Cultural Association “Tapirulan”, with the sponsorship of “Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza” and “Associazione Illustratori”, is proud to announce the fifth edition of the contest for illustrators. Purpose of the competition is to select the thirty authors to be included in the exhibition «Gli illustratori di Tapirulan» (The illustrators of Tapirulan), to be held in Cremona from January 9th 2010 to January 24th. After Tony Wol, Milo Manara and Silver, jury is now directed by another famous cartoonist: Sergio Toppi. all thirty illustrations selected by the jury will be published on the Calendar of year 2010, which is, as well, the catalogue of the exhibition. Twelve images will be shown in full page, one per month, and eighteen more will be published in appendix. During the inauguration of the exhibition - January 9th 2010 – the first prize of 1000 Euro will be awarded to the winner. An additional prize of 300 Euro will be awarded to the author of the illustration which got most votes by users of the site www.tapirulan.it. 
You can participate to the contest by sending your work in square format (minimum size 25x25 cm, maximum 40x40 cm) by October 23rd 2009 - You can as well participate by sending digital images by drawing up the specific website form www.tapirulan.it/concorso-calendario, where you can also find all the information and details about the competition itself. The theme is "It’s sheer madness". You can be inspired by episodes, characters, real or imaginary situations that relate to something incredible, absurd, grotesque, senseless, exaggerated, bizarre... In short, anything that makes you say: "it’s sheer madness!"