8th Caratinga International
Comedy Exhibition - 2006

Regulation:
1 - Dates
The 8 th Caratinga International Exhibition of Comedy will be carried out according to the following schedule:
Enrollments until September 25th/2006
Opening and Awards in October 10th/2006

2 - Participation
All professional and amateur cartoonists will be allowed to submit the material of comedy unpublished and not awarded at any other contest until the opening date ( 10/10/2006 ) the material of comedy.
Every author will be allowed to submit one or two works per category.
Works performed at any technique, will be accepted.

3 - Categories
Cartoon, political cartoon, caricature and strip.
Free subject, at the A3-297 X 420 mm format with no frames and attached to cardboard in order to protect it.
In the category Strips, one trough four paged comedy-themed boards will be accepted.
Categories definitions:
Cartoon: Graphic joke written in universal and timeless themes
Political cartoon: Graphic representation of a journalistic subject of nowadays
Caricature: Graphic deformation of a recognizable famous person

4 - The awarding
Eight prizes total R$ 10,000.00 will be given, divided into:
a) three 1st place prizes of R$ 2,000.00 each, distributed to the categories;
b) three 2nd place prizes of R$ 1,000.00 each, distributed to the political cartoon, cartoon, caricature categories.
Special awarding: R$ 1.000, 00 for first place in thematic caricature of the cartoonist / writer Ziraldo Alves Pinto ( www.ziraldo.com.br & www.meninomaluquinho.com.br )
There will be given 5 honorable mention by the judging commission in each category

Obs.- The awarding jury has got the right of not awarding those categories which don't reach an enough level, replacing the works to another category or create special prize for the event. There will be a selection jury and an awarding jury composed of people specialized for this area. The prizes will be acquisitive for Caratinga 's City Hall.

In case of the awarding jury noticing any kind of fraud or paganism at one or more enrolled works, it'll be possible the calling off of the given prize. The awarded works will be announced at the event's website right after the inauguration of it and they'll be possibly denied at until one week after the event's opening, trough appropriate evidences of any irregularity made without the knowledge of the jury.

Other prizes and mentions will be possibly instituted, according to Organization Committee
The winner works will be property of the exhibition lot.

5 - Enrollments
The works must be sent to the following
address:
Salao Internacional de Humor de CaratingaRua Prof. Colombo Etienne Arreguy, 205 – CEP 35.300-172
Caratinga – Minas Gerias – Brazil
Fax/phone: 55 (33) 3321.4900

Until September 10 th, 2006 (posting date).
ATTENTION / DEVOLUTION:
The works will be returned until one year after the end of the event, October 22nd, 2006 just to the artist who send an envelope properly sealed with the work.
They’ll be sent back until one year after the end of the event, October 16th, 2006. If the artist wants to get his work before that, must take it at Centro National de Humor in Caratinga.

In addition to the enrollment record, there must be the following information in the back of each work:
Category which the author enrolled for, full name of the author, artistic name, complete address, phone number, e-mail, ID number bank data. They may also send (not mandatory, though), summarized résumé and photo for tallying up in the researching database of the event.