Lucca Comics & Games 2022

Lucca Comics & Games 2022 will take place between October 28 and November 1, 2022, 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 between late October and early November. The fair is considered the second most important comics event in the world, after the Comiket in Tokyo.

SHORT HISTORY

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

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

In 1976, after the 12th edition, 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 the ticket 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 was inaugurated in 1993 under the title of Lucca Comics, and only in 1995 it assumed the name Lucca Comics & Games.

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

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