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Lucca Comics & Games 2023 will take place between Wednesday, November 1, and Sunday, November 5, 2023, in Lucca.

Lucca Comics and Games is an international fair dedicated to comics, animation, games and fantasy imagery, which takes place every year in Lucca in early November. The fair is considered the second most important comics event in the world, after the Comiket in Tokyo.

SHORT HISTORY OF LUCCA COMICS & GAMES

Lucca Comics & Games 2023 In 1966, was held in Lucca the second edition of the International Comics Fair (Salone Internazionale dei Comics), after the first edition took place in 1965 in Bordighera.

In 1968, the cultural association Immagine-Centro di Studi Iconografici was born, a private company that would organize the future fairs.

In 1976, after the 12th edition of the International Comics Fair, it was decided to transform the fair into a biennial event, with a spring edition and an autumn edition.

Due to the financial problems of the Municipality of Lucca, the edition of 1988 was cancelled. In 1990, it was decided to introduce tickets for visitors.

The last edition of the International Comics Fair was held in April 1992. The Municipality of Lucca was no longer able to bear the expenses for the event.

However, the Municipality, through the autonomous organization Max Massimino Garnier, decided to continue to organize exhibitions every six months.

The new event, entitled Lucca Comics, was inaugurated in 1993, and in 1995 it assumed the name of Lucca Comics & Games.

Since the 1996 edition, Lucca Junior was also organized, an area of the fair intended for a younger audience.

During the spring edition of 1999, the first Cosplay Contest was launched within an Italian comic event. In 2000, the fair became annual, losing the spring edition.

Starting with the 2006 edition, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the exhibition, the location of the entire fair was moved to the city center, within the city walls of Lucca.