21st Caratinga International Humor Salon,Brazil 2026
MAIN THEME: Media Professionals
DATES: Registration: August 1st to September 20th, 2026
ORGANIZATION - The Caratinga International Humor Salon is an event organized by the Caratinga Cultural Station.
SUPPORT: Caratinga City Hall
EXHIBITION: The works submitted to the competitive exhibition will be on display from October 19th to 25th, 2026.
MODALITIES: Original works may be submitted with only 01 (ONE) work per category:
CARTOON – Theme: Press Professionals
CARICATURE – theme: FREE (VERTICAL)
THEMATIC CARICATURE - (VERTICAL)
Geraldo Rodrigues de Carvalho “Geraldo Ratão”
(Outstanding Citizen of Caratinga)
Photos of the honoree: copy the link:
https://salaodehumordecaratinga.blogspot.com/2026/08/geraldo-ratao-eo-homenageado.html
TOPIC: Media professionals play an essential role in building democratic societies by informing, investigating, contextualizing facts, and stimulating public debate. In an era marked by the speed of information, disinformation, social media, and artificial intelligence, their work demands a permanent commitment to ethics, editorial independence, and social responsibility. Journalists, reporters, photographers, cinematographers, cartoonists, illustrators, editors, radio broadcasters, and other communicators face increasingly greater challenges in the face of technological transformations that redefine how news is produced, distributed, and consumed. Those who inform the world are also under judgment. Between facts, versions, algorithms, interests, censorship, and the avalanche of false information, media professionals daily grapple with the challenge of distinguishing facts from noise, information from manipulation, and the public interest from private interests. In times when anyone can publish and millions can share, what, ultimately, is the role of the press? Where does freedom of expression end and responsibility begin? How to preserve ethics, credibility, and independence in the face of political, economic, and technological pressures? This theme invites cartoonists from Brazil and abroad to offer a critical, humorous, and intelligent look at those who record history as it happens. After all, when news becomes spectacle, silence becomes strategy, and lies gain speed, humor remains one of the sharpest ways to reveal the truth. More than discussing journalism, this theme proposes reflecting on the relationship between information, power, freedom, truth, and society, offering a wide field for satire, criticism, and humor.
PARTICIPATION - Artists of any nationality, amateur or professional, over 18 years of age, may participate. Each participant may submit original drawings. Drawings that have already won awards by the closing date of entries will not be eligible.
REGISTRATION FORM - A3 file / jpg: 300 DPI.
Registration Form
TECHNIQUES - DIMENSIONS: 30 cm x 40 cm. The works must be original and unpublished. The technique is free. Works printed on coated paper/A3 will also be accepted. The use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is not permitted.
PRIZES: Cash: R$ 1,000.00 (One thousand reais) for the first place winners in each of the three categories, totaling R$ 3,000.00 (three thousand reais), under the full responsibility of the Municipality of Caratinga.
IMPORTANT: Applications from abroad must indicate a bank with a branch in Brazil.
Trophies: for the top three finishers in each category. Certificates: For the three Honorable Mentions in each category. - There will be no more than one prize per author in each category. If this happens, the prize will be awarded to the author with the next highest score. - Other prizes and mentions may be established at the discretion of the Organizing Committee.
JUDGING - There will be a selection jury and an awards jury composed of qualified individuals in the field. The awards jury reserves the right not to award prizes to categories that do not reach a sufficient level, transferring them to other categories or creating a special prize for the Salon. If the awards jury finds any kind of irregularity, fraud, or plagiarism in one or more submitted works, it may cancel the award, granting it to the next artist in the ranking. The winning works will be announced on the blog and Facebook page of the Caratinga Humor Salon after the opening and may be contested up to one week after the opening of the salon with admissible evidence of any irregularity committed without the jury's knowledge. All submitted works (awarded or not) will be acquired by the Caratinga Cultural Station Association. The works will become part of the Caratinga Humor Salon's collection, which may participate in traveling exhibitions, dissemination in print, television, and electronic media, and be published in books and magazines. By participating in the contest, the artist agrees to the rules of this regulation. By registering, the author automatically transfers the copyright of their work(s) in accordance with Law No. 9610 of February 1988 (Copyright Law), in a total, universal and definitive manner, in all forms of use and free of charge. The copyright, protected by the aforementioned law, refers to the work(s) awarded in the Caratinga International Humor Salon, which becomes part of the Cultural Collection for Research and Dissemination of National Graphic Humor of the Caratinga Cultural Station Association for all purposes and rights, reserving the right to use them as they see fit. Simple registration automatically implies agreement with the terms of this regulation.
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