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------------------------------------ http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/prize/cartoon/27th/cartoon.htm -------------------------------------- The Yomiuri Shimbun Joji Bigo, a 48-year-old pharmacist-cartoonist from Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, won the 2 million yen Grand Prize at the 27th Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest with a cartoon linking modern and prehistoric times. This year's contest--with the theme of "Dance"--attracted 6,347 entries from 70 countries and territories. Contestants in the General Division were permitted to enter the theme section or free section. The contest also included a Junior Division. Of 5,120 entries in the General Division, 3,153 were submitted to the theme section, and 1,967 to the free section. Second place in the General Division went to Hiroyuki Midorikawa, 56, who won the 1.5 million yen Kondo Hidezo Prize, named after the famed late political cartoonist. His work touched on the problem of barriers at railroad crossings blocking the flow of traffic. The two Gold Prize winners won 500,000 yen, the three winners of the Selection Committee's Special Prize each received 200,000 yen, and 13 contestants each collected 100,000 yen for "Excellent" works. Junior Division winners received book coupons. Over the years, the Grand Prize has been awarded 11 times to Japanese contestants, twice to Brazilian, Iranian, Romanian and Thai contestants and once to Yugoslav, Chinese, German, Belgian, Belarussian and Slovak contestants. There was no winner in the 14th contest. This year's prizewinning cartoons will be on display at Kawasaki City Museum in Musashikosugi, Kawasaki, from Feb. 18 to April 23. They can be seen on the Yomiuri Online Web site (http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/prize/cartoon/). === GRAND PRIZE Joji Bigo (Ishikawa) "Dance in a circle 20,000 years ago/Dance for joy 20,000 years later" (Theme section) When I learned I had won the Grand Prize, my first thought was: "You must be kidding." After winning the Gold Prize in the past, I instinctively screamed, "Banzai." But this time, I was struck speechless--It was some time before I could even tell my family. I learned that the likelihood of discovering mammoth tusks increases as Siberia's permafrost melts due to global warming. So I focused my cartoon on an environmental issue by slicing through the strata beyond space and time. --Joji Bigo === Profile Bigo was born in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 1957 and graduated Kyoto Pharmaceutical University in 1980. He owns a pharmacy where he works as a pharmacist. He also works as a cartoonist, mainly drawing caricatures. This is his ninth entry in the Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest. He has won the Gold Prize once and the Excellence Prize twice. === Comment from judge Two spatially different scenes--primitive men dancing around the carcass of mammoth and modern men dancing with joy after discovering the tusks of the mammoth--exist naturally in one frame. Bigo's cartoon is a high-quality creation that illustrates his impressive skills in drawing and composition. --Kunihiko Hisa === Kondo Hidezo Prize Hiroyuki Midorikawa (Tokyo) "Lawless Area" (Free Section) Due to the great support I received from my family and magazine editors, I was able to win the Kondo Hidezo Prize--a prize named after my teacher. As a student, I took Mr. Kondo's class. I was confident my work was amusing, because it depicts a scene at a railroad crossing where the barrier opens for less than one minute every hour. Since I make my living by drawing four-frame cartoons, I still find it difficult to draw one-frame cartoons. However, I'd like to do more of them in future. --Hiroyuki Midorikawa Profile Midorikawa was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1949. He graduated from the Tokyo Design College, a vocational school set up by Kondo and other people. As a professional cartoonist, Midorikawa draws four-frame cartoons and has a regular cartoon strip in a newspaper. He has won prizes in the Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest two times in the past. === Comment from judge By linking increasing crime and shrinking arrest rates with a closed railway crossing barrier, Midorikawa illustrates a modern-day problem--crossings that rarely open. Midorikawa's skill at drawing allows him to evoke laughter from serious themes. His work made me realize how a one-frame cartoon can express so much drama. --Ryotaro Mizuno (Jan. 3, 2006) __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pakarti/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
