73 World Humor Awards - 5:06pm Working - Edited, includes newsletter pitch insert === Daryl Cagle: [00:00:00] Hi, I am Daryl Cagle and this is the Caglecast where we're all about political cartoons. And today we are talking about the World Humor Awards and the World Humor Awards are in Italy this year and we've got all the winners and we have two of the main people that were, ~uh, ~dealing with the award on the juries. ~And, uh, ~they are Marco D'Angelis, who is our newest Kegel cartoonist. He comes from Italy. He's our first Italian cartoonist. I'm very happy to have you, Marco. Marco de Angelis: Yes. I don't know, ~but, but, uh, ~it is ~the, the, the, the ~voice. Daryl Cagle: Okay. And we have Robin Schwartzman. And Robin is a caricature cartoonist and she's the president of the ISCA. It's a caricature organization. thank you for being here, Robin. Robin Schwartzman: Thank you so much for having me. Daryl Cagle: So we're gonna talk about, ~uh, um, the, ~all the cartoons, the winners in all of these categories and, ~uh, uh, ~why you picked them and what the World Humor Awards are. I think this will all be great fun. Robin Schwartzman: Okay. Looking [00:01:00] forward to it. Daryl Cagle: Oh, very good. So Marco, let's start off with you, Marco de Angelis: ~Marco. This is, this is, this is ~a cartoon from Not, ~uh, ~from the World Humor Award is from, other publications and, ~uh, ~exhibition around the world. won ~the, the ~first prize in, ~uh, uh, ~San Antonio de Los Banos in Cuba. Oh. This year There's a exhibition I won ~the, the ~Grand Prix, and the first prize in the free section is ~a, ~a big success. And ~the, ~this is, I think, ~uh, the, the, the ~one of the most, important problem of our society and this history, the cancel culture, ~the, the ~politically correct, ~uh, ~the negation of ~the, the, the ~freedom ~of, of, ~of south Daryl Cagle: people with no good sense, rejecting good sense. Marco de Angelis: But I, I think, look at, ~at the, the ~actual society, that, ~uh, ~were many people without, ~uh, uh, ~brain symbolically, of course. ~Uh,~ Daryl Cagle: Marco, I should say. ~Uh, ~he has won 160 awards around the world at competitions, which is really [00:02:00] pretty darn impressive. And he was a juror in the humor in comics category in Italy this year at the World Humor Awards. And I'm just showing some of his, award winners from other competitions. He's also illustrated tons of children's books and he's been a cartoonist since 1975. So, ~uh, ~great pleasure to have you here, Marco, and great pleasure to have you join Cagle Cartoons, Marco de Angelis: This won the Golden Palm and, ~uh, ~in a period, ~uh, ~of the, the Yugoslav War with Bosnia and Kosovo and Serbia. And, ~uh, ~at the situation, ~uh, ~we can see that is the same that, ~uh, ~in those days. Daryl Cagle: This is, ~uh, ~this is also an award winner, Marco de Angelis: No, in, ~um, ~the international Salon of Bertiga (France) was, ~uh, ~held for, ~uh, ~for 50 years from ~uh, ~19, ~uh, uh, ~54. And, ~uh, ~was the first exhibition in the world about humor, gag and editorial cartoons about also. Humor books [00:03:00] or also humor literature, humor comics. And, ~uh, ~ Golden Palm was awarded, Daryl Cagle: ~uh, ~ Marco de Angelis: with the Golden Palm, ~uh, ~. And, ~uh, ~is, ~uh, ~I think in my career, this, ~uh, ~is, ~uh, ~an important moment. Daryl Cagle: Well, congratulations on this one, Marco. That's a great cartoon. We need for you to upload these wonderful oldies to our archive. So the American newspapers see them now that you've joined. Marco de Angelis: But, I published them from, ~uh, ~50 years, from 19 and 75. then I have a thousand and thousand of cartoons, editorial cartoons. Also, gag cartoons, illustration for, ~uh, ~children's books or for magazines or daily newspaper. I am a also professional journalist. Then for the newspapers, I published the articles, but, ~uh, ~every day, ~uh, uh, uh, ~an editorial cartoons. Daryl Cagle: Marco, you're a Treasure. This one won the Hurriyet competition in Turkey, Marco de Angelis: in Turkey Aydin Dogan is, ~uh, ~[00:04:00] now is, ~uh, ~the Oscar of cartooning, and it is the first prize in, nine years ago. I won the first prize also in, ~uh, ~in, ~uh, ~1987. The big problem of, ~uh, ~our times, ~uh, the, the, the, ~the immigration, ~the, the ~refugees, Daryl Cagle: Well, I think this is a great cartoon. I'm very impressed with