Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

Alessandro Gatto, from Italy, is the winner of the Grand Prize of the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, with a work named "Window" (Top). Gatto already had in 2012 won the grand prize of this international contest.



The Second Prize, entitled "Safe Light" (Above) is from Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek (Poland) and the Third Prize named "Lantern" is from the Russian Andrei Popov (Below).



This year's edition included two caricature special awards, in tribute to the Literature Nobel Prize laureate novelist Ernest Hemingway and the football player Cristiano Ronaldo. The winners were, respectively,


Dálcio Machado from Brazil, and

Grondziel Krzysztof, from Poland.

The high quality of the works led the international jury to give nineteen Honourable Mentions to artists from different countries: Belgium (two), Brazil (three), Croatia (two), Spain, France, Iran (three), Poland, Portugal (three), Romania and Russia (two).