The Portuguese Printing Press Museum internationally launch the theme of the X PortoCartoon-World Festival ¬ "Human Rights", on the same day that the heads of state of 27 countries of the European Union sign the new Treaty of Lisbon and approve the charter of fundamental rights of the European citizens.
With the choice of this theme, the organizer of PortoCartoon wants the cartoonists worldwide to focus on the continued violation of human rights in the 21st century, and after more than two centuries of French Revolution (1789).
According to the general rules of this contest “this is a subject that crosses the world, from the most assumed countries in matters of the rights legislation to the most retrograde in the law and its practise... The theme is even justified by the fact that every day there are individual, collective, social, economic and cultural rights in question.

As one of the most important rights is the freedom of press, it is also fair and opportune with this 10th PortoCartoon to evoke and pay tribute to John Milton, the author of the first speech on this topic. The poet of the “Paradise Lost” was born 400 years ago (1608) and his speech, named Areopagitica was made in the English parliament in 1644.
The active intervention of the cartoonists all over the world is very relevant on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights.
For those who eventually do not wish to participate under this theme, there will be a Free Category. The international politics, the social life, the communication and other themes can always by a way of expressing the humour art.
The winners of PortoCartoon will receive a monetary prize, the trophy of the festival, designed by Arqto Siza Vieira and special bottles of Port wine.
G. Wolinski presides to the international jury that has the following members: the President of FECO (Federation of Cartoonists’ Organizations), Marlene Pohle; representatives of the Ministry of Culture, the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, the Portuguese Printing Press Museum and any representatives of other institutions related to the cartoon.
The X PortoCartoon-World Festival has the official sponsorship of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos and will be inaugurated during the festivities of the city of Porto in June.

The works to the X PortoCartoon should arrive at the Portuguese Printing Press Museum (E.N. 108, nº 206, 4300-316 Porto, Portugal) with the entry form until 31 March 2008.

The PortoCartoon has been a space of excellence for humour worldwide and is considered by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists’ Organizations) as one of the three most important cartoon contests in the world, either for the participation number of artists worldwide and also for the value of its prizes.
The PortoCartoon began in 1999, and its exhibition receives every year thousands of visitors, both on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum installations and on the several cities and countries where is presented.

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The visitors to the Portuguese Printing Press Museum already can buy the best cartoons of the European Cartoon Contest "Inequalities, Discrimination and Prejudice" which catalogue received in 2007 the prize for BETTER INFORMATION of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
A collection of postcards of 26 cartoons, presents the awarded, the honourable mentions and the finalists of the contest promoted by the National Institute for Rehabilitation and organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
The cartoons show the best of European humour on an issue that concerns us all, and were made exclusively by European authors from countries such as: Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Spain, France, England, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.
These cartoons can also be seen in the book, awarded with the prize for BETTER INFORMATION of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
Under the scope of this European Cartoon Contest the exhibition of the best works had been seen by several thousand of visitors, in Rossio Railway Station, in Lisbon.
The postcards can be purchased together or individually, on the museum and on its online store.

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The book of cartoons "Inequalities, Discrimination and Prejudice" produced by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, organizer of PortoCartoon-World Festival, won the prize for BEST INFORMATION of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
This catalogue is a result from the European Cartoon Contest with the same name, organized by the Portuguese Institute for Rehabilitation (INR) in partnership with the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, for European artists.
The book brings together the 200 best works of the contest, including the awarded ones, the finalists and honourable mentions. It has 135 pages, is bilingual (Portuguese / English) and includes messages from the Portuguese Secretary of State for Rehabilitation and all members of the international jury of the contest: Marlene Pohle, president to the jury and FECO (Germany), Luís Humberto Marcos, director of PortoCartoon and the Portuguese Printing Press Museum; Xaquin Marin, director of the Museo de Humor (Fene / Spain); Andreia Marques, the Portuguese Institute for Rehabilitation, Luís Gouveia, DFJ Vinhos Marketing director.
The book can be purchased at the on-line store of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
The BEST INFORMATION Prize was announced during the Closing Conference of the European Year held in Lisbon, on November 20, in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union.
The 600 participants in the conference voted on 30 products, produced under the theme of the European Year in 3 categories: visual, audiovisual and information. In category Visual won a poster of Belgium referring to the non-discrimination, in the category Audiovisual won a TV spot of Poland that warned the public to the need of educating children not to commit discriminatory practices, and the European Cartoon Contest catalogue, from the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, representing Portugal, won the Information category.
The exhibition of the European Cartoon Contest, named “Inequality, Discrimination and Prejudices” , was shown to the public in the Rossio Station, in Lisbon, and it was visited by several thousand people.

