🫒 The Organizing Committee of the 15th International Cartoon Contest 2026, organized as part of the 25th International Olive Festival, has announced the official list of participating artists from around the world. This year's edition has attracted 148 cartoonists from 44 countries, who submitted a total of 586 cartoons, including 317 works in the Olive Theme Section and 269 works in the Free Theme Section.
👥 List of participants:
ABD – USA
Huey Nguyenhuu
ALMANYA – GERMANY
Assad Bina Khahi
Helmut Jacek
Steffen Jahsnowski
ARJANTİN – ARGENTINA
Fernando Sosa
BELÇİKA – BELGIUM
Bossens Philippe
Luc Vernimmen
Rouhollah Zamzameh Rola
BEYAZ RUSYA – BELARUS
Oleg Gutsol
BİRLEŞİK ARAP EMİRLİKLERİ – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Rolando L. Antonio jr
BİRLEŞİK KRALLIK – UNITED KINGDOM
Ayhan Alkan
BREZİLYA – BRAZIL
Elcio D. R. Amorim Edra
Ronaldo Cunha Dias
BULGARİSTAN – BULGARIA
Valentin Georgiev
Zidarov Veselin
ÇEK – CZECH REPUBLIC
Roman Kubec
ÇİN – CHINA
Jingyan Qi
Kuang Zuhai
Liu Qia Lian
Liu Qiang
Xu Lin
Wei Li
Yong Tao
Yu Shixin
Zhao Yun Sheng
ENDONEZYA – INDONESIA
Agus Harsant
Edi Dharma
ESTONYA – ESTONIA
Roman Matkiewicz
FRANSA – FRANCE
Gerald Peigneux
GUATEMALA – GUATEMALA
Evelyn Soraya De Paz Samayoa
HIRVATİSTAN – CROATIA
Marko Ivić
Radko Maricic
Slobodan Butir
HOLLANDA – HOLLAND
Anneke van Steijn
Peter Niuwendijik
Virgil Smits
İRAN – IRAN
Ali Miraee
Shahram Yaghoubi Majd
İSPANYA – SPAIN
David Vela
Juli Sanchis Aguado
Manuel Arriaga
İTALYA – ITALY
Alessandro Gatto
Alias Marzia Grossi
Athos Careghi
JAPONYA – JAPAN
Yu Kimura
Yuji Komiya
KANADA – CANADA
Joseph G. Laquerre
KARADAĞ – MONTENEGRO
Luka Lagator
KIBRIS – CYPRUS
Christakis Skoufaris
Igor Varchenko
Natalia Varchenko
KOSOVA – KOSOVO
Imri Musliu
KUZEY KIBRIS – NORTH CYPRUS
Arif Albayrak
Asal Sharafyektai
Buse Çelikdal
Mustafa C. Azizoğlu
KUZEY MAKEDONYA – NORTH MACEDONIA
Keti Radevska
Tode Risto Blazevski
KÜBA – CUBA
Javier Cubero Torres
Pedro José Astrain Quintáns
LÜKSEMBURG – LUXEMBOURG
Pol Leurs
MACARİSTAN – HUNGARY
Gergely Bacsa
Mihaly Kos
MEKSİKA – MEXICO
Arturo Rosas
MISIR – EGYPT
Mohamed Amin Hassan El Shorbagy
NORVEÇ – NORWAY
Firuz Kutal
ÖZBEKİSTAN – UZBEKİSTAN
Farrux Teshaev
Husan Sodiqov
Makhmud Eshonkulov
POLONYA – POLAND
Henryk Cebula
Katarzyna Beck
Tadeusz Krotos
Tomasz Rogowsky
ROMANYA – ROMANIA
Bartis Silviu
Boboc Mihai Gabriel
Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu
Chiorean Cornel – Marin
Constantin Pavel
Cornel Margin
Liviu Stanila
Sergiu Farcasanu
RUSYA – RUSSIA
Mikhail Zlatkovsky
Victor Skopintsev
Vladimir Tyurin
SIRBİSTAN – SERBIA
Goran Celicanin
Jugoslav Vlahović
Mileta Miloradovic
Miroslav Jakovljev
Sava Babic
Spiro Radulovic
Toso Borković
Vaso Krcmar
SLOVAKYA – SLOVAKIA
Darina Klickova
František Bojničan
SLOVENYA – SLOVENIA
Radko Oketic
SRİ LANKA – SRI LANKA
Sumindra Sewvandi Wanniarachchi
TÜRKİYE – TURKEY
Ahmet Özalp
Aşkın Ayrancıoğlu
Aziz Yavuzdoğan
Bülent Okutan
Cemil Safitürk
Deniz İlker Kuruoğlu
Durmuş Evcüman
Elsin Altın
Esmer Hamza
Fahri Eyican
Fahriye Çıtaklı
Fatih Aksular
Feride Özşakacı
Fırat Saraç
Gürol Ustaömeroğlu
Hasan Ceylan
Hatice Çelenk
Hayrettin Oturgan
İbrahim Hilmi Acar
Kemal Özyurt
Kürşat Zaman
Lütfü Çakın
Mehmed Dağlı
Mehmet Kahraman
Mehmet Umut Uçar
Mehmet Zeber
Mete Ağaoğlu
Muammer Kotbaş
Muammer Olcay
Mustafa Kurmalı
Mustafa Yıldız
Mümin Bayram
Mümin Durmaz
Oğuz Gürel
Ola Seyid
Osman Akalın
Ömer Aksakal
Ömer Çam
Özcan Çalışkan
Recep Özcan
Saadet Demir Yalçın
Serdar Kıcıklar
Simge Çorumlu
Sudem Aktaş
Uğur Pamuk
Tamay Ertenoğlu
UKRAYNA – UKRAINA
Alexander Dubovsky
Konstantin Kazanchev
Valery Momot
Victor Holub
Vladimir Kazanevsky
YUNANİSTAN – GREECE
Grigoris Georgiou
👉 Click here to see the Jury Panel of the 15th International Cartoon Contest, Cyprus 2026.