it. Robin Schwartzman: Yeah. not even just the content, but the, the way it's executed, right, the rendering, the, soft folds and the sheets is really beautiful. Daryl Cagle: It is. And it, shows the desperation versus the just being uncomfortable with this coming in between us in, ~uh, ~such an intimate way. I think that's just a, a very wonderful witty cartoon. Marco de Angelis: My, how about this one? Is Daryl Cagle: this one also an award winner? Marco de Angelis: There is a cartoon over 1985, you think, Daryl Cagle: oh, it should be good forever. Marco de Angelis: The same situation in, it's a very dramatic, very dramatic, but, ~uh, ~I, I, my choice was to realize, cartoons without words only, the, the images, only the [00:05:00] graphic, a graphic comment with, ~um, ~surreal message, ~uh, uh, ~with, ~uh, uh, ~using, using the paradox, the serial situation, the metaphor. Daryl Cagle: Well, this is a great cartoon. We call cartoons like this, evergreens, because they never get old and you can always, ~uh, uh, ~use them forever. And, ~uh, ~I think you've got a lot of these that you need to upload to us. So tell us about this one. They're trading brains and I think, ~uh, uh, uh, ~some, ~uh, ~sometime the, the humor, the satire is really prescient because also this, this is, ~uh, ~I was published on ~the, the, uh, ~the, the American, ~uh, uh, ~digest in, ~uh, ~1985 or, or in 87 then many, many years ago. I love, ~uh, ~science fiction. Then I think also as a cartoonist, I look ahead to the future. then it is, ~uh, ~the, the future that I think, ~uh, ~for the humanity. But this is now real. Robin Schwartzman: I was just going to say this is no longer the future. This is quite, quite relevant Daryl Cagle: [00:06:00] this is one, ~uh, ~that, ~uh, ~you uploaded for the syndicate, and I think this is great. Marco de Angelis: Another situation about the immigration, ~uh, ~the, the two worlds, ~you know, ~the, the desperation of workers and the refugees and migrants and the tranquility of the normal family of the western, ~uh, ~countries. Daryl Cagle: This one is just, ~uh, ~a lovely composition. Marco de Angelis: It is forever. The title is forever. ~Uh, ~also this, because the, the situation is the same from, ~uh, ~dozens of years from farmer, from ~uh, uh, ~years and years. the pea is also blocked in this bowl of, glass. Daryl Cagle: Marco, you are just brilliant and I'm delighted to have you join us. And I'm gonna introduce Robin. Marco de Angelis: Wonderful. Robin Schwartzman: Okay. Robin is the president of ISCA, the International Society of Caricature Artists, and they are a co-sponsor of the World Humor Awards that we're just about to, ~uh, ~show you. And she was on the jury for the caricature [00:07:00] awards, one of the two caricature awards, and she teaches art at the University of Minnesota. And welcome Robin. We will, ~uh, ~show a bunch of your stuff. Thank you. Mine's a little less, ~um, ~heady and a little more playful, but you know, such as sometimes the caricature world. Daryl Cagle: I think your stuff is great. I think Macaulay Culkin's teeth just, ~uh, ~made me laugh out loud. I don't think, ~uh, ~cartoonist. Pay enough attention to teeth because teeth are so interesting and expressive and really, ~uh, uh, ~really could define a person without your having thought about them. And, ~uh, ~ Robin Schwartzman: absolutely. Yeah. Daryl Cagle: With Macaulay Culkin there, I think a great example of that. Robin Schwartzman: I also just love contrast between characters and, and shapes and, and when you do these kind of group compositions, you can really play on the kind of hotdog versus hamburger shapes in the, the breadth of, of human heads. So, Daryl Cagle: very good. So here's the Addams family and, ~uh, ~this is, ~uh, ~just great stuff. Denzel Washington. Robin Schwartzman: Mm-hmm. This one, ~um, ~was one that I [00:08:00] noodled with for about. 