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This exhibition is composed by half hundred cartoons and presents the works of the "Ibero-American artists” awarded in the various editions of PortoCartoon-World Festival. This is a virtual exhibition, named "Ibero-American Humour in PortoCartoon".
The works shown in this exhibition were selected by the international jury of the contest (presided by Wolinski, famous French cartoonist), which each year has the task of choosing the best works received from all around the world. This is the first virtual exhibition organized under PortoCartoon-World Festival and it can be seen the works made by artists from Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, among other Latin American countries.
In the past nine editions of PortoCartoon, five Latin American artists were awarded. Angel Boligán Corbo won the grand prize of II PortoCartoon and several honourable mentions in the following years. Boligan was born in Cuba but is naturalized Mexican. It works like editorial cartoonist in the daily newspaper El Universal.

The Brazilian Cau Gomez, from Bahia, won the IX PortoCartoon dedicated to Ecotourism. On the first edition of this festival, the Spanish Madrigal was awarded with the third prize. David Vela, also Spanish, won the second prize in the VII PortoCartoon. This year’s edition awarded the Brazilian DaCosta with the second prize.
The cartoons show the strength of reflexive humour regarding the most worrying problems of the world such as pollution, hunger, consumerism, lack of water, the abuse of power, desertification and globalization, among others.
For the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, the presence of this exhibition in X Ibero-American Congress of Communication, in Mexico, is like a bridge between cultures, countries and regions in the context of the internationalization of PortoCartoon-World Festival. The trophy designed by architect Siza Vieira clearly shows this interculturality.
The PortoCartoon has been a space of excellence for humour worldwide and is considered by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists’ Organizations) as one of the three most important cartoon contests in the world.

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Thousands of visitors has seen the European Cartoon Contest exhibition “Inequalities, Discrimination and Prejudice” at the Estação do Rossio, in Lisbon.
With almost 200 works, the exhibition showed the awarded, the honourable mentions and the best works of the European Cartoon Contest promoted by The Portuguese Institute for the Rehabilitation and organized by The Portuguese Printing Press Museum, as per the designation of 2007 as the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
The museum was the entity chosen to be partner of this European unique initiative and was responsible for the contest organization, for the setting of the works chosen for the exhibition and the catalogue production.
The exhibition, which commissioner was Luís Humberto Marcos, director of the museum, has works of artists from 29 European countries, so different as Germany, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Spain, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, England, Israel, Holland, Macedonia, Poland, Ukraine, amongst other.
Portugal is the most participated country with works in this exhibition with 16 authors. Romania, Serbia and Turkey were also very participative.
The visitors could see caricatured different ways of discrimination, prejudice and stereotypes that affect thousands everyday.
The Portuguese Ministry of Work and Social Solidarity, Vieira da Silva, presided to the inauguration ceremony, and delivered the trophies to the winners of the contest: Ludo Goderis (Belgium), Grand Prize: NAPO (France), 2nd Prize; Musa Gumus (Turkey), 3rd Prize. The honourable mentions Gabriel Rusu (Romania) and Valeriu Kurtu (Moldavia) were also present in the ceremony.
On the same occasion was launched the catalogue “Inequalities, Discrimination and Prejudice”. This was a co-edition of the Museu Nacional da Imprensa and Edições Afrontamento, with 135 pages, bilingual (Portuguese/English) and shows the best 200 works, including the awarded, the honourable mentions and the finalists ones. The book includes a message of the Portuguese Secretary for the Rehabilitation, Idália Moniz and original texts of all members of the international jury: Marlene Pohle, president of the Jury and Federation of the Cartoonists’ Organizations (Germany), Luís Humberto Marcos, director of PortoCartoon and The Portuguese Printing Press Museum; Andreia Marques, the Portuguese Institute for the Rehabilitation; Luís Gouveia, DFJ Vinhos Marketing director; and Xaquin Marín, director of the Museo de Humor (Fene/Spain).
The catalogue can be bought on the Portuguese Printing Press Museum installations or on its on-line store.

