DEADLINE: 1st October, 2007.
PRIZES: €250.00 (+ certificate, + edition in several languages, + international promotion).
ENTRY FEE: €5

THE REGULATION OF THE COMPETITION

ITEM 1:  The world-wide competition 2007 of the 9th art (Cartoon) is organised by the  World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from 1st January 2007 to 1st October, 2007. All cartoonists, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate.

ITEM 2:  To participate in the competition, send a cartoon (or several cartoons) that are unpublished.  Cartoons can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either English, French, Spanish or Dutch. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.

ITEM 3:  The world-wide competition 2006 of the 9th art (cartoon) rewards the best unpublished cartoons. The ten possible themes are the following:
- Cartoon for kids;
- Cartoon for adolescents;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy and political thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure;
- science-fiction and fantansy;
- Comic strips;
- romance (love stories);
- erotic.

ITEM 4:  The three best cartoons from each theme will receive respectively:
- The golden Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);

-The silver Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published);

-The bronze Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (certificate, international promotion and the possibility of being published). 

ITEM 5:  The best cartoon among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 9th art: cartoon (a certificate, international promotion and a gift of a value of at least €250).

 ITEM 6: The concurrent cartoon must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.

ITEM 7: Cartoons that are sent in will not be returned to their authors.  Once sent in, it will not be modified or completed by registering again.  The author has to send his photography and his artistic curriculum vitae. Candidates are obliged  to send in their works either in English, French or Dutch and their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on to the participation card during the registration,   otherwise they will be eliminated.

ITEM 8:  ENTRY FEE : The entry Fee is 5 Euros for each registered work before the closing date of 1st October 2007.  It is possible to present several works. Every work will have separate inscription to it. The entry fee is non-refundable.

 ITEM 9: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.com from October 2, 2007. Netsurfers will then  be able to vote.  The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall work. The candidates do not receive any rights of authors concerning the usage of their works by the World and Universal Academy notably in regards to the voting process on the net.

ITEM 10:  The results will be announced in December 2007.  The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on May 7, 2008 during the first world and universal Festival in Groningen.  The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.

ITEM 11: Candidates must submit only original work of arts. Any work that we receive from participants is assumed to be authentic work of the author. In the event of false claim the author will bare the consequence alone. We wish all the participants good luck.

If you have any questions you can contact us with this email address:

contact@wuacademia.org