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CIPE Launches New Global Editorial Cartoon Competition

Advocacy cartoons transcend language barriers and illiteracy. One powerful cartoon can communicate where a thousand words often cannot. CIPE's new global competition is open to professional and amateur cartoonists, students, and professionals from any country and any walk of life. Please send this message to teachers and students, journalists, and other friends who might want to enter. Cash prizes totaling $5,000 will be awarded to winners submitting cartoons in three categories: Democracy, Corruption, and Gender Equality. Entries will be judged on originality, relevance to the competition topic, creativity, universal message, wit, and visual appeal. Through an online voting process on the CIPE web site, the general public will choose winners from among ten finalists in each category. Those finalists will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges:

Pat Oliphant
Pulitzer Prize winner; world’s most widely syndicated cartoonist
Michael Duffy
Assistant Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
Frances Abouzeid
Chief of Party, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)-Jordan
Tasneem Ahmer
Director, Uks Research Centre
Jacques Charmelot
Correspondent, Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Tom Gibson
Founder, Advocacy Animation; USA Today cartoonist; Assistant to President Reagan
Marc Pachter
Director Emeritus, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Elena Panfilova
General Director, Transparency International-Russia

CIPE will accept original unpublished illustrations on its web site and via mail effective immediately, until 23:59 UTC/GMT onSunday, April 17, 2011. Captions are not required but, if included, English language submissions are preferred. Submissions will be accepted in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish, if they include an English translation at the time of submission. For more information, visit www.cipe.org/cartoon/.