Behind the smile, Inside the smile 
after 2000 courage world cartoon contest

<Courage Catagory>

Some singers can sing "My Heart will Go On" ( the love theme from "Titanic") very well, touching many people's hearts ,   may be just  snobbish persons  in their real life .

But when it comes to artists and their arts , particularly, those arts embodying courage ,
I would rather believe both are equal and consistant

cartoonists are not politician, they're   "natural (born to be) enemy" of politicians.

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The next year of 2000 will be '1984' of Orwell?
Are we living in a sort of so-called  "Brave New World"   ?

Have you ever stumbled over a "wireless" ,   without  awareness   at all ?

Cartoon is an international language

If you heard kind of  accent or dialect, sometimes,  it maybe exactly spoke for us  (or   neighbors, ...)

In real world,  political truths are usually ugly and cruel , to explore the truth may be dangerous and difficult

In Courage catagory of this year, a lot of brave artists on earth contributed their courage and qualified works to this show.

They drew critical political themes by sharp wits, and clever skills

No white wash, No mis-leading

All deserve respects

Running dogs have been upgrading continuously
one way or another  
politicians may have dirty things done more cleanly
people can be fooled much easilier ( Hitler said it's lucky  )

Our steps will leave footprints
Our fists will win applause

<Humour Catagory>

Adults may smile naturally at cute and innocent children
In  popular home-video TV programs (ps), we have  seen quite a few cute children( or little kids) burst out laughing at stumbling adults

Maybe by nature, living human beings love to laugh at clown or buffoon actions?
Or many laughes come up together with a sense of superiority ?

In  Courage World Cartoon Contest of 2000, we do not have too much malicious,   malignant cartoons, instead, we enjoy a lot of good ironical sarcasms,  smart, witty cartoons,  rich in cultural diversity,   being satire upon  the humanity, mirroring the reality ....

Some cartoons  not only take you out of your boredon , but also make you think

Some of them reach high artistic  achievements

All  function well  to interest more people in the world to browse our expositions (lots world famous institutes and schools will within 2001 receive my invitation )

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Obviously, To select best of  best cartoons is a difficult task

After having consulted with  an European international cartoon expert  , as well as with Ron Chu , the no. 1 4-panel and gag cartoon cartoonist in Taiwan, top Humour awards were evaluated and decided eventually

It's fair  , to offer prizes to all artists cross the high-quality border

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ps: like "The world Funniest"

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Best of the best

2000 Courage World Cartoon Contest

COURAGE cartoons

Award of Dagger            Award of spur                  Award of Stiletto
L. Drewinski (Ger)            Mikmail M. Zlatkovsky (Rus)          Kambiz (Ger)

Award of Poniard            Award of DDirk                   Award of goad
Anton Dragos  (Rom)               Ilian Savkov  (Bul)                      L.   Hellman (Eng) 

Award of Needle          
Mihai Ignat  (Rom)         Feng   (Chn)   

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HUMOUR cartoons

grand prix (humor):   EDYPerazzolli (Italy)
1st prize:    V. Nenashev ( Russia)
2nd prize: POL  (Australia)

SPECIAL   prize
  M. Phole  (Germany)
Emilio Isca  (Italia)
Thorstein Eggertsson (Iceland)
Klas  (Yugo)

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editorial-cartoon Prize
 Keys  (Ireland)
A. Lee (singapore)

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Credits to every participant !!

Courage World Cartoon Contest Web-site is ranking (till present)
NO.1 in "cartoon contest" field by AOL.com, world top Internet engine;
NO.1 in "cartoon contest" field by HotBot.com, one of best Internet engines on earth
NO.1 in "cartoon contest" field by Lycos.com, one of best Internet engines on earth
etc
NO.1 in "cartoon contest" field by a very popular mainland Chinese engine and lots Taiwan ones
NO.6 "cartoon" web-site  by a world top engine (till 2/2001)

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Lex Drewinski   

Gold "Award of Dagger" winner obtains  (ref original price):

Diploma
Chris. Dior silk tie * 2       NT$6000 ($3000* 2)
Ralph Lauren wool cap    NT$ 1700
Charles Jourdan watch      NT $7500
Nautica cap (65% wool)    NT $800
Ralph Lauren tie * 2    NT $5000  ($2500 *2)
Aigner  sun glass    NT $ 14000
compact camera   NT$ n/a
StarBucks coffee glass   NT$300
computer-disk album

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MilMail M Zlatkovsky: "Tommy Hilfiger" sweater , "Aigner" sunglass ,
"GM" fashion watch,  "StarBucks" coffee glass, Diploma, disk album 

kambiz: "YSL" sweater , "P. Picasso" sunglass, "Christian Dior" socks,     "Ralph Lauren" wool cap  ,   Diploma,  disk album 

EDYPerazz: "P. Picasso" sunglass, "Pringle" golf sweater,  Diploma, disk album

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Around 120 prizes were mailed out  in  July 2000
(originally planned to send top 3 prizes only )

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most packets sent by sea-mail <random order>

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Marlene Pohle : "Guy Laroche" silk tie (NT $3200) ,"Ralph Lauren" cap
Emilio Isca: "Guy Laroche" silk tie (NT$3200)
Ye Ting:  "Armani" shirt
Feng G Bo: "Armani" wool sweater
Xia DaChuan: top brand silk tie made in Taiwan, "Ralph Lauren" POLO cap
Louis Postruzin : "Lacoste" Jacket , "Guy Laroche"  key-chain
Aristides E H Guerrero : "Lacoste" Jacket, "Guy Laroche" key-chain
Bess: "Ralph Lauren" shirts, "Giorgio Armani" long socks
Louis Hellman: france made "Lacoste" wool sweater
Willem Rasing : "Lacoste" T shirt, chopstick
Thorstein Eggertsson: Macau shirt, Italian design tie
G. Keyes: "Ralph Lauren" POLO cap
Anton Dragos: France made "Lacoste" wool sweater
Mihai Ignat: France made "Lacoste" wool sweater
Gennady Chegodayev: "Ted Lapidus" wool sweater
Tawan C.: "Ralph Lauren" wool cap
Valentin Druzhinin: wool sweater imported from Ireland
Klas: "Valentino" pen, Swiss made hankerchief
V. Nanashev: France made "Lacoste" wool sweater
Ilia Spitsevov: "Ralph Lauren" wool cap, leisure hat made in Italia
Slawomir Luczynski: "DKNY" fashion cap, "Raplh Lauren" wool cap
Murate Alimov: "GANT" jacket
Arkadiusz Szadkowski: "ESPRIT" wool sweater
Danny De Haes: "Aeropostale" pink dress shirt
D'hoop Freddy:  classic scarf
Ronald C. Dias: classic scarf
Sakic Zijad: "Ralph Lauren" wool caps
Adam Lee: tie
Alberto Jerez Benitez : classic scarf
Khezri Kaveh: classic scarf

and so on (N/A)

< other prizes by Sea-mail and  by Air-mail not listed in here >

each winner receive  a sheet of diploma and/or a disk album (stored some interesting cartoons ) ,
detected virus by "Norton 2000" and "Pccillin", but no guarantee for the peirod of delivery

No presents will be sent to those artists who did not write their addresses on the back of works
Please note if any packets lost in delivery

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Successful Cartoonists List
(chosen artists after 1st round)

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