Estação do Rossio

Delivery of prizes ceremony

 Delivery of prizes ceremony

 General view of the exhibition

Ludo Goderis thanks the prize

Napo thanks the prize

Musa Gumus thanks the prize

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The PortoCartoon-World Festival was exhibited in France on the biggest European humour salon, for the second time in two years, with the official sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

The exhibition “Desertification and Land Degradation” was the Portuguese presence on the “26eme Salon International du Dessin de Press et d’Humour”, of St. Just Le Martel.

With a set of 60 cartoons, this exhibition presented the awarded works, the honourable mentions and the works selected by the international jury of the 8th edition of the PortoCartoon contest.

When choosing this theme, the PortoCartoon organization wanted the cartoonists worldwide to think with humour about this drama that affects the life quality of billions of citizens.

This PortoCartoon works presented in France sent from many different countries, such as Germany, Argentina, Brazil, China. Mexico, Nigeria, and show, once again, the strength of the cartoon as a universal language.

The French humour salon is happening since more than 25 years ago and every year receives some of the best cartoonists in the world. It always shows great thematic and author exhibitions. This salon first prize is a cow, since the region is very rich in cattle breeding.

The presence of PortoCartoon in “the French capital of humour” is under the scope of a protocol signed in 2006, between the City Hall of St. Just le Martel and the Portuguese Printing Press Museum. This was another step on this Portuguese festival internationalisation, aiming at the reinforcement of its importance as an attraction point for the important names of the worldwide humour.

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Ludo Goderis, from Belgium, won the Grand Prize of The European Cartoon Contest - Inequalities, Discrimination and Prejudice -, organised by the Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação (The Portuguese Institute for the Rehabilitation) and the Portuguese Printing Press Museum. The Second Prize was to the French António Mongiello “NAPO” and the Third Prize was to Musa Gumus, from Turkey.

The international Jury also gave 12 Honourable Mentions to artists from 10 countries. The work of 11 finalists was also appreciated by the Jury.

The Grand Prize will receive a prize for the value of € 5000, and the second and third prizes will receive, respectively, € 2500 and € 1500.

The contest received more than half a thousand works, from the most differen european countries, being Portugal the most participative, followed by Romania, Serbia and Turkey. This contest was for European authors, of any country, being part or not of the 27 countries of the European Union.

This unique initiative is in accordance with the proclamation by the European Council of 2007 as the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All - Towards a Just Society. The contest’s purpose was to challenge he European Union artists to make cartoons on stereotypes, prejudice and all kind of discriminations, in matters of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.

The Portuguese Institute for the Rehabilitation and the Portuguese Printing Press Museum look forward that the European think over with humour about a behaviour that thousands of human beings face daily because of the non-acceptance of the diversity and the violation of their rights, facing exclusion and vulnerable situations.

The International Jury was presided by Marlene Pohle, General President to the Federation of Cartoonists’ Organisations (Germany) and had the following members: Luís Humberto Marcos, PortoCartoon and The Portuguese Printing Press Museum’s director; Andreia Marques of The Portuguese Institute for the Rehabilitation; Luís Gouveia, Marketing Director of DFJ Wines; and Xaquin Marin, director of the Museo de Humor de Fene (Spain).

The prizes will be delivered in a public ceremony and the exhibition inauguration will take place in Lisbon, on October.
 

Selection for exhibition and catalogue

 Grand Prize
Ludo Goderis | Bélgica
Title: “Right of way”

 2º Prize | Antonio Mongiello “Napo”
França
Title: “Exclusion”

3º Prize | Musa Gumus
Turquia
Title: “Wolf”
 

  Public presentation of the winners in Lisbon, presided by the Portuguese Secretary for the Rehabilitation and Integration for Disability.