10 hours to get a likeness. I was happy with, and I sort of settled on this one and said, okay, I'm done. And wasn't sure about it. And then when I put it out into the world of social media, it got such a overwhelmingly positive response from people in a way I wasn't expecting. And so it just goes to show that sometimes the drawings that you're not sure about the audience receives quite differently. And so it's grown on me over time. Daryl Cagle: Well, his expression is very good and his looking out of the frame is provocative. His looking to the right is provocative because you expect a cartoon to read from left to right and he's looking in the wrong direction. So that, you know, that is a little bit abrasive and ~uh, uh, ~it's just, ~uh, ~it's all very nice and, ~uh, ~provocative in a subtle way. So I, very good. ~Uh, ~and who is this? Robin Schwartzman: This is, ~uh, ~the artist Basquiat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who's a, well-known painter. And, ~um, ~yeah, just really playing on those, the weight of [00:09:00] the hands. ~Um, ~very inspired by Hirschfeld, obviously here. Daryl Cagle: We love Hirschfeld. So tell us about your Hirschfeld inspiration. Robin Schwartzman: When I was a kid, my grandparents lived in Connecticut and they, had volunteered for the New Haven Schubert Theater. And so they had this poster hanging in the basement outside of their laundry room that was from a, a play at the New Haven, Schubert Theater. And it was what I would later come to realize, ~uh, ~drawings of hirschfeld. But when I was a kid, I didn't know any of that. I would just stare at this poster and be mesmerized it was cartoons but not the same kind of cartoons I had seen in animations or in the newspapers. I knew something was different about it. And so I absorbed I think a lot of that at a very young age. And then later was able to identify who that artist was and then study his work. ~Uh, ~well, we all, we all miss Intensity Daryl Cagle: first film. He was, ~uh, ~he was a great influence for cartooning. And, ~uh, ~tell us about this one. [00:10:00] Robin Schwartzman: Yeah, this is just a fun little Ted Danson and, ~uh, ~just playing around. I typically draw in black and white or minimal, ~um, ~colors or spot colors. And so this one was just a little bit fun to play with some more blocks of shades to Daryl Cagle: Very good Robin Schwartzman: to contrast against the line work. Yeah. Daryl Cagle: there's AOC Do you wanna tell us a little bit I about ISCA and what you do with them and what ISCA is? Robin Schwartzman: Yeah. The International Society of Caricature Artists is a nonprofit trade organization dedicated to celebrating the art and artists of caricature around the globe. we have been around for 34 years, so this November we'll be having our 34th annual conference and competition, which we do annually. And our conference is the biggest gathering of caricature artists in the world and is kind of known as the Olympics of caricature. We've got, ~uh, ~a lot of competitions and a big awards banquet at the end. And so if you're a [00:11:00] caricature artist, ~you know, ~it's kind of one of the main places you can really. Have your work, ~um, ~highlighted and celebrated. But in addition to that, we have guest speakers. There's lots of networking and comradery, so it's a really great place to kind of meet your heroes and be inspired and feel the energy of the room. but beyond the conference, we do things, ~um, ~throughout the year we have an annual printed compendium and, ~um, ~a member exclusive blog. So we have tutorials and interviews year round and, and host, ~um, ~virtual drawing sessions. And so, yeah, if you're a caricature artist and wanna learn more, even if you're just getting started or passionate about the art form, I highly recommend joining ISCA. Daryl Cagle: Excellent. So it took this long and now we're going to get to all the award winners from the World Humor Awards. Marco, you won an award with this one at the World Humor Awards. Tell us about this, Marco de Angelis: this, ~the, the ~two phases of the world. ~The, the, the ~rich countries, the rich food and the poor, poverty of ~the, the, the ~[00:12:00] south of the world different division of the economies. Daryl Cagle: I think it's great to see a hamburger representing all of the Western world rather than just America. And, ~uh, ~very good for you to, to give that equal opportunity, ~uh, ~description to the hamburger. Marco de Angelis: The big burger, ~uh, ~represent, represent, ~uh, ~I think ~the, the, the, the, the, the, the ~food of ~the ~all the rich, societies. No, very, very fast and, and smart. ~Uh, but, uh, but, uh, uh, ~on the back of ~the, the, the, the, the, the, the ~big burger there is an economy, poor and economy. Daryl Cagle: Very good. Now, this was the grand prize winner in the humor in comics, division. Can you tell us about this one? ~Uh. ~ Marco de Angelis: Okay, this is, ~uh, the, uh, ~the other cartoon is, ~uh, ~was, ~uh, ~out of, of contest of course, because, ~uh, ~I am member, of the jury, ~uh, ~is ~the, the ~first prize of in World Humor awards of, ~uh, ~this here, the 10th edition is, ~uh, ~a sula from Albania and, ~uh, ~Agim Sulaj from Albania. Agim Sulaj from Albania, yes. Is a famous cartoonist, ~uh, ~that, ~uh, ~won all other prizes, ~uh, ~[00:13:00] also in award humor awards, ~uh, ~some years ago, won the third prize and, ~uh, ~did that ~the, the ~theme of this, ~uh, ~year was, ~uh, ~about ~the, the, the ~economy, the poverty, and ~the, the ~richness. Daryl Cagle: How the money just goes through the poor and back to the rich. So Marco de Angelis: different, ~the, the ~differences in the society. Daryl Cagle: Very good. Now this was the Golden Trophy, and here is the Bronze trophy by Angel Boligan from Mexico, who is a, an excellent Cagle Cartoonist. Marco de Angelis: Yes, Angel Boligan by Mexico, and this is also, ~uh, uh, ~, the Golden Prize with Ramses Morales. From, ~uh, ~Cuba. Daryl Cagle: Well, I think this is just a brilliant cartoon. You know, men get credit for making the world go round, but it's really women that are lifting the weight of making the world go round. And he's done that in a subtle way, and he's got the woman obscured, so it's clear that she's not getting credit. This is just a very lovely and, ~uh, ~for something so, [00:14:00] bold, surprisingly subtle way of presenting something so bold. I think it's just a beautiful cartoon. Marco de Angelis: I think there is a very interesting, and this exhibition, but also other contest is the difference, ~uh, ~style of, ~uh, ~the, artist to finding the idea to send a, a graphic comment about, ~uh.~ ~Uh, ~some argument. The, ~uh, ~comment about, the society, the richness and the poverty. Angel Boligan look to the, the report, ~uh, uh, ~between, ~uh, ~men and, ~uh, ~women and the theme of the cartoons and comics. ~Um.~ I am sorry. Robin Schwartzman: As the world turns, Daryl Cagle: as the world turns is the theme of, so, ~uh, ~we're, we're seeing lots of, ~uh, ~images of the world, Robin Schwartzman: I should say, how the world turns, Daryl Cagle: how the world turns. I've got it. Marco de Angelis: How the world turn. Daryl Cagle: So, how the world turns is the theme of this, ~uh, uh, ~portion of the competition. And, ~uh, ~that's why you see lots of worlds in turning Marco de Angelis: how the world turns, but has [00:15:00] many, ~uh, ~many, many significance. this is the silver, ~uh, ~ Daryl Cagle: silver trophy, Constantin Kazanchev from Ukraine. Hi, I want to remind everybody to subscribe to our Cagle.com free daily newsletter. It gives you the top three cartoons that editors have, printed all across the USA that day. And, we also have a premium newsletter and that costs $6 a month, and with that you get. All the frigging cartoons. Even all those cartoons that timid editors don't want to see the, the stuff that's offensive to grandma, that doesn't make it into the daily newspaper. All those Trump cartoons that are never in the most popular cartoons. So get it. Get it now. Thank you. Workers and all the powerful elite are supported by, ~uh, ~lies. All by lies. So, ~uh, ~tell us about this one. Why did you select this one? You were on this jury. Marco de Angelis: Well, this is, ~uh, ~do, do you the, the, the [00:16:00] Pinocchio is, ~uh, uh, ~the, the icon of the lies, ~you know, ~represent the lies in the society, the lies in the world of work over religion, over the, the policy. Robin Schwartzman: This one also makes a how, how Marco de Angelis: the, how the word turn. Robin Schwartzman: I like this one 'cause it also references the famous photos of the lunch workers in New York on top of the skyscraper, if you can remember that, where they're all sitting on the, the beam kind of floating over the city. And so it's a little precarious. So there's a lot of interesting, references in this one working together. Daryl Cagle: That's great. I missed that one. Okay. This one is by Ramses Morales Isquierdo from Cuba. Marco de Angelis: Yes, exactly. With, with Boligan is also, a good message. ~Uh, ~but simple but very strong. ~Uh, ~ the difference from the south and the north of the, the world. Daryl Cagle: I, I should say I went to the, ~uh, ~competition, ~uh, ~the exhibition this year and, ~uh, ~it was