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.