     From right to left: Luísa Portugal, INR Director; Luís Humberto Marcos, the Portuguese Printing Press Museum director; Idália Moniz, Portuguese State Adjunct Secretary for the Rehabilitation: Elza Pais, coordinator of the Portuguese Mission for the European Year, Luís Gouveia, DFJ Wine director.

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The 9th PortoCartoon exhibition exhibition showed more than 400 works from the five continents in the International Cartoon Gallery of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
The public could see the awarded cartoons, the honourable mentions and works from distant and different countries as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, and many others.
The Globalisation theme had called the special attention of cartoonists worldwide which made this 9th PortoCartoon the most participated edition. When choosing this theme, the Portuguese Printing Press Museum wanted the public worldwide to think with humour about the impact globalisation affects worldwide the different sectors of society.

The Portuguese Secretary of Culture, Mário Vieira de Carvalho presided to the official ceremony, handed over the trophies and awards to the artists: Grzegorz Szumowski, from Poland, 1st Prize; DaCosta, from Brazil, 2nd Prize ex-aequo; Ludo Goderis, from Belgium; Ajubel, from Spain and António Santos, from Portugal, Honourable Mentions. The Belgian cartoonist had also opened his own exhibition, since he was the winner of The Public Prize of PortoCartoon 2006.
Many personalities were present in the ceremony, namely the president to the international jury of the contest, Georges Wolinski (France), and the President of FECO, Marlene Pohle (Germany), also author of one exhibition presented on this occasion.

The PortoCartoon has the official sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and this edition includes also the installation “Portugal-Brazil: the escape to success”, of Edu Grosso e Acácio de Carvalho; two author’s exhibitions: “Tango” of Marlene Pohle and “Ludo Goderis Humour”, and the “Cartoon Festival”.

The installation “Portugal-Brazil: the escape to success”, of Edu Grosso e Acácio de Carvalho evokes the D. João VI escape to Brazil on the 29th November 1807 and his arrival at Rio de Janeiro on March 1808.
The wall reflects these two artists way of seeing this period of the Portuguese and Brazilian History, which bicentenary is commemorated in 2008.
The Brazilian artist Edu painted a Rio de Janeiro image with images of some historical personalities, such as Carlota Joaquina, D. Maria and D. João VI and also Indians, parrots and monkeys. Acácio made a giant acrylic painting.
Edu Grosso is a well known artist in S. Paulo, with many awards on the best Brazilian graphic humour festivals and several on international ones. Acácio de Carvalho teaches on ESE-I.P.Porto. He worked for ten years as graphic designer in JN, a Portuguese daily newspaper and had participated in more than a hundred theatre productions, as an actor, stage manager and mainly as scenographer. He also had participated in many exhibitions.

This installation puts in action an agreement between this museum and the city of Piracicaba (estate of S. Paulo, Brazil), aiming to the development of joint initiatives on the humour drawing. The International Salon of Humour of Piracicaba is the world oldest graphic humour organisation and happens every year since 1974.

Tango

The President of FECO exhibition has thirty works about the “caliente” dance known as Tango.
Marlene Pohle was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She created the Federation of Cartoonists’ Organizations (FECO) together with some colleagues from Holland and Belgium. Since then, Marlene began to participate in festivals and international humour contests. In 1977 FECO Germany was created and Marlene Pohle was its first President and also helped in the creation of FECO Argentina. Marlene is the General President of FECO since June 2005, and she is regularly invited to Cartoon international festivals.

The Humour of Ludo Goderis

“The Humour of Ludo Goderis” showed a hundred works from this Belgian artist who won the choice of the public for PortoCartoon 2006. The exhibition was displayed in the cities of Porto and Lisbon, and was visited by thousands of visitors. The Public’s Prize had thousands of participations and the public could choose its favourite drawing, independently of the choice of the jury of this festival. The public choose the 3rs Prize awarded of the VIII PortoCartoon-World Festival.

Thousands on the Cartoon Festival

Thousands participated on the Cartoon Festival of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, during the S. João festivities. This was an initiative of the 9th PortoCartoon co-organized with PortoLazer and Oporto City Hall (Câmara Municipal do Porto). This “Festival” took place during the weekend (23-24 June) in a giant tent in Praça da Liberdade (Porto centre) where people could have their caricature made by Portuguese and international artists, namely by this edition awarded cartoonists.

