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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[...]