After the numerous announcements relating to the new edition of Lucca Comics and Games, here is another overview of the events on comics that can be found this year in Lucca. Below we share the rich calendar with you.
Arrived therefore to October 31, at 10.30 in Sala Tobino there will be the showcase of John Romita Jr. The artist will draw and tell his story and his work on all the Superheroes existing, and not only. With Andrea Bellusci. At 11.30 am, at the Archbishop's Hall, Valerio Lundini will be present: the impossible interview, with Valerio Lundini and Alessandro Apreda alias DocManhattan. We then move on at 12.00 in Sala Tobino with the Marcello Quintanilha showcase. Coconino Press presents Marcello Quintanilha with Marco Rizzo. At 12.00, at the Church of San Giovanni, Barbarone presents Gipi presenting Barbarone. At 12.30, in the San Francesco Auditorium, he will predict life Something is drawing the Comics. Werther Dell’Edera, Roberto Recchioni, James Tynion IV, try to understand the implications of a long professional and artistic collaboration. At 1.15 pm, at the Archbishop's Hall, it will be the turn of Visioni da Taiwan a journey through historical memory with Zuo Hsuan and Marco Rizzo. At 1.30 pm, at the San Giovanni Church, Power Pizza Live returns to be live with Sio, Nick & Lorro. Also at 1.30 pm, another space dedicated to comics in Lucca will start at the Sala del Suffragio. Manuele Fior presents his new graphic novel Hypericon, a love story between two twenty-year-olds in Berlin in the nineties that is intertwined with the extraordinary adventure of the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, which took place a century ago. At 2.00 pm, at the San Francesco Auditorium, there will be Zerocalcare - 365 days of welcome. Zerocalcare and its editor talk to each other every day. Comics? Of cartoons? Let's find out together with Michele Foschini. At 3.00 pm, in the Tobino Room, there will be the Nagabe showcase. The author will draw for the public and talk about his style with Alessandro Apreda alias DocManhattan. Also at 3.00 pm, at the Church of San Giovanni, Marco Rizzo and Lelio Bonaccorso, Paolo Bacillieri, Sakka, Mara Cerri and Giacomo Nanni will be the protagonists of the event The arts in the Ninth Art. Moderated by Luca Raffaelli. And then again, at 3.00 pm in the Suffrage Auditorium, Shockdom presents DIRT by Giulio Rincione. Dario Moccia was also present at the event. At 4.30 pm, in the Sala Incontri Cappella Guinigi, comic storytelling will be discussed in the digital world and the paper one with Webcomics: the digital authorial dream. Rita Petruccioli, Lorenzo Ghetti, Gianluca Caputo, Dario Sicchio and Matteo Gaspari will be present. At 5.00 pm, at the San Francesco Auditorium, Sio, Dado, Fraffrog and Keison will make a Gigannouncement. At 5.30 pm, at the Archbishop's Hall, it will be the turn of Face to Face with Norihiro Yagi - Session 2. The author of Ariadne in The Blue Sky meets a selected number of fans (reservation at the Star Comics pavilion). The use of the mask will be mandatory. Finally, to conclude the day, at 9.30 pm at the Teatro del Giglio there will be the Graphic Novel Theater event: Celestia by Manuele Fior (event to be booked on Eventbrite).
The day of November 1st
On November 1st, at 11.30 am at the Teatro del Giglio, Roberto Saviano presents The stories of the Paranza (event by reservation on Eventbrite). Readers will be able to buy The Stories of the Paranza. The memory of bones, available in only 500 numbered copies. Finally, at 12.00 in the Sala Tobino, Sio will be held: 30 strips in 30 minutes. Sio closes its Lucca Comics and Games 2022 with a flourish with the famous 30 strips within 30 minutes, like every year!
