The Fritzy Gallery in Mali Lošinj is hosting an international cartoon exhibition under the title “The BEST of OSKARfest”.

OSKARfest, the international cartoon festival which was held during summer 2008 and 2009 in Osor Community Centre, has succeeded in bringing together an enviable number of over sixty authors-cartoonists from Croatia and the world (Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia).
A special quality of the OSKARfest has been a jury made up only of public-visitors to select the best cartoon by means of voting paper, which represents a rarity even on a world’s scale.
In the Fritzy Gallery the visitors can have an opportunity to see the selection of the very best cartoons from the previous two OSKARfests dedicated to Island and Love on the Island themes.

In the preface to the exhibition catalogue Janko Bučar says the following: “Since the old times it has been known that laughter connects people. Not only connects, but it makes everyone relaxed and friendly, when other things that happen to us in our lives fall into oblivion, things which are bad or we just consider them as such. This laughter is primarily provoked by some funny experience, a joke or a witty remark; cartoons represent a special way of doing the same by means of drawing as a part of humorous expression.”

The OSKARfest project has been conceived by cartoonist Dragutin Dado Kovačević from ARTour Association, in collaboration with the Croatian Cartoonist Association, while “The BEST of OSKARfest” exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Lošinj Museum.

The exhibition remains open until May 10, 2010; it can be seen from Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Saturday and Easter Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.