With a total 1781 submissions from 76 countries we think our first international cartoon competition was a huge success! Out of all these submissions we made a shortlist of 200 cartoons; on March 5, this shortlist was presented to a professional jury, tasked with the difficult job to select the cartoons that will be featured in the upcoming exhibition ‘The Art of Resistance’ and to determine the winners.

The jury consisted of Hajo, a well-known Dutch cartoonist, Saskia van Loenen, chairperson of Pers & Prent (a foundation promoting political cartoons and organizer of the yearly Dutch cartoon award Inktspotprijs) and Michiel van Hattem, president of vfonds, a Dutch NGO with a focus on peace.

Together, they selected 57 cartoons, including 9 honorable mentions and 3 winners. Today, we announced the winners at the Freedom Festival in Flushing, the Netherlands.

 

First Prize

Pete Kreiner - Australia

 

Second Prize 

 Oguz Demir - Turkey

 

Third Prize

Bruce Mackinnon - Canada

 

Honorable Mentions

Carlos David Fuentes - Cuba

 

Manuel Arriaga - Spain

 

Arash Shayesteh - Iran

 

Mary Zins - United States

 

Saeed Sadeghi - Iran

 

Mello - Brazil

 

Denny Fisher - Brazil

 

Alexander Dubovsky - Ukraine

 

Vladimír Pavlík - Slovakia

 

 

Official Selection

Amorim - Brazil

 

Emad Hajjaj - Jordan

 

Aidarbek Gazizov - Kazakhstan

 

Katarzyna Kuzior - Poland

 

Aleksei Kivokurtsev - Russia

 

Khaled Al Jaberi - United Arab Emirates

   

Konstantin Kazanchev - Ukraine

 

Liu Qiang - China

 

Agim Sulaj - Italy

  

Mahmoud Salameh - Australia

 

Aleksandr Kovtun - Ukraine

 

Andrea Pecchia - Italy

 

Manny Avetisyan - United States

 

Falco - Cuba

 

Daryl Cagle - United States

 

Mohsen Asadi - Iran

 

Marilena Nardi - Italy

 

Grzegorz Szumowski - Poland

 

Hilal Özcan - Turkey

BIZ - France

Hicabi Demirci - Turkey

 

Assunta Toti Buratti - Italy

 

Vjekoslav Bojat - Montenegro

 

Umpo - Thailand

 

Yusef Alimohammadi - Iran

 

Dejan Borkovic - Serbia

 

Angel Boligan - Mexico

 

Ivailo Tsvetkov - Bulgaria

 

Schlorian - Switzerland

 

Sylvain Pongi - France

 

Paco - Italy

 

Sergii Riabokon - Ukraine

 

Menekse Cam - Turkey

 

Shahram Rezaei - Iran

 

Mahmood Nazari - Iran

 

Willem Rasing - The Netherlands

 

 Patrick Grillot - France

 

José Antonio Rodríguez García - Mexico

 

Simona Vilchez - Peru

 

Jorge Mateus - Portugal

 

Rice Araujo - Brazil

 

Joanna Kołodzińska - Poland

 

Nouri Najafi - Iran

 

MORO - Cuba

 

Osama Hajjaj - Jordan

 

Student Competition

 

In March, we also launched a competition for high school and college students in Zeeland (a province in the south of the Netherlands), challenging students to create their own cartoons about resistance. CM editor and cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards gave a series of workshops to explain the power of cartoons and show students how to make a good cartoon. We received close to 200 student submissions. Here we present the winners and the official selection:

First Prize

Kinsky Sibbald (15 yrs) - Scheldemond college

 

Second Prize

Jennifer Huynh (15 yrs) - Pontes Pieter Zeeman

 

Third Prize

Fee Groeneveld (15 yrs) - Scheldemond college

 

Official Selection

Karin Fens (15 yrs) - SSG de Rede

 

Nanne van den Heuvel (12 yrs) - Pontes Goese Lyceum

 

Floris van de Ven 14 yrs - CSW van de Perre

 

Kaylynn Tierie (17 yrs) - Ponts Pieter Zeeman

 

Mette-Lola (13 yrs) - CSW van de Perre

 

Rian Driedijk (15 yrs) - Pontes Goese Lyceum

 

Elvira Quaak (14 yrs) - CSW van de Perre

 

ZoIm Essaber (13 yrs) - Pontes Goese Lyceum

 

Madeira van den Berg (14 yrs) - Scheldemond college

 

Aileen van den Heuvel (13 yrs) - Scheldemond college



Saskia Doeswijk (16 yrs) - Pontes Pieter Zeeman

 

Hanne Jacobs (13 yrs) - Pontes Goese lyceum

 

Mhd. Yousef Attar 16 (yrs) - Scheldemond college

 

Jayne Rijke (15 yrs)  - Scheldemond college

 

Indy de Neef (12 yrs) - Pontes Goes Lyceum

 

The entire selection of both student and professional cartoons was on display in an open-air exhibition at the Freedom Festival on May 5th. On May 24, the award ceremony and opening of the official exhibition will take place at the main library in Middelburg, the Netherlands.