great fun. It's in the Parma [00:17:00] area of Italy, which is not where you think to go as an American tourist is where Parmesan cheese and Parma ham come from. And it was just, ~uh, ~very charming and full of castles. And, ~uh, uh, ~I had a wonderful time and, ~uh, ~I got to meet both of you and I made lots of new friends and, ~uh, ~so I'm, I'm a big fan of World Humor Awards. Now, This is, ~uh, ~one that I drew, ~uh, ~that won an award in this contest. And, ~uh, ~thank you very much for that and for inviting me. And I had a, I had a great time. ~Um, ~ Marco de Angelis: Your cartoon? Daryl Cagle: Yeah, that was my cartoon. Enough of that. They see me all the time on this podcast. So, ~uh, ~tell us. He's Marco de Angelis: also there. He was awarded, eh, we have a Daryl Cagle: Yes. And this is the other what his name award that I did. Lapidus Excellence Trophy by Fabio Marco de Angelis: Fabio Finocchioli. Also this, ~uh, uh, ~the cartoons of, ~uh, ~special prize. Daryl Cagle: Well, very good. So Robin, we've gotten up to, ~uh, ~your caricature category. This one is by [00:18:00] Olivarez Lindsay from Spain as the first prize in the ISCA section. Tell us about this. Robin Schwartzman: Yeah, so this year we, ~um, ~had our inaugural partnership with the World Humor Awards. By we, I mean, ISCA, where we had a special, ~um, ~separate category called the ISCA World Humor Awards, where we invited our members, our, professional ISCA members to submit to the, ~um, ~World Humor Awards. And this year, the World Humor Awards always provides a list of six different subjects that the artists can choose from, and then they can draw and submit up to two caricatures Daryl Cagle: subjects, meaning people? Robin Schwartzman: People, correct. So this year it was, I'm gonna pronounce some of these names incorrectly, so I apologize, but Elon Musk was one of them. ~Um, ~Georgia Maloney, the, ~uh, ~prime Minister of Italy, Tadej Pogač ar, ~uh, ~I'm not pronouncing that correctly, but he is a Slovenian cyclist. And then Lucia, Daryl Cagle: a Slovenian cyclist. Robin Schwartzman: Yes. ~Um, ~ and then Lucia Reer, Daryl Cagle: that's, to me, that strikes me as very obscure. Robin Schwartzman: Yeah. Lucia Rijker, who's a Dutch boxer, [00:19:00] and then, ~uh, ~Tim Roth, an English actor, and Whoopi Goldberg, ~uh, ~the American actress. So those were the subjects. And so for the ISCA World Humor Award, ISCA put together a separate jury of three former Golden Nosey winners. And the Golden Nosey in the world of ISCA is like the Academy Award. It's the creme de la creme that makes you the caricature artist of the year. So our jury was composed of Daniel Stieglitz, who is a German caricature artist, Hitomi Ishihara, who's a Japanese caricature artist, and Kev Jackson, who's an American caricature artist. And so the three of them looked at all of the submissions from our members. Went through the jury process and picked the, a top three, a gold, ~uh, ~silver and a bronze. So Lindsay's piece, ~um, ~of Elon Musk was our, big gold winner for the ISCA World Humor Awards this year. Daryl Cagle: Well, I think this is a great one, and ~uh, ~his mouth makes me laugh. So this is the Slovenian cyclist? Robin Schwartzman: Yep. And this is by Ray Gorlin. And Ray is actually a caricature artist based here in Minnesota where I'm located. [00:20:00] So, that was exciting. But yeah, really just compelling, I think like what I'd call a body situation here. ~Um, ~turning the cyclist legs into the bicycle I think was really, really clever. Daryl Cagle: Excellent. And tell us about this one. Yeah, this is your third place winner. Robin Schwartzman: This is the third place, and this is by Svetlana Novikova, who's based in Austin, Texas. And this is a version of Whoopi Goldberg. And Svetlana is really known for, extreme exaggeration and kind of reducing or taking out features and exaggerating others. Daryl Cagle: Do think, do you think Whoopi has, buck teeth? Robin Schwartzman: you know, it's, it's exaggerated, but I can definitely tell the likeness and the birds nester. I can, Daryl Cagle: I can certainly see the likeness too. It it, whether she had buck teeth or not even, that doesn't seem to matter even though, ~uh, ~it's a main focus of the thing. And, ~uh, ~is there a story behind the blue eggs in her hair? Robin Schwartzman: if there is, I don't know the reference, but I was just guess getting