🧩 Organized by the Ural Cartoonists' Club "Cranberry" and the Caricature Museum, Russia.
🧊 Topics:
1️⃣ Winter Fun ❄️
2️⃣ The Horse – the Symbol of 2026 🐎
3️⃣ New Year’s Theme 🎄
👩🎨 Participation:
- Open to both professional and amateur artists from all over the world.
- Children’s artworks (+6) are also accepted and will be displayed in a special children’s section.
📧 Send your works to:
n-chern@bk.ru
🗓️ Important Dates:
📬 Submission deadline: December 10, 2025.
🏆 Winners announced: December 25, 2025.
📜 Awards & Recognition:
🏅 Participants will receive an electronic certificate and a festival booklet (brochure).
🎁 Special art prizes will be awarded from the Cranberry Club Cartoon Museum.
📦 Technical Requirements:
- Format: A4.
- Technique: Free (including collage & digital art).
- File: JPG, max 3 MB, resolution 300 dpi.
- Each entry must include: Name – Country – Category: 👉 Example: Nikolay Chernyshev — Russia — A
📛 Every email should also include:
· Full name, age, contact info (phone, email, postal address), artist photo or caricature, and a short CV.
⚠️ Terms & Conditions:
· Copyright infringement is prohibited.
· Correspondence: 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.
📰 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/
⚖️ Organizing Committee & Jury:
- 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.
👔 Exhibition Curator:
Nikolay Chernyshev – Director of the Caricature Museum, President of the Ural Cartoonists’ Club "Cranberry", Ozersk.
📩 n-chern@bk.ru
🖌️ Join the 17th International Cartoon Festival and let your creativity shine worldwide!