🇮🇳 The organizers of the 3rd Pune International Cartoon Festival 2026 have officially announced the list of participating artists for the upcoming edition, reflecting a strong and diverse international presence.
👥 A total of 151 artists took part in this edition, representing various countries across the globe. Notably, 62 artists participated from various Indian States, while 69 artists came from the state of Maharashtra, reflecting strong local engagement alongside global presence.
🎉 The festival is being organized in celebration of World Cartoonists Day (May 5), bringing together cartoonists who explore global themes such as war, inflation, environment, education, and social and political issues through satire and visual storytelling.
🎭 Participating International Cartoonists:
🇦🇷 ARGENTINA
Alberto Jose Femia
Julián Gabriel
🇦🇲 ARMENIA
Mirtad Gazazian
🇦🇹 AUSTRIA
Hule Hanusic
🇦🇿 AZERBAIJAN
Seyran Caferli
🇧🇪 BELGIUM
Luc Descheemaeker
🇧🇷 BRAZIL
Ana Paula Caldas
Brum
Carlos Amorim
Desenhista Affonso
Evaldo
Luciano Meskyta
Luciano Santos Duarte
José Adnael Silva
🇧🇬 BULGARIA
Aleksandar Simov
Maya Tcholakova
Valentin Georgiev
Zhivko Tenev
🇨🇳 CHINA
Ba Bilig
Chen Shang Yi
Chengkuan Wang
Dai Peicheng
Double Lee
Fan Lintao
Feng Guang
Feng Youbin
Guo Yihui
He Jianwei
He Jing
Hou Lu
Hou Shiming
Huang Mingke
Huang Qigong
Jiang Yuexin
Jing Shan Lee
Kuang Zuhai
Lan Bo
Li Jichuan
Li Kui Jun
Li Zhijun
Li Zhi Long
Liu Qiang
Liu Xihua
Lu Nan
Peili Gu
Shen Hong Li
Sun Baoxin
Sun Shen Ying
Wang Da Peng
Wang Xiaoning
Wang Xuewei
Wang Yiyang
Wang Zhen
Wenran Sun
Xiaoqiang Hou
Xinxin Yu
Xu Lin
Yang Xiaobo
Yang Yizuo
Yaoyuefa
Yirun Wang
Yu Shixin
Zhang Pengfei
Zhao Yunsheng
Zhu Tong
Zhu Zizun
🇨🇴 COLOMBIA
Raul Zuleta
🇭🇷 CROATIA
Ivan Grahovec
Slobodan Butir
🇨🇺 CUBA
Javier Cubero Torres
Jorge Sánchez Armas
José Zorrilla Villalón
Luis Enrique
Daydier Bernal Calvo
🇪🇬 EGYPT
Dina Abdelgawad Shosha
Rabab Ibrahim
Wesam Khalil
🇬🇧 UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
Steffen Jahsnowski
Talimonov Alexei
Mark Winter
🇫🇷 FRANCE
Gerald Peigneux
🇩🇪 GERMANY
Hossein Eskandery
🇭🇺 HUNGARY
Gergely Bacsa
🇮🇩 INDONESIA
Affan Siregar
Makmun
Supriyanto
Atmaja Septa Miyosa
🇮🇶 IRAQ
Jabar Saber
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Boris Erenburg
🇮🇹 ITALY
Friedrich Tasser
Zaza Leonardo
🇰🇪 KENYA
Jairus Ndichu
Nitin Bangale
🇽🇰 KOSOVO
Imri Musliu
🇰🇿 KAZAKHSTAN
Ansa Mustafa
🇱🇹 LITHUANIA
Vladimiras Beresniovas
🇲🇽 MEXICO
Adrian Alejandre
🇲🇦 MOROCCO
Aziz Bouzekri
Jamal Sahif
🇳🇬 NIGERIA
Femi Arowolo
🇳🇴 NORWAY
Firuz Kutal
🇵🇱 POLAND
Cebul Henryk
Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek
Michal Graczyk
Tomasz Rogowski
🇵🇹 PORTUGAL
Zez Vaz
🇷🇴 ROMANIA
Bartis Silviu
Cornel-Marin Chiorean
Doru Axinte
Horia Crișan
Lupu Marian
🇷🇺 RUSSIA
Andrey Selivanov
Fedor Alekseev
Igor Smirnov
Nikolay Popov
Roman Peshkov
Tarasenko Valeri
Yury Kosarev
