Lucca is the City of Lucca Comics & Games! Medieval streets, 19th-century squares, hidden courtyards, shadowy loggias, fantastic towers, mysterious palaces and the splendid Renaissance walls welcome the comic book crowd once again this year.

the ‘balloon’ of the early 1970s

These were the years in which comics had a specific weight in Italian popular culture: Corto Maltese, Tex Willer, Valentina, Sturmtruppen, Alan Ford, Diabolik, Zagor, Kriminal, Lupo Alberto, Cocco Bill, Ken Parker are just some of the many Italian comics that were born at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
Lucca Comics immediately became the reference event for the world of ‘talking clouds’ and so, to the delight of young and old, all the great heroes of this fantastic world passed through our beautiful Tuscan city: Hugo Pratt, Magnus, Bonvi, the Giussani sisters, Max Bunker, Milo Manara, Sergio Bonelli, Sergio Staino, Jacovitti, Dino Battaglia, Altan, Guido Crepax.

From the ‘Pallone’ to the ‘Palazzetto’

From the 1980s until 2006, the Palazzetto dello Sport became the venue for the fair, with some memorable editions and, above all, always with the presence of the Italian and international comics elite, who were joined by Andrea Pazienza, Stefano Tamburini or the new Bonelli Editore proposals such as Tiziano Sclavi's Dylan Dog.

Lucca Comics & Games 'comes to town’

Since 2006, the passage of the fair within the city walls, the opening to the world of videogames and role-playing games, as well as the growing worldwide fashion for cosplay, have propelled Lucca Comics & Games into an unimaginable dimension: the most important Italian exhibition in the sector, first in Europe and second in the world, after Tokyo's Comiket.
If the 1993 edition had 30,000 admissions (considered a real record at the time), the 2017 edition exceeded 240,000 tickets sold.