Italy’s Mariagrazia Quarantana won the grand prize for the 16th edition of the World Press Cartoon, a digital art that was released this Saturday at the awards ceremony in Caldas da Rainha. Portuguese André Carrillo was awarded second prize in the cartoon category for a cartoon published in News diary…
Also in this category, the jury awarded the second prize to the work of Albanian Agim Sulay “2020 Pandemic Year”, published in the newspaper. Courier Romagna, in November 2020, and the third prize for “Breakfast” by Serb Goran Divac, published in the newspaper. Evening News, in December 2020.
In the category of cartoons, the first was awarded to the Mexican Dario Castillejos with the work “Greta Thunberg”, published in Candid, Portuguese Andre Carrillo, second, with “Juan Carlos II”, unpublished News diary, and Spaniard Ivan Mata Tamayo, third, with “Queen Sofia of Spain” published in El Diario Vasco.
At the awards ceremony, Carrillo joked that the Spanish royal family is receiving many awards and thanked the monarchs for the one he has received now – and that he is not the first.
Ukrainian Konstantin Kazanchev won the first place in the “Editorial Cartoon” nomination, for an untitled cartoon published on the Dutch animation platform Cartoon Movement, second place to Australian David Roe for Trump Riot, published in Australian Financial Review, and third place to Argentine Alejandro Becares for David and Goliath, also published on the platform Cartoon Movement.
Almost a thousand works from 64 countries participated in this edition. Selected works will be on display until October 17th at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos in Caldas da Rainha.
The drawings were judged by an international jury, which, in addition to the salon director, included Christine Traxeler from France, Yugoslav Vlahovic from Serbia, Leonardo Gutierrez from Venezuela and Joao Alpuim Botelho from Portugal.
“With more than 16 nearly seamless editions released since 2005, World Press Cartoon has become a meeting place for talent and an incentive to create quality in this area,” said festival director Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Antunes, adding that the salon is committed to contributing to “supporting authors in the harsh context of a serious crisis facing the international press. “
The event began in Sintra in 2005, in 2014 it was moved to Cascais, and in 2015 its cash value of prizes was reduced to 25 thousand euros, as a result of which the organization concluded that there was no condition for its maintenance.
Caldas da Rainha in the Leiria area has been hosting it since 2017.
