ITEM 1: The international CARTOON CONTEST -SUMMER 2007 is organised by the World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from 1st June 2007 until to 15th August 2007. All cartoonists, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate.
ITEM 2: To participate in the competition, send a cartoon (or several cartoons) that are unpublished. Cartoons can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either English, French, Spanish or Dutch. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.
ITEM 3: The international CARTOON CONTEST -SUMMER 2007 rewards the best unpublished cartoons. The ten possible themes are the following:
- Cartoon for kids;
- Cartoon for adolescents;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy and political thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure;
- science-fiction and fantansy;
- Comic strips;
- romance (love stories);
- erotic.
ITEM 4: The three best cartoons from each theme will receive respectively:
- The Golden Prize -summer 2007 of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);
-The Silver Prize -summer 2007 of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);
-The Bronze Prize -summer 2007 of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published).
ITEM 5: The best cartoon among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize -summer 2007 of the 9th art: cartoon (a certificate, international promotion).
ITEM 6: The concurrent cartoon must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.
ITEM 7: Cartoons that are sent in will not be returned to their authors. Once sent in, it will not be modified or completed by registering again. The author has to send his photography and his artistic curriculum vitae. Candidates are obliged to send in their works either in English, French or Dutch and their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on to the participation card during the registration, otherwise they will be eliminated.
ITEM 8: ENTRY FEE (FEES): €0 first entry, €10 each additional. It is possible to present several works. Every work will have an apart inscription to. The entry fee is non-refundable.
ITEM 9: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.org from August 16, 2007. Netsurfers will then be able to vote. The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall script. The candidates do not receive any rights of authors concerning the usage of their works by the World and Universal Academy notably in regards to the vote process on internet.
ITEM 10: The results will be announced in October 2007. The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on May 7, 2008 during the first world and universal Festival in Groningen. The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.
ITEM 11: Candidates must submit only original work of arts. Any work that we receive from participants is assumed to be authentic work of the author. In the event of false claim the author will bare the consequence alone. We wish all the participants good luck. |