The Karikaturmuseum Krems in Austria has announced the call for the SOKOL Prize for digital caricature, critical drawing and satire, the international award it administers with the state of Lower Austria. Artists worldwide are invited to submit portfolios of caricatures and satirical graphics between 1 June and 31 December 2026. Founded in 2018 and awarded every four to five years, the prize positions itself as a survey of contemporary positions at the intersection of drawing, satire and social critique. A new emphasis this cycle falls on works that confront artificial intelligence — a recognition that the caricaturist's traditional targets now include the image-generating systems reshaping public visual culture. The main category honours a lifetime's achievement or an exceptional body of work in caricature, weighing draughtsmanship alongside satirical bite and political statement, with an eye to traditionally executed work in pencil, ink or acrylic. The emphasis, in the organisers' framing, is on artists with a clear stance whose work is uncomfortable, generates friction and is carried by large satirical ideas. The winners will be celebrated at a gala in July 2027, after which the awarded works will be exhibited at the Karikaturmuseum Krems through July 2028. The accompanying show is conceived as a stocktaking of current caricatural strategies amid digitalisation, publicity and satire — a field the prize argues deserves institutional weight. The prize's five-year rhythm is deliberate: satire needs distance to be judged, and caricature's targets shift faster than annual awards can track. By the time the gala convenes in July 2027, the submissions window will have captured a full half-year of image-making under the pressure of generative AI — exactly the archive the museum hopes to exhibit.