. With an offence, the deprivation
 of the achieved prices is the result.
3) The designs are to be drawn in A3-Size to deliver in 300 dpi
 dissolution and in JPEG format. They know both and black-and-white, and to be
 colored, the colored representation is exactly the same as the
 color technical treatment of the work is incumbent on not a containment.     
                   
4) The sent in caricatures are issued first on the web pages of the
 “Don Quichotte”
under the column “Today”. Thus the work those is excluded the
 regulation to
contradict, promptly from the competition. Thus in the past the pretty
 often experienced unauthorized counterfeit, of a work is avoided.     
                                                                     
                                                                     
  5) The closing date of the competition is 31 July 2008.             
6) The jury,
 which consists from international well-known cartoonists, evaluates the
 forwarded art-works in September. Results of this evaluation and the
 award-winning art-works will be published on 1st October 2008.             
                                                     
7) The award of the prize will take place in the context of the opening
 of the exhibition in October in Esslingen (place and date of this
 meeting are
communicated  at a later time).

THE PRIZES:
- First Prize: $ 1000
- Second Prize: $ 750
- Third Prize: $ 500
- Special Prize of “Necati Abacı”
- Mentions

JURY:
- Agim Sulaj (Italy)
- Ares (Cuba)
- Benjamin Heine (Belgium)
- Carlos Brito (France)
- Carlos Latuff (Brazil)
- David Baldinger (USA)
- Erdoğan Karayel (Germany)
- Firuz Kutal (Norway)
- Hasan Fazlic (Bosnia&Herzegovina)
- Hicabi Demirci (Turkey)
- Julian Pena Pai (Romania)
- Marcin Bondarowicz (Poland)
- Marlene Pohle (Germany)
- Massoud Shojai (Iran)
- Seyran Caferli (Azerbaijan)
- Stephan Stötzler (Germany)

"worldlanguages-competition rules":
http://www.donquichotte.at/img/worldlanguages-competitionrules.pdf