the, ~um, ~the bird's nest vibes, [00:21:00] so. Okay. There might be something that she was in that referred to, ~um, ~blue eggs, but that, I don't know. Daryl Cagle: Well, very good. Now tell us about this one. This is, the Golden Trophy. Now this is like a third jury that selected another set of caricature artists. Is that right? Robin? Robin Schwartzman: The juror for the main World Humor Awards juried both the comics and the caricature section. And so there was sort of two main juries, the World Humor Award proper, and then the ISCA World Humor Award, which is a separate jury. Marco de Angelis: So Marco, you were the juror for this grand prize winner in the caricature category? Yes. Yes. ~Uh, ~we received a lot of, ~uh, ~caricature, And, ~uh, ~this is, ~uh. Uh, ~effectively the, the, most impressive in the landscape of the, the participation, and Daryl Cagle: I should say the, this is Georgia Meloni, who is Marco de Angelis: Georgia Meloni, Prime Minister Italy, ~uh, ~prime Minister. And, ~uh, ~Marilyn Ardi is, ~uh, ~the very clever artist, Italian artist, ~uh, ~interpreted, ~uh, ~very, [00:22:00] very, very well. The, the, the person also the spirit of the George Meloni body with the, the. walking is, ~uh, ~is very interesting. Daryl Cagle: I should say. Marilena is just a, a brilliant cartoonist and, ~uh, ~I've always been very impressed with her. and also you see the barbed wire on, ~uh, ~Georgia Meloni clothes, Georgia Meloni's known for, very much trying to keep the migrants out of Italy. so the reason for the barbed wire, ~uh, ~ Marco de Angelis: okay. As, as, ~uh, ~a strong message about the policy of, ~uh, ~Georgia Meloni, It was published, ~uh, uh, ~on, ~uh, uh, uh, ~daily newspaper and, ~uh, ~other, other publication. And I think, ~uh,~ Daryl Cagle: ~ ~it is, it's on the cover of Very nice catalog. Yes. I think it's very nice catalog. I've gotta say also. Okay. ~Uh, ~now tell me about this one. This one is, ~uh,~ Marco de Angelis: ~ ~I think this is one o of the most, ~uh, ~clever, ~uh, ~caries in the world. ~Uh, uh, ~Moine. Daryl Cagle: [00:23:00] Philippe Moine Marco de Angelis: is very, very, very beautiful. ~Uh, ~this, this, ~uh, ~brilliant French is very impressive. Daryl Cagle: And this is the British actor Tim Roth, who. I don't know who this guy is, British actor Tim Roth, but it looks just like him. Robin Schwartzman: Yeah, I would say that, ~um, ~Monsieur Moine ~um, ~Moine skill is really in, in this rendering, right, this, ~um, ~I dunno if I'd call it hyper realistic, but it definitely leans more towards the realistic, but just the technique used to render the skin and, and every single little hair and the fabric, right? It's very meticulous and very skillful. Daryl Cagle: Well, he is just a brilliant and, ~uh, ~nice guy. So this one. Marco de Angelis: The style is very different and, ~uh, ~be because ma many ma many participants, ~uh, uh, ~only few participants, ~uh, uh, ~try to, to, ~uh, ~a good, ~uh, ~caricature of, ~uh, uh, ~Elon Musk or Meloni, for example. This is one, one of [00:24:00] the best caricature of a Musk, ~uh, ~in the. It Daryl Cagle: is a, a great caricature. Can you tell me what M-W-T-S-T-P-D on the, the license plate means? Marco de Angelis: I don't know. Robin Schwartzman: My only guess is ~like, um, ~I am with stupid. Daryl Cagle: I am with stupid. Yes. That must be, that's very good. Robin Schwartzman: Or something. We'll, we'll have to ask Theodosis on that one, but I, yeah. I love the windup toy car here. And, ~um, ~yeah, Theodosis is just a, a master at this pencil hatching style. Daryl Cagle: He's the judge. Robin Schwartzman: Yes. Yes, Daryl Cagle: I like him. He was very good Marco de Angelis: so this is Mario Magnati, Italy and, ~uh, ~special prize, ~uh, ~Rino Montanari. And, ~uh, ~is, ~uh, ~he won the first prize some years ago and, ~uh, ~he is also very, good, ~uh, ~caricaturist with, ~uh, ~very, very quickly. Daryl Cagle: So this is, ~uh, ~Ares from Cuba and, ~uh, ~ This is really ~a, ~a charming cartoon. I, it's something that could be interpreted in lots of different ways. Marco de Angelis: [00:25:00] Oh, but there is, ~uh, ~his interpretation. It's ~not, ~not precisely ~the, the, the, the, ~the term. But, ~but, uh, another, ~another view of ~the, the, ~the arguments of ~the, the, the, the, ~the world is also ~the, ~the direction ~were, uh, ~is growing the humanity and, ~uh, ~the