Zlatkovsky
🇷🇸 SERBIA
Dusan Smiljanic
Goran Celicanin
Mica Miloradovic
🇸🇰 SLOVAKIA
Vladimír Pavlík
🇪🇸 SPAIN
Arturo Molero
Juan Gabriel Benavides
🇸🇪 SWEDEN
Jaime Huerta
🇸🇾 SYRIA
Alkareem Fatoon
Raed Khalil
Taher Saoud
🇹🇷 TURKEY
Abdullah Torun
Edakaraabdurrahmanoğlu
Erdogan Başol
İsmail Kar
Mehmet Zeber
Muammer Kotbaş
Mustafa Yıldız
Oguz Gurel
Seyit Saatçi
🇺🇦 UKRAINE
Eugene Grigoriev
Oleh Smal
🇺🇸 USA
JC Barber
Kaladhar Bapu
🇺🇿 UZBEKISTAN
Makhmudjon Eshonkulov
Muzaffar Yulchiboev
🇮🇳 Participating Indian Cartoonists (Other States):
1. Amogh Vaze – Goa – India
2. Anand Gudi – India
3. Anil Shah – Gujarat – India
4. Arun Kumar – Karnataka – India
5. Attaluri – Hyderabad – India
6. B V Panduranga Rao – Bangalore – India
8. Bala Subrahmanyam – Andhra Pradesh – India
9. BVS Prasad – Telangana – India
10. Chandra Kodi – India
11. Debashis Singh – Odisha – India
12. Deepak Ghadshi – India
13. Dr. Kishor Meena – Delhi – India
14. Dr. Smitha Bhandare Kamat – Goa – India
15. E Suresh – Delhi – India
16. Guntreddi Bhaskara Rao – India
17. Gurudatta NS – Karnataka – India
18. Harishchandra Shetty – Karnataka – India
19. Jairaj TG – Kerala – India
20. James Vaz – Karnataka – India
21. Jayaraj Vellur – India
22. Jees Paul – Kerala – India
23. Jyothish Kumar – Kerala – India
24. Kantesh Badiger – Karnataka – India
25. Krishna Sri – Andhra Pradesh – India
26. Ln Rao – India
27. Malatesh Garadimani – Karnataka – India
28. Manoj Chopra – Jammu & Kashmir – India
29. Manoj Sinha – Delhi – India
30. MJS Krishna – India
31. Moturi Srinivasa Rao – Andhra Pradesh – India
32. Namadev Kagadagar – Karnataka – India
33. Naveen Vattappara – Kerala – India
34. N V Ramana Murthy – Andhra Pradesh – India
35. Pramod Stephen – Karnataka – India
36. Vara Prasad Siddhavaram – India
37. Rajesh Manjaguni – Karnataka – India
38. Raghupathi NS – India
39. Ramesh Udegol – India
40. Ranganath V Shet – Karnataka – India
41. Raviraja Halambi – India
42. Vikram Kumar Nayak – Delhi – India
43. RD – India
44. Rishi Chakraborty – West Bengal – India
45. S Dayananda – India
46. S Suresh – Karnataka – India
47. Sambangi C N – Karnataka – India
48. Sekhar Rao Munduru – Odisha – India
49. Sekhar Vangala – Andhra Pradesh – India
50. Yogish Shettigar – Telangana – India
51. Shibu Cheriapadath – Kerala – India
52. Shivan – Karnataka – India
53. Shrutee Bhave – India
54. Sridhar Radhakrishnan – Bengaluru – India
55. Subham Bhattacharjee – West Bengal – India
56. Sunil Babu – Andhra Pradesh – India
57. SV Ramana – Hyderabad – India
58. Swathi Jaikumar – India
59. Thanneeru Sasi – Andhra Pradesh – India
60. Thota Rajendrababu – Visakhapatnam – India
61. Yathish Shettigar – Karnataka – India
62. Jagadish Kunte - Karnataka - India
🇮🇳 Cartoonists from Maharashtra:
1. S. D. Phadnis - India - Maharashtra
2. Vaijnath Dulange - India - Maharashtra
3. Prabhakar Zalke - India - Maharashtra
