Dear Graph Drawers & Network Visualizers! As you may know, the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will take place in Athens, Greece, from September 19 to 21, 2016. As has been tradition since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. I am pleased to announce the contents of this year's contest. Creative Topics For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs that you may draw with full artistic freedom. The first graph represents relations between countries through off-shore companies, as recently revealed in the so-called "Panama papers". The second graph is a family tree of the most popular (according to the internet) ancient Greek gods. In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged both on aesthetic appeal and clarity of displayed structure and information. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.de/contest2016/topics.html Live Challenge Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held during the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year, as last year, the challenge shall focus on minimizing the crossing number in book embeddings. Teams may either draw the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. Remote participation will also be possible. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.de/contest2016/challenge.html Awards Thanks to our generous sponsors, a monetary prize will be awarded to the winner or winning team in four different categories. We are looking forward to your submissions! On behalf of the contest committee, best regards, Maarten Löffler