man, ~uh, ~look, ~uh, ~for the significance for the future, for ~the, ~the real destiny. ~Um,~ Daryl Cagle: very good. So Egil Nyhus from Norway. Marco de Angelis: Norway. This is another, view of the world. Daryl Cagle: This is, ~um, ~ Marco de Angelis: they turns around the world, but the world also turns inside. Robin Schwartzman: I mean, I just, I just see it as ~like ~a humorous take on Yeah. ~Like ~raw, naked, vulnerable, humans running around, chasing each other, making, that's the energy, making the world spin. But, ~um, ~ Daryl Cagle: okay. Robin Schwartzman: Beyond that, I'm not sure. Daryl Cagle: This one is from Tayo Fatunla, who is a Nigerian cartoonist who [00:26:00] lives in London. He's also a Cagle Cartoonist. And, ~uh, ~his cartoons appear in Sub-Saharan West African newspapers. And he's got, ~uh, uh, ~Trump, who I guess is the, ~uh, ~monster abusive spouse abusing liberty. So, ~uh, ~what do you think? Liberty has nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Marco de Angelis: Yeah, this is very impressive. This is, this, the style is a, an American cartoons. Like, but there is, the silhouette of, ~uh, ~of Trump is, ~uh, ~significance. Daryl Cagle: Any comments on this one, Robin? Robin Schwartzman: I mean, poor liberty is in a cold, dark room. We can feel the emotion and the weight, the American flag as the blanket that she's crying into. But yeah, I mean, compositionally, I, I think it's brilliant, ~um, ~the use of negative space and yeah, obviously very weighty, relevant message. So, Daryl Cagle: so here we have Marco de Angelis: Hicabi, ~uh, ~is a famous, ~uh, ~cartoonist in Turkey. And, ~uh, ~one. He won in the past. ~Uh, ~in other exhibitions, ~uh, ~count as, ~uh, ~many prizes [00:27:00] and, ~uh, ~is also another interpretation. Daryl Cagle: Well, this is interesting. So, ~uh, ~ Marco de Angelis: some spiritual, ~uh, ~some, ~uh, ~scientific, Daryl Cagle: the curse of original sin, also falls upon science. So I'm not entirely getting the point. Maybe you have some insight on this. How does, ~uh, ~the biblical curse of original sin impact Isaac Newton? You know, sometimes these cartoons, look very, Deep and thoughtful, but when I try to figure 'em out, I have no idea what they mean and, ~uh, uh, ~this falls into that category for me. Marco de Angelis: ~Uh, ~I don't know. I don't understand. Sorry. Daryl Cagle: Alright, very good. Um, this is from Kevin Kallagher, "Kal," American cartoonist. You've got the World. The World says, I long for the Cold War when all that concerned me was nuclear annihilation. And there you have all of these other great issues, ~uh, ~climate change, war pandemics, and artificial intelligence pushing back the door on [00:28:00] the poor world. ~Um, ~I think this is very nice, drawn for The Economist. Marco de Angelis: Yes, but do you know Kal very well? And, ~uh, ~ Daryl Cagle: Kal is a convention friend. Marco de Angelis: A good, good idea. Very, very actual. And also we, we prefer, ~uh, ~the, the, in the jury, in the word humor, words prefer the, the cartoons without, ~uh, ~words. But, ~uh, ~this, this idea is very nice. ~Uh, ~then we selected. Well, I think this cartoon could have been just as good without the words. You know, I appreciate the point about the Cold War and nuclear annihilation not being pushing on the door at this moment, but it really kind of is. He might have just added Mr H-Bomb to, ~uh, ~push on the door as well. ~Um, ~but it's good. Robin Schwartzman: I agree. The text could have been removed and it could have been equally as powerful of a message. Daryl Cagle: This one is by Luc Vernimmen from Belgium, and I think this is a great cartoon. Tell us about this one, Marco. Marco de Angelis: Well, this is, Vernimmen is also [00:29:00] well known, and this is a good idea , because this is real. Daryl Cagle: The money pushes back the upper classes, the money classes push back and the world goes nowhere. Robin Schwartzman: I Daryl Cagle: think Marco de Angelis: this one interesting. I think that's a great cartoon. I think also the people, disparate people that push on the world. Daryl Cagle: You had a comment, Robin? Robin Schwartzman: Yeah, I mean this one's interesting because it's using some collage element, right? , The money it looks like to me, like it's, ~um, ~pulled from like a photo of money and not drawn. And I haven't seen that in a lot of the other entries. Marco de