National Philately Day - Zerocalcare : 2022

 

2022-Oct-28

National Philately Day stamps designed by Italian cartoonist Zeorcalcare (Michele Rech), featuring the Armadillo and Lady Cocca. The theme of the issue is Return to write (Tornare a scrivere), encouraging younger generations to rediscover the pleasure of handwritten communication.

Captain Harlock : 2019 Italy

2019-Nov-12 Torino Italy

Space Pirate Captain Harlock, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Play Comic from January 1977 to June 1979. The series follows the titular Captain, an outcast who has turned into a space pirate to rebel against Earth's government and humanity's general apathy.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock was adapted into an anime television series in 1978 directed by Rintaro and produced by Toei Animation. An animated film adaptation of the same name was released in 2013.

Mickey Mouse : 1988 Italy

 

1988-Apr-13 Milan Italy

International Comic Festival : 2008 Naples

 

2008-Apr-24 International Comic Festival - Naples

XX Romics Comic Festoval : 2016 Rome

2016-Sep-29 XX Romics - Rome

Cachet: The Mythical Six

Cachet: Captain Fox

Diabolik : postage meters

2008-May-31 Milan

2008-May-23:25 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2009-Jan-30 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2010-Mar-10 Milanofil - Milan

2011-Jan-21:22 - Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2012-Mar-23:25 Milan - Milanofil 2012

2013-Oct-18:20 Kover Kollection - Piacenza

2014-Oct-10:12 Kover Kollection - Piacenza

 

Milan Comics & Games : 2024

2024-May-11:12 Milano Comics & Games, Malpensa Fiere in Busto Arsizio

Poste Italiane, in collaboration with Blu Nautilus and Dada Editore, celebrates the spring edition of Milano Comics & Games with two special cancellations and a stamp collection dedicated to Raffaello , the third in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, following Leonardo and Michelangelo, characters from the science fiction and superhero comic series created in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Milan Comics & Games has become one of the leading international events dedicated to comics, illustrated cinema, visual communication, and intelligent gaming. The event's stated goal is to provide visitors with exciting experiences, including tournaments, gatherings, exhibitions, and community gatherings where they can share interests and have fun.

The cancellations, in horizontal oval format , reproduce the event's logo and a detail of the poster by Andrea Cavaletto, screenwriter and illustrator who collaborates with Italian and foreign publishers and film producers, both underground and mainstream - Malpensafiere News

Poste Italiane - A4-sized folder with 2 flaps containing:

1 envelope; 1 stamped postcard from the thematic series DOP Products – Garlic; 1 postal card with stamp from the thematic series DOP Products – Tomato.

Dedicated to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series

Comicon : 2018 Naples

2018-Apr :May - International Comic Festival - Comicon Naples

Two stylized Pulcinellas, dressed in blue, appear to dance like puppets on the poster for the 2018 Naples International Comics Festival, designed by Lorenzo Mattotti. The Comicon celebrates it's 20^th anniversary and is again held at the Mostra d'Oltremare, from April 28th to May 1st.

 

Romics XVIII International Comic Festival : 2015 Italy

XVIII Romics - 2015 Oct

Romics is an international semiannual comic book, animation, and gaming convention in Rome, Italy. The event takes place over four days, usually during April for the spring edition, and October for the autumn one. Until the twelfth edition in 2012, it was held annually, most often in October. The event is held, for both its editions, in the Rome trade fair district. The first Romics was held 2001-Nov

Diabolik is one of the most popular series in the history of Italian comic. Diabolik was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussan in 1962

Diabolik - Comic Fest : 2013 Piacenza

2023-Jan-25 Kover Kollection - Piacenza 

Forlì Comics & Games : 2022 Italy

2022-Mar-12 Forlì Comic & Games convention postcard with commemorative pictorial postmark. The stamp features the artwork of Zerocalcare and was issued 2022 to celebrate Philately Day.  Forlì Comics and Games, founded in 2011, is the first and most original winter comics convention in Romagna. Forlì features a large market exhibition, fantastic guests, events, comics, games, video games, the legendary cosplay competition, meet & greets, K-pop, and guaranteed fun for four generations!

 

Lucca Comics & Games : 2016 Italy

2016-Oct-28 

Lucca Comics & Gaming is an annual comic book and gaming convention  held in Lucca, Italy. The International Congress of comics was started in 1965, with the first convention being held in Bordighera, Liguria, Italy. In 1966 the convention moved to Lucca. The stamp features art by Michele Rech (Zerocalcare), writer and illustrator of 'The Armadillo Factory', illustrator for the magazine 'Liberazion' and other periodicals. 2014 drew a Marvel variant cover for 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. Rech wrote and directed the Italian adult animation 'Tear Along the Dotted Line'. He did the art for the 2016 Lucca convention

 

Lucca Comics & Games : 1996 Italy

Lucca Comics & Games is an annual comic book and gaming convention in Lucca, Italy, traditionally held at the end of October, in conjunction with All Saints' Day.

The Salone Internazionale dei Comics ("International Congress of Comics") was launched by a Franco-Italian partnership, consisting of Italians Rinaldo Traini and Romano Calisi and Frenchman Claude Moliterni (forming the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators), and was first held 21–22 February 1965 in Bordighera, Imperia. 

In 1993, after the Salone Internazionale dei Comics left Lucca, city leaders launched a new convention called simply Lucca Comics that was a reprise of the old one. In 1995, it changed its name to Lucca Comics & Games.