Lubomir Kotrha, a 54-year-old cartoonist from Slovakia, won the ¥2 million Grand Prize at the 26th Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest for a work in which a man opens a box with a wine sticker, only to find that the box contains, not wine, but hundreds of wine stickers. [More...]

By Taira Hara

Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun

This year's Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest was most enjoyable. I have attended many contests as a judge, but had never before cracked up laughing when judging cartoons. [More...]