In a festive tribute to art and memory, the official catalog of the 5th Ding Cong International Cartoon & Illustration Exhibition has been released in Shanghai, China, held this year under the theme: the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, seen through the eyes of cartoonists from across the globe.
🌿 Intangible cultural heritage doesn’t reside in museums or monuments, it lives in folk tales, traditional crafts, songs, and daily rituals, preserving it is both an artistic and moral responsibility, by capturing it through cartoon and visual storytelling, artists resist forgetting and celebrate the essence of human identity in its most authentic form.
📘 The freshly published official catalog offers a rich visual anthology of selected and awarded works, it documents how cartoonists revisit and reinterpret traditional cultural elements through satire, symbolism, and deeply emotional imagery.
🖌️ The exhibited works spanned cartoon, illustration, and digital art, they explored themes such as traditional crafts, folklore, oral storytelling, celebratory customs, and local beliefs, all rendered in visually striking and symbolic styles that connect heritage with modern expression.
🌍 Don’t miss the chance to explore this exceptional catalog on Egypt Cartoon Platform, where creativity narrates timeless stories, and art immortalizes the human heritage in vibrant visual form.