4. Ravindra Rane - India - Maharashtra
5. Sharad Mahajan - India- Maharashtra
6. Amit Papal - India - Maharashtra
7. Prabhakar Dighewar - India - Maharashtra
8. Avinash Date - India - Maharashtra
9. Vijaykumar B. Musale - India - Maharashtra
10. Ram Mandurke - India - Maharashtra
11. Ravindrasingh A. Patil - India - Maharashtra
12. Tushar Kurne - India - Maharashtra
13. Dr. Girish C. Patil - India Maharashtra
14. Arvind Deshpande -India - Maharashtra
15. Umesh Charole - India - Maharashtra
16. Aneesh Date - India - Maharashtra
17. Siddhesh Deodhar - India - Maharashtra
18. Yogesh Chavan - India - Maharashtra
19. Amogha Relekar - India - Maharashtra
20. Ashok Bulbule - India - Maharashtra
21. Rahul Save - India - Maharashtra
22. Suresh Raut - India - Maharashtra
23. Suresh Bhagwat - India - Maharashtra
24. Rushikesh Upalavikar - India - Maharashtra
25. Vishal Kuyate - India - Maharashtra
26. Suhas Palimkar - India - Maharashtra
27. Dipak Mahale - India - Maharashtra
28. Sumant Biwalkar - India Maharashtra
29. Dinesh Dhangawhal - India - Maharashtra
30. Rahul Bawane - India - Maharashtra
31. Ravish Dhanawade - India -Maharashtra
32. Lahu Kale - India - Maharashtra
33. Arvind Gadekar - India - Maharashtra
34. Gaurav Sarjerao - India - Maharashtra
35. Vinod Gonge - India - Maharashtra
36. Aditya Paradkar - India - Maharashtra
37. Gajanan Ghongde - India - Maharashtra
38. Kshitij Khatavkar - India - Maharashtra
39. Tukaram Katekar - India Maharashtra
40. Mitali Kapure -India- Maharashtra
41. Rajiv Gaikwad - India - Maharashtra
42. Shripad Palkar - India - Maharashtra
43. Gaurav Mastud - India Maharashtra
44. Ashutosh Wale - India - Maharashtra
45. Nidhi Puniyani - India - Maharashtra
46. Someshwar Gajmal - India - Maharashtra
47. Ashish Vikhar - India - Maharashtra
48. Siddharth Nagthankar India Maharashtra
49. Vijay Parulekar - India - Maharashtra
50. Amol Sawant - India - Maharashtra
51. Vijay Nangare - India - Maharashtra
52. Gaurav Panchal - India - Maharashtra
53. Bhatu Bagale - India - Maharashtra
54. Kishor Shitole - India - Maharashtra
55. Nitin Bangale -India- Maharashtra
56. Rajiv Kulkani - India - Maharashtra
57. Unmesh Shahane - India - Maharashtra
58. Mangesh Khollam - India - Maharashtra
59. Shubham Jinde - India - Maharashtra
60. Uday Mohite - India - Maharashtra
61. Dhanraj Garad - India - Maharashtra
62. Guru Khilare -India - Maharashtra
63. Gautam Diwar - India - Maharashtra
64. Rohit Kabade - India - Maharashtra
65. Shaunak Samvatsar - India - Maharashtra
66. Niraj Sabnis - India - Maharashtra
67. Uttam ghosh - India - Maharashtra
68. Nirmiti Saindane - India - Maharashtra
69. Omkar Bag
🖼️ The selected artworks will be featured during the festival, offering audiences an engaging artistic experience that underlines the power of cartoon art as a universal language of expression.