Angelis: This is also another Italian cartoonist, Mauro Talarico, ~uh, uh, ~was, ~uh, ~selected, was a finalist. ~Uh, ~is another idea about the war and the poor people, and the, this, is a portrait, ~uh, ~of our time. I think Daryl Cagle: it's the callous, uncaring, treatment by, ~uh, ~war of, ~uh, ~the people in the world who suffer. I think this is a very nice cartoon. Marco de Angelis: Very, very nice. Very, yes, [00:30:00] Yeah, Arico is a good, ~uh, ~cartoonist. He and also Illustrator. He also is a teacher in a humor comics school is, is very, is also was awarded summer, you ago in award humor awards. ~Uh, ~we are, ~uh, ~in the jury of the World Humor Awards, so we are 10 me members of the jury. And is a ~very, very, very ~difficult to, to select, the best, ~uh, ~few best cartoons, from the, ~the, the, uh, ~a lot of participants and, ~uh, ~participants of, ~uh, uh, ~it all, ~uh, ~I told you that, ~uh, the, ~the, we invited, only the, a selected number of cartoonists in the world, but they are, hundreds and arrive a lot of, ~uh, ~very good, ~uh, ~works. This is Neils Bo Bojesen and from Denmark is a very big cartoonist and, ~uh, ~well known in the world. And, ~uh. ~ Daryl Cagle: And, ~uh, ~Trump. Trump is a dark shadow on the world. Marco de Angelis: He is ~very, very, ~he is, ~uh, ~another [00:31:00] Italian cartoonist and also, ~uh, ~by ~the, the, ~the, he, think to the hand of, of God from the Sistine Chapelle. Daryl Cagle: Mm-hmm. Marco de Angelis: And, ~uh, ~with the, I don't know the name of ~the, the, ~the, that's a top the game. Okay. Okay. And Israel also is with ~the, ~the hurt. Just about to spin the top in, in this. Luxembourg also. Yes. And the world. This is ~the, ~the destiny. Daryl Cagle: I have seen probably a hundred cartoons of the world as a bomb. but this is a nice one. Marco de Angelis: This is from Brazil. Daryl Cagle: So is she dreaming of when the tree, or is she the tree that's grown up Marco de Angelis: also? ~The, ~the also this, ~uh, ~with a shadow, but another shadow is not Trump for the world, but is the, is a message of hope. I think, Daryl Cagle: A message of hope. Marco de Angelis: The little Okay, water, ~um, ~ Robin Schwartzman: that she, she is the [00:32:00] growth that one day will become the watering of the world. Marco de Angelis: Well, there are, there are few prizes, but prize, ~uh, ~for example, the Lepidus excellent trophy, ~uh, ~from, ~uh, ~Finnocchioli. And, ~uh, ~also, ~uh, ~Daryl Cagle, ~uh, ~and the Lepidus will say, so the, ~uh, ~the main sponsor of the, the, the exhibition. But, but the award awards has also a literary prize every year, to a different writer, famous writer, or. humor, humoristic writer or other that realize the, some, ~uh, ~humor books and the, the prize the special prize for the, the comics. Daryl Cagle: Well, very good. Do either of you have any last words? Robin Schwartzman: I'll just say that I think it's great that these kinds of events and competitions take place because so often as artists, we work alone in our studios and we're very focused on the task at hand. And so these are an opportunity not only for us to [00:33:00] have the work celebrated and amplified, but then for a group of artists to get to come together and celebrate each other. So I think it's a, a wonderful annual event. Daryl Cagle: It was a wonderful event, and thank you for all you do, Marco. And thank you Robin, both jurors at the event. Marco de Angelis: Yes, it was, ~eh, it, uh, ~this is a wonderful meeting for together to speak about our works, but also, about what humor awards to, to tell about, ~uh, ~this international meeting. the spirit of humor and the satire and, ~uh, ~over the friendship, I think is the most important prize is. For, for us. Daryl Cagle: I made lots of great friends at this thing, and thank you so much. And, subscribe to our daily newsletter, cagle.com/subscribe, which is just a wonderful thing. And, our premium newsletter where you get all the cartoons that timid editors didn't wanna print -- everything, you get everything with the premium newsletter, only $6 a month. What a deal. Thank you for joining us, and ~uh, ~thank you [00:34:00] again, ~uh, ~Robin and Marco. This was lots of fun. Marco de Angelis: Thank you. Okay, greetings from Italy. Daryl Cagle: Very good. Bye-bye. Everybody come back for the next Caglecast. 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