The PortoCartoon-World Festival is annual since 1999 and FECO (Federations of Cartoonists’ Organizations) considered it as one of the three most important cartoon contest of the world. The exhibition is seen by thousands of visitors in our museum and on the several cities where is shown.

 

 General view of the exhibition

Grzegorz Szumowski receives 1st prize

  Dacosta receives 2nd prize 

From right to left: Ludo Goderis, Szumowski, Luís Humberto Marcos, DaCosta, António Santos and Ajubel.

  Installation “Portugal-Brazil

  Edu Grosso wall

    Acácio de Carvalho acrylic painting.

 Exposição de Marlene Pohle

"The Humor of Ludo Goderis" Exhibition - Dolce Vita

 The Cartoon Festival

The Cartoon Festival

 The Cartoon Festival

The Cartoon Festival

The Cartoon Festival

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The cartoonist Gregorz Szumovski from Poland was the winner of the IX PortoCartoon-World Festival Grand Prize, organised by The Portuguese Printing Press Museum, in Porto, Portugal, which Official Sponsorship of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
Osvaldo da Silva Costa from Brazil and Alessandro Gatto from Italy won the second prize ex-aequo and the third prize was to Rang Tan Li from China.
As the quality of the works received was of a very high level, the PortoCartoon international jury had also given 15 Honourable Mentions to cartoonists from 10 countries.
The PortoCartoon is considered by FECO (Federation of Cartoonists Organizations) as one of the three most important festivals of humour in the entire world when considering cartoonist participation and monetary prizes. This mark of honour puts Portugal in the top of the international cartoon contests. FECO is the most important international cartoonists’ organisation and represents more than 2000 artists of 30 countries.
The PortoCartoon international jury has presided by Georges Wolinski, and had the followings members: Marlene Pohle, FECO’s President General; Xaquin Marín, director of the Museu do Humor de Fene (Spain); Júlio Dolbeth, from Faculdade de Belas Artes (Portugal) and Luís Humberto Marcos, director of The Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
This year edition participation was bigger than in the earliest festivals, receiving more than 1700 works, from nearly 500 cartoonists, from 60 countries. Brazil was the most representative country in the contest with more than 250 works, followed by Iran (134) and Portugal in the third place with approximately 102 woks sent by 29 cartoonists.
The Globalisation was the chosen theme for the 9th PortoCartoon edition, as can read in the general rules of this contest edition “Never as today the process of globalisation had been so strong and with so many repercussions… the consequences of the globalisation spread themselves positive and negatively in economical, politics, industrial, commercial, sports, scientific, cultural, etc, terms”:
When choosing this theme, the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, that organizes this Festival, wanted the cartoonists worldwide to think with humour about the impact globalisation affects worldwide the different sectors of society.
The winners will receive their trophies, monetary prizes and bottles of special Port wine during the VIII PortoCartoon-World Festival inauguration that will take place on end of June, during the S. João of Porto festivities at the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
The PortoCartoon began in 1999, presided by the former President to the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio. Every year its exhibition receives thousands of visitors, both on the Portuguese Printing Press installations and on the several cities and coutries where is presented. Last year the best of the PortoCartoon could be seen in Brazil, Spain and France.
 

The jury selecting the winner and finalists cartoons.

1st Prize
Grzegorz Szumovski, Poland
Theme “Globalization”
Untitled
 

2nd Prize ex-aequo
Osvaldo da Silva Costa, Brazil
Theme “Globalization”
Title: "Motoperpetuo"
 

2nd Prize ex-aequo
Alessandro Gatto, Italy
Theme “Globalization”
Title: "Shopping"
 

3rd Prize
Run Tang Li, China
Free subject
Untitled
 

The jury selecting the winner and finalists cartoons.
 

PortoCartoon international jury. From right to left: Júlio Dolbeth, from Faculdade de Belas Artes (Portugal); Marlene Pohle, FECO’s President General; Georges Wolinski (France); Luís Humberto Marcos, director of The Portuguese Printing Press Museum and Xaquin Marín, director of the Museu do Humor de Fene (Galiza/Spain)
  

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The new International Cartoon Gallery of the Portuguese Printing Press Museum showed the VIII PortoCartoon-World Festival. The gallery has more than 400 m2 and presented 250 cartoons of the eighth edition of the PortoCartoon-World Festival, namely the works awardees, the honourables mentions and the best drawings selected by the international jury of the competition.

