Saturday, February 15, 2014

ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΓΕΛΟΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ 2013 Rodrigo de Matos

Portuguese cartoonist Rodrigo de Matos has won the “Press Cartoon Europe Grand Prix” with a cartoon published in Expresso, a Lisbon based weekly.
The winning cartoon, published in November of 2013, takes on football and the economic crisis in Portugal. The piece depicts a beggar holding a ladled with a football, in reference to the economic crisis in Portugal and the country’s qualifying for World Cup finals in Brazil.
“Among the growing poverty and the hard austerity measures, the people of Portugal have found a reason to smile: the national football team qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, 2014,” the cartoon reads.
The competition was sponsored by Press Cartoon Belgium to distinguish the best cartoons published in newspapers, magazines and websites based in Europe.
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