๐ฒ๐ฐ The organizing committee of the 58th World Gallery of Cartoons, Skopje 2026 has officially announced the finalists of one of the world’s most prestigious international cartoon competitions.
๐ A total of 988 cartoons by 261 cartoonists from 58 countries were submitted to the competition. Following the selection process, the finalists will now be presented to the international jury for the final judging.
๐ง⚖️ The international jury will review the finalists’ works and determine the award winners, the official results are scheduled to be announced in September 2026.
๐ FINALISTS:
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan: Mehdi YOSEFI
๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania: Endri BEQO
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria: Abdelghani BENHARIZA
๐ฆ๐ท Argentina: Santiago CORNEJO; Jose SEPI
๐ฆ๐บ Australia: Louis POL
๐ฆ๐น Austria: Klaus PITTER
๐ง๐ช Belgium: Luc DESCHEEMAEKER; Read KHALIL; Artist duo GJISTE
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina: Goran KRCMAR
๐ง๐ท Brazil: Ronaldo CUNHA DIAS; Evaldo OLIVEIRA; Angelo PASTRO
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: Hristo TRENEV; Tsocho PEEV
๐จ๐ณ China: Jingshan LI; Qiang LIU; Jinyang QI; Wei Bin CAI
๐ญ๐ท Croatia: Marko IVIC; Mojmir MIHATOV
๐จ๐บ Cuba: Javier CUBERO TORRES; Roberto Castillo RODRIGUEZ
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt: Sherif ARAFA
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: Anatoliy LERNER; Kateryna ZHATOVA; Helmut JACEK
๐ฌ๐ท Greece: Dimitris GEORGOPALIS
๐ญ๐บ Hungary: Gergley BACSA
๐ฎ๐ณ India: Manoj CHOPRA
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia: Agus WIDODO
๐ฎ๐ท Iran: Sajad RAFEEI; Pooya ABDOLI; Yalda HASHEMINEZHAD; Amin MONTAZERI; Amir DEHGHAN; Bahram ARJMANDNIA
๐ฎ๐น Italy: Claudio MELLANA; Giorgio GIUNTA; Milko DALLA BATTISTA
————— Grigori KATZ
๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: Ilja BEREZNICKAS
๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro: Darko DRLJEVIC
๐ฒ๐ฐ N. Macedonia: Mile MANCEVSKI; Zlatko KRSTEVSKI; Blaze DOKULE; Nikola NIKOLOV
๐ต๐ฑ Poland: Tomasz ROGOWSKI
๐ต๐น Portugal: Josรฉ Manuel VIEIRA VAZ
๐ท๐ด Romania: Mihai BOBOC; Pavel CONSTANTIN; Borta AMBROZIE OVIDIU; Liviu STANILA; Cristinel VECERDEA
๐ท๐บ Russia: Igor SMIRNOV; Viktor SKOPINTSEV; Alexander SHMIDT
๐ท๐ธ Serbia: Toso BORKOVIC; Marko SOMBORAC; Spiro RADULOVIC; Dragoslav JANOSEVIC
๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia: Darina KLICKOVA
๐ช๐ธ Spain: Alejandro DEL CERRO GRACIA
๐ธ๐พ Syria: Morhaf YOUSSEF
๐น๐ท Turkey: Engin SELCUK; Fahriye CITAKLI; Murat MAKARA
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine: Vladimir KAZANEVSKY; Viktor KUDIN; Igor LUKYANCHENKO; Oleh HUTSOL
๐บ๐ธ USA: Paul PALUSHI
๐บ๐ฟ Uzbekistan: Makhmudjon ESHONKULOV
๐ป๐ช Venezuela: Irwin BORJAS
๐ You can view all the finalist artworks through the following link: https://www.osten.mk/en/58-wgc-2026-finalists/