A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. The art of creating such representations.

A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation: The trial was a caricature of justice. To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner.

[French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, to load, exaggerate, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon.]

CARICATURIST
SYNONYMS caricature, burlesque, parody, travesty, satire, lampoon. These nouns denote artistic forms in which someone or something is imitated in an amusing and generally critical manner. A caricature grossly exaggerates a distinctive or striking feature with intent to ridicule: drew a caricature of the politician. Burlesque, which usually denotes a dramatic work, suggests outlandish mimicry and broad comedy to provoke laughter: a burlesque playing at the theater. Parody, travesty, and satire generally apply to written works. Parody employs the manner and style of a well-known work or writer for a ludicrous effect: wrote a parody of the famous novel. A travesty is a harshly distorted imitation: a travesty of morality. Satire usually involves ridiculing follies and vices: employs satire in her poetry. A lampoon is a malicious but broadly humorous satire: a lampoon authored by a standup comic.

WORD HISTORY
The history of the word caricature takes us back through the centuries to a time when the Romans occupied Gaul, offering the blessings of civilization to the Gauls but also borrowing from them as well. One such borrowing, the Gaulish word *karros, meaning “a wagon or cart,” became Latin carrus, “a Gallic type of wagon.” This Latin word has continued to roll through the English language, giving us car, career, cargo, carry, and charge, among others. Caricature, another offspring of carrus, came to us via French from Italian, in which caricatura, the source of the French word, was derived from Italian caricare, “to load, burden, or exaggerate.” Caricare in turn came from Late Latin carricāre, “to load,” derived from the Romans' Gaulish borrowing carrus.

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Into Turkish and into appearing German caricature magazine -Don Quichotte- specified the topic to second competition in this year as - immigration - . - Don
Quichotte - is a bi-lingual culture magazine, to make possible a whose goal a direct connection of the Turkish caricature with the world caricature and to point the topics out of the world from different point of view as well as to
bundle these works in an exhibition to a forming of an opinion. These topic tables` definitions are in the 50. Anniversary of German -immigration-, both in
the society, and in the intercultural exchange, once more the centre. The goals of this competition are to be pointed out above all the reasons of immigration and the analysis of the problems of the immigrants. The basis of this topic
table`s definition lies in two questions hidden:

1) Why do humans decide to leave and live in another country live its country?

2) Why do the country of the immigration accept these humans not as like their
own citizens?

The problems of the illegal immigration employ us in the whole world each day
ever more. Humans, who are transporters illegally from a country to another, the
either at hunger and suffering or as we in the last months frequently
experienced, drown on grausemer way in the sea. The powerlessness of the states
before this problem and the inability to find a durable solution increase this
kind of tragedies each year. -Don Quichotte- hopes by the diversion of the
attention by designs, its contribution for the identification of a durable
solution, carries out to be able.

THE RULES OF COMPETITION:
1) With participation in competition is possible only by Internet.
donquichotte@donquichotte.at  or donquichotte@gmx.net 
2) The participating work may have been published neither with another
competition presented nor on any way. With an offence, the deprivation of the
achieved prices is the result.
3) The designs are to be drawn in A3-Size to deliver in 300 dpi dissolution and
in JPEG format. They know both and black-and-white, and to be colored, the
coloured representation is exactly the same as the colortechnical treatment of
the work is incumbent on not a containment.
 
4) The sent in caricatures are issued first on the web pages of the -Don
Quichotte- under the column (today/Bugün). Thus the work those is excluded the
regulation to contradict, promptly from the competition. Thus in the past the
pretty often experienced unauthorized counterfeit, of a work is avoided. 5) The
closing date of the competition is 28 February 2007.
6)The jury, from the artist living in Germany, writer, politician, journalist
(immigrant like also Germans) exists, evaluates the works between 10. and 15.
March. Results of this evaluation and conception of the price-crowned
works are published on 31 March 2007.
7) The award of the prize will take place in the context of the opening of the
exhibition in April in Esslingen (place and date of this meeting are
communicated at a later time).
 