The “Desertification and Land Degradation” was the chosen theme for the 8th PortoCartoon edition, in accordance to UN when declaring 2006 as the International Year of Desertification.

The PortoCartoon-World Festival is considered by FECO as one of the three most important festivals of humoristic drawing in the entire world.

In parallel with the PortoCartoon exhibition, the public could see at the museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery, two international cartoon exhibitions: “Feco World Winners” (England) and “Piracicaba Humour” (Brazil).

All together, the public could appreciate more than 450 cartoons distributed by 800 m2. It could been seen works of five continents, from distant and different countries as Azerbaijan, Australia, Algeria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, among others, beyond the main European countries, including Portugal.

The VIII PortoCartoon-World Festival was opened in June 2006 and the session included the delivery of the awards to the winners, the opening of the PortoCartoon exhibition and the inauguration of the others international exhibitions. For the first time, the trophy drawn for the Portuguese architect Siza Vieira was given to the awards cartoonists.
The ceremony counted on the presences of: Rosangela Camolose, Secretary of the Cultural Action of Piracicaba; Maria Ivete Araújo, directress of the International salon of Humour of Piracicaba; Marlene Pohle, President of FECO and member of the jury; Xaquin Marin, director of the Museo of humour of Fene (Spain) and member of the jury. The winners of VIII the PortoCartoon: Musa Gümüs, from Turkey (1º Prize), Fero Kudlac, from Slovakia (2º prize), Ludo Goderis, from Belgium (3º prize) and Heino Partanen, from Finland (3º prize Ex-aequo with the special prize Port Wine) had been in the Museum and had received the monetary prizes, the trophies and bottles of Port Wine of Romariz (special reserve).

Internationalization

The PortoCartoon of 2006 marks a new stage in the internationalization of the festival and its importance in the international context, for the high quality reached and the obtained participation.

In the unanimous opinion of the international jury, that was presided again by the French cartoonist Georges Wolinski, this edition was marked for the excellency of cartoon that take the jury to attribute, for beyond the main awardees, eighteen honourables Mentions, in the set of the subjects. Thousands of works, from four hundred cartoonists, half hundred of countries, representatives of the five continents, reinforce the importance of the art of the humoristic drawing as the language most universal.

Another stage of the internationalization of the PortoCartoon is the presentation of two exhibitions of great international importance.

The signature of a protocol between the Portuguese Museum and the FECO organization in November of 2005 allows the presentation of the exposition "Feco World Winners” in Portugal. The FECO is the most important international organization of cartoonists representing more than 2000 artists of 30 countries. The exhibition was open in the United Kingdom in 2005 and arrived to Porto city, after passed for Egypt and Bulgaria.

The exhibition “Piracicaba Humour” shows more then a hundred of cartoons awardees in the festivals carried through the 32 years of existence of the International salon of Humour of Piracicaba, in Brazil. This is the most lasting organization of graphical humour of the world, performing every year since 1974. The coming of this exhibition to Portugal, results of the cooperation protocol signed between the Museum and the City hall of Piracicaba, in August of the passed year, for the development of joint initiatives in the sphere of the humour drawing.

Festival of Caricature

In the Porto city centre

The Portuguese Printing Press has promoted one festival of caricature in the Porto City centre, in the scope of the VIII PortoCartoon-World Festival.
The festival happened in proper spaces in the main avenue of the city and counted with the presence of fourteen national and foreign cartoonists.
Hundreds of people had the opportunity to see the artists making live caricatures and had been able to speak with the awardees cartoonists of the PortoCartoon, the members of the international jury of the festival and to take home its caricature.

PortoCartoon in the

Palácio da Bolsa

The Port Wine Special Prize created this year for the organization of the PortoCartoon to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the biggest “ambassador” of Portugal was displayed in the Palácio da Bolsa, in Ribeira (Porto), near the museum.