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Last night saw Lucca Comics And Games 2024 in Italy give out their comic book awards, including The Yellow Kid Awards and the Gran Guinigi, among others. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The Yellow Kid Author of the Year Taiyo Matsumoto[...]

Luce is the the Vatican's official mascot for the 2025 Jubilee, which begins on Christmas Eve, and was unveiled by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief organiser of the Holy Year 2025, for Lucca Comics & Games This will be the first comic convention that the Vatican has officially appeared at. Luce from the Vatican Luce, Italian for[...]

One Piece has a strong presence at Lucca Comics & Games this year, as demonstrated by the massive inflatable below With signings and sketches to follow the trading card game panel today, One Piece Nakama – Friends And Enemies with creator of the game, Marcello Bertocchi, as well as Nicola De Gobbis, head of Need[...]

Comic book artist and writer Peach Momoko is at Lucca Comics & Games 2024 this year, either the largest or second largest comics art festival in Europe depending on who you talk to But at Lucca, she is working with Foodmetti celebrating the career of the chef Bruno Barbieri. Which means she has created this cartoon[...]

At the 2024 Lucca Comics & Games Festival, which is just opening right now, they are celebrating the fifty-year career of Yoshitaka Amano ahead of the largest European exhibition of his work, which will open in Milan next month until March next year And he has his work on the cover for the Lucca programme. #gallery-1 { margin:[...]

Cebulski at the Lucca Comics & Games festival in Italy, X-MEN: FOREVER will be a four-issue limited series launching in March where Gillen will build upon the dramatic developments currently unfolding in pages of Immortal X-Men, including the quest for Dominion, the interpersonal conflicts of the Quiet Council, the escape from the White Hot Room, and[...]

This morning, organizers behind Lucca Comics & Games 2023 announced a new set of guests who will be coming to Lucca, Italy, this November The team has brought in many more representatives from the comic books side of things, which includes a number of manga artists and creators as well, to help fill out the[...]

Organizers for Lucca Comics & Games have revealed their initial plans for the 2023 festival, along with the poster art for this year's event This year is the 30th anniversary of Lucca Games, the games section of the event that was added to the original festival all those years ago So to celebrate it, they[...]

A couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to go check out the Lucca Comics & Games 2022 festival in Lucca, Italy, where we spent a few days enjoying the event. Credit: Gavin Sheehan Over the course of a week, we ran through the small Italian village, getting a chance to check out not only all[...]

For the recent Lucca convention in Italy, the Italian licensor published a variant of Metal with a cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Riccardo Burchielli, featuring the band and the Batman Who Laughs. The edition was published as below and in ashcan form The comic has a double-page spread featuring the Dark Dimension Batmen and Lacuna Coil playing alongside[...]

Courtesy of our good friend Guido Sardella who attended Lucca Comics And Games in Italy, we have a look inside the pages of the Batman/Dylan Dog #0 crosoverthat is being sold exclusively at the show  at the Sergio Bonelli Editore stand in Italy, right now, ahead of publishing the full series in 2020. Dylan Dog &[...]

Lucca Comics & Games is one of the largest comic book conventions This year they will be teaming with the Rome-based CArt Gallery for a new exhibition to  run alongside the show – The World of John Buscema: The Art of the Michelangelo of Comics. Not only does that speak to John Buscema's influences but also[...]

Panini Comics Italia used Lucca Comics & Games in Tuscany this weekend to announced a number of new series, including Space Opera. The latest work of Jacopo Paliaga and Eleonora Bruni following their work on Aqualung and Monster Anthology, Space Opera brought out a splash of bright magenta with characters that look both foreign and familiar. The two have crafted a teenage-murder-mystery-drama-surrounding-a[...]

Lucca Comics & Games is a comic con held in Italy It's big How big? Well, for the show two weeks ago, they sold 240,000 tickets with around 400,000 visiting the city for events around the show. Basically, that's two times San Diego That's up from 218,000 and 380,000 last year… Fumettologica broke down some numbers for[...]