Finalists of the first edition of the LIBEX-2018 Contest

From the website of the LIBREXPRESSION Center.

Fifty five cartoons were chosen for the final selection of the first edition of the LIBEX-2018 contest launched on May 15th by the Euro-Mediterranean Center LIBREXPRESSION of the “Giuseppe Di Vagno” Foundation, on the theme chosen for the 14th edition of the Lector In Fabula festival: “Imagination and Power in the digital age“.

A very successful first edition: 260 candidates from 55 countries, send 635 cartoons. The works all boast a very high level and a sensitivity very close to the challenges of modernity: from smart phones to Artificial Intelligence, to Robots.

The selection of the finalists was not easy for the jury composed of internationally renowned cartoonists Fabio Magnasciutti and Marco De Angelis, and by three journalists, managing editors, who use satirical cartoons in their media: Gian Paolo Accardo (Voxeurop.eu), Cristiana Castellotti (RAI-Radio 3) and Piero Ricci (La Repubblica, President of the Order of Journalists of Puglia). The jury was chaired by Thierry Vissol, director of LIBREXPRESSION – “Di Vagno” Foundation.

The 55 finalist cartoons will be part of the exhibitionset up in the cloister of the Monastery of San Benedetto in Conversano (BA), Italy.

The 10 best cartoons among these 55, will be voted in the coming days and reproduced in the form of postcards. All finalists will receive a copy of the exhibition catalog.

Pricing Ceremony
The three winners will be awarded during Lector in fabula Festival, on Sunday, September 16th. 2018.


The 55 finalists are:

Algeria 

  Nour El Yakine FERHAOUI
Azerbaijan 

  Seyran CAFERLI
Belgium 

  Luc VERNIMMEN
Brazil 

  Paulo Sergio JINDLET 

  Silvano MELLO
Burkina Faso 

  Damien GLEZ
China

  LI JINGSHAN

  ZHU SHAOWEI

  JIN XIAO XING 

  DUOYI YANG
Colombia

  Orlando CUELLAR 

  Elena OSPINA
Croatia 

  Nikola LISTES
Cuba 

  Yoemnis BATISTA del TORO
Egypt

  Mustafa OMAR SEDEK
France/Iran 

  HEIDARI Shahrock
France

  Pascal KIRCHMAIR
India 

  Kallol MAJUMDER
Indonesia 

  Jitet KUSTANA
Iran 

  Efat AMJADIPOOR

  Esmaeil BABAEI

 Yalda HASHEMINEZHAD 

  Javad TAKJOO
Italy 

  Mauro BIANI

  Guido CLERICETTI

  Lido CONTEMORI

  Gabriele CORVI (Lele)

  Emanuele DEL ROSSO

  Giuseppe INCIARDI

  Gianlorenzo INGRAMI

  Walter LEONI

  Andrea PECCHIA

  Umberto ROMANIELLO 

  Lamberto TOMASSINI (TOMAS)
Lebanon/France

  Patrick PINTER
Macedonia 

  Jordan POP ILIEV
Norway 

  Fadi TOON (Fadi Abou Hassan)
Romania 

  CRISAN & PETRY 

  George LICURICI
Russia 

  Vladimir SEMERENKO 

  Aleksandr ZUDIN
Serbia 

  Milenko KOSANOVIC
Spain

 Josef PRCHAL
Unitrd States 

  Mary ZINS
Svwitzerland

 Vincent CHEVALLEY 

 Vincent DI SILVESTRO
Thailand

  Passaprawas A-CHINOBOONWAT
Tunisia 

  Nadia KHIARI (Willis from Tunis)
Turkey

  Ömer ÇAM 

  Oguz GUREL
Ukraine

  Konstantin KAZANCHEV

  Vladimir KAZANEVSKY 

  Oleksiy KUSTOVSKY
Uruguay 

  Leslie RICCIARDI
Uzbekistan 

  Shavkat MUZAFFAR (TUPAROV)