18TH INTERNATIONAL CONTEST SNAIL GRAPHIC HUMOR/SPAIN 2026

Theme:Snail

Deadline: April 10th 2026.

RULES 2026

Organized by: Federació de Colles de l'Aplec del Caragol de Lleida (Fecoll) with the collaboration of Humoràlia and the sponsorship of RACC Travel.

1.- Any professional or amateur artist can participate in this contest.

2.- The theme of the contest is the SNAIL.

3.- Participants may submit a maximum of 3 works. The author certifies that the works submitted are original, have not been awar- ded in any other competition and are not the result of artificial intelligence.

4.- The works (only in comic strips) can be made with any pictorial technique, with unique format of A-4 size (210 mm X 297 mm) or proportional.

5.- Works can be without words or, in case of having them, they must be in Catalan, Spa- nish or English.

6.- Only works sent to the email aplec@ aplec.org will be accepted. You can send up to 3 images to that email which must have the format indicated in point 4. We will not accept any work sent by regular mail.

7.- The deadline for works admission ends on April 10th 2026.

8.- The email sent must include, besides the work, the name and surname, address, te- lephone, short curriculum vitae and photo- graph or/and an author's caricature.

9.- The winning work will recieve a single prize of 1,018 euros (amount on which the corresponding tax deduction will be applied); and a trip to Lleida for two people and, if so expressed by the winner, two nights of ac- commodation in the city to attend the award ceremony that will take place on May 22th, 2025, coinciding with the opening of the XLV Aplec del Caragol. It is recommended not to modify the dates of the trip since the ex- penses that any change of the agreed dates will be borne by the winner.

10.- The decision of the jury will be un- appealable.

11.- The Jury will be composed by people re presentig the Fecoll, RACC Travel and Hu moràlia.

12.- The decision of the Jury will be notified to the winner during the last two weeks of April or the first two weeks of May 2026 by electronic mail and it will be published later to websites and social media by Humoràlia and Fecoll (www.aplec.org).

13.- The author of the winning work will have to give the original work in hand on the award ceremony, or by certified mail properly pro tected, to the organization of the contest (if the author cannot come to receive the award in person). In case the work is made, total ly or partially, by digital tools, a copy signed by hand by the author.must be sent. The address of the Federació de Colles de l'Aplec del Caragol is: C/Obradors, 2. 25002 Lleida.

14.- The selected words -with a maximum of 50-chosen by the jury, they will e exhibited in the Fecoll's head office or, if necessary, in other facilities.

15.- The electronic version of the works can be visited on a virtual gallery that will be pu blished afterwards on the websites of Hu moràlia and Fecoll.

16.- The organization reserves the right to spread and reproduce the winning work and the others selected, only during the promo tion of the Aplec and this same contest in fu ture calls, without express permission of the author or authors, and without this represen ting any obligation to the artist.

17.- Participation in the contest implies full acceptance and no reservation of these bases. Any doubt that may arise will be sol ved by the Jury.