THE PRIZES:
- First Prize: € 1,000, 00
- Second Prize: € 750,00
- Third Prize: € 500,00
- Special Prizes (given change from the Institutional and federations Active in Germany in this area)

Jury:
- Marlene Pohle (President general of FECO, cartoonist in Stuttgart)
- Valeri Kurtu (Cartoonist, Berlin)
- Derek Easterby (Cartoonist- Nürnberg)
- Steffen Jahsnowski Herschel(Cartoonist- Berlin)
- Selma Aykan Emiroğlu (Cartoonist, Soprano Munich)
- Muhsin Omurca (Cabaretist, Cartoonist Ulm)
- Erdoğan Karayel (Cartoonist DQ Publisher Stuttgart)
- Hayati Boyacioglu (Cartoonist, Journalist- Berlin) ´
- Ismail Çoban (Painter-Wuppertal)
- Mahmut Celayir (Painter-Stuttgart)
- Sinasi Dikmen (Author Cabaretist Frankfurt)
- Mehmet Ünal (Photography artist- Mannheim)
- Gürsel Köksal (journalist, ATGB chairman Frankfurt)
- Ozan Ceyhun (Politician SPD-Berlin)
 
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CONTACT: Bursa Rotary Club
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FIRST YEAR: 1992
FREQUENCY: Annual
ELIGIBILTY:Open National and International
THEME :
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CATALOG AND CD: To every selected artist
NUMBER OF ENTRIES: Can send up both theme of 3 pieces each
MAXIMUM DIMENSIONS: A4 (210x297) mm.
DEADLINE:. February21 st 2007
EXHIBITION:March 21 st 2007- March 31 st 2007
AWARDS: Cemal Nadir Prize 2000$, Orhan Holding Prize 1000$, Bursa Rotary Club Prize 1000$, and six Honour Mentions 200$ of each. + Honour certificates will be given to finalists
ARTWORKS: Will not be returned.All the rights exhibiting,printing etc. of the works belong to the Executive comittee
This Competition is held in collobaration with Bursa Rotary Club, Orhan Holding and Cartoonist Society of Bursa

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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. He and fellow-Beatle Paul McCartney formed the massively successful Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership throughout the 1960s, writing songs for The Beatles and other artists to record.

Lennon's songwriting was often full of pain and hope. His melodies were at times beautiful and at times dark. His lyrics reflected his personal and career demands, philosophical outlook, his unease with his fame, and current events. As a writing pair, Lennon's hard-edged and McCartney's optimistic styles complemented one another. The Beatles, largely under Lennon and McCartney's influence and with their record producer George Martin, revolutionised rock music with their lyrics, instrumentation, harmony, and electronic effects, changing the nature of popular music at the time and paving the way for the music of the 1970s,  1980s and beyond. In his solo career distinct from The Beatles, Lennon wrote and recorded songs that became icons of the age, such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance".

Lennon, on television and in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), and by press conferences and interviews, revealed his rebellious, iconoclastic nature and quick, irreverent wit. He channeled his fame and penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist and author.

He had one son, Julian, with his first wife, Cynthia; he later married his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, and they had one son, Sean. John Lennon was murdered in New York City on December 8, 1980 by a deranged fan, as he and Ono returned home from a recording session; he was, and continues to be, mourned throughout the world.

In 2002, the BBC polled the British public about the 100 Greatest Britons of all time. Respondents voted Lennon into eighth place. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gogue is a Spanish Cartoonist. Please visit more of his work by cliking here.

Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an Oscar-winning American actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century. He brought the techniques of either the Stanislavski System or method acting (commonly mistaken for the same acting technique) to prominence in the films A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. His acting style, combined with his public persona as an outsider uninterested in the Hollywood of the early 1950s, had a profound effect on a generation of actors that would come after him.

Brando was also an activist, lending his presence to many issues, including the American Indian Movement.

He was named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
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For the sixteenth time the association EURO-KARTOENALE KRUISHOUTEM - BELGIUM is organizing the biennale cartoon contest EURO-KARTOENALE.

The theme for the edition 2007 is "LOCKS and KEYS".

You can find more information here:
www.ecc-kruishoutem.be

The direct link to the English page about the contest is:
http://www.ecc-kruishoutem.be/wedstrijd_2007_ENG.html

From that page you can also download a pdf-file with a leaflet and one with an entry form.

Custodio´s cartoons of World Cup 2006. Brazilian team cartoons, caricatures and football comic strips, day-after-day while world cup is on. Leave your comments. You will find non-football stuff in www.custodio.net

Custodio Rosa is a Brazilian Cartoonist. Was born in Sao Paulo, 1967. His cartoons are distributed by Agencia Estado, the major news agency in Brazil, and he published in 50 newspapers in Brazil and overseas. As a tipical Brazilian, he loves to play football, which bring him happiness and an eight hole plate and multiple screws in my ankle. More informations about his work: www.custodio.net