Cuban and Norwegian became the best cartoonists

Cuban illustrator Aristide Hernandez and Norwegian artist Egil Nihus received the highest award of the eighth World Press Cartoon contest, which features cartoons from newspapers from around the world. The award ceremony was held in the city of Sintra, 30 kilometers from Lisbon (Portugal).

Most of the prizes went to representatives of Colombia and Spain. They were noted in all competitive categories. For example, Omar Figueroa Turkios from Colombia took second place in the Humor “X” section for his work published in his country’s Colombian newspaper La Opinión. In the comics category, second place was awarded to the Spanish author, Javier S. Alonso, for the story of “The Windsor Brothers” in El Jueves magazine.

Another Spanish artist, David Vela, received a second prize for his work “Blackberry, the Leading People,” published in Moneda Unica magazine.

The drawing “Strauss-Kahn” by the Norwegian artist Nijus, who won the first prize in the category of caricature and the work of the Cuban Aristide, who also won the first prize in the category of editorial drawing, shared the grand prix of the competition.

Other winners are Romanian Pavel Konstantini, who won the Ecology award, Albanian Agim Sulay for the Children of Africa, Riber Hansson from Sweden for the cartoon Berlusconi, and Serb Goran Divac for the work Indoor.

At the eighth World Press Cartoon contest, 861 cartoons from 56 countries were presented, of which 343 were selected and will now become part of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Sintra.

This year the jury of the competition consisted of Portuguese Antonio Antunes, representing the Lisbon weekly Expresso, Spaniard Fernando de Puig Rosado, Dutchman Peter Newvenkyk, Frenchman Jean Mulatier and American Lisa Donnelly.

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