Lucca Comics & Games

Salone Internazionale dei Comics The Salone Internazionale dei Fumetti ("International Congress of Comics") was launched by a Franco-Italian partnership, consisting of Italians and Romano Calisi and Frenchman (forming the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators), and was first held 21–22 February 1965 in Bordighera, Imperia. On September 24–25, 1966, in the center of town; it grew in size and importance over the years. The 1968 edition, held November 16–17, also saw the birth of Immagine, the Center for Iconographic Studies, is born, a private cultural organization sponsored by the University of Rome that became responsible for producing the festival. The festival attracted 50,000 attendees in 2002. Meanwhile, Salone Internazionale dei Comics co-founder Rinaldo Traini continued the festival in Rome as part of his new venture Expocartoon, held from 1995 to 2005. Merger In 2006, for the festival's 40th anniversary, the Salone merged with Lucca Comics & Games and moved back to Lucca's city center, with numerous tents and pavilions arranged in different squares within and outside the walls of the medieval city. Many creators cancelled their scheduled appearances at the show; despite this, 314,220 tickets were sold. • The first poster, Ouverture, was inspired by Puccini's opera Tosca • The second poster, Crescendo, was inspired by Madama Butterfly • The third final poster, Finale Fantastico, was an unpublished work by Amano that was created during the event == Awards ==

and Maccio Capatonda at Lucca Comics & Games 2016 Comics awards From 1970 to 1992, the festival presented the Yellow Kid Award — named in honor of Richard F. Outcault's seminal comic strip character The Yellow Kid — in such categories as Best Cartoonist, Best Illustrator, Best Newcomer, Best Foreign Artist, and Lifetime Achievement. Yellow Kid Awards were also presented to publishers, both domestic and foreign. Before taking on the name "Yellow Kid", the Lucca prize was known as the "Gran Guinigis" (named after Lucca's Guinigi Tower). The Yellow Kid Awards were presented at the Salone Internazionale dei Comics (International Comics and Cartooning Exhibition) in Rome from 1994 to 2005, at which point the Yellow Kid Awards were retired. In 2006, Lucca Comics & Games brought back the Gran Guinigi as a career accomplishment award. In 2020, as the festival redubbed itself "Lucca Changes" amidst a shift to virtual programming during the COVID-19 pandemic, the awards shifted to a new system under the umbrella term Lucca Comics Awards, consisting of nine categories (three Yellow Kids, five Gran Guinigis, and one Stefano Beani Award named for a former festival director), "regardless of nationality, editorial format or distribution method". In 2024, a special mention was awarded in an emotional moment to Mahasen Al-Khateeb, Palestinian illustrator and character designer killed in an Israeli bombardment in her home town of Gaza. Yellow Kid Award recipients Gran Guinigi recipients From 2006. • 2006: Gino D'Antonio • 2007: Sergio Toppi • 2008: Vittorio Giardino • 2009: Robert Crumb • 2010: Jiro Taniguchi • 2011: Enrique Breccia • 2012: Hermann Huppen • 2013: Silver (Guido Silvestri) • 2014: Gipi • 2015: Alfredo Castelli • 2016: Albert Uderzo • 2017: José Muñoz • 2018: Leiji Matsumoto • 2019: Chris Claremont • 2020: AkaB (Gabriele Di Benedetto) • 2021: Lorenzo Mattotti • 2022: Riyoko Ikeda and Milo Manara • 2023: Frank Miller Games awards • 1999: Murat CELEBI's [skirmish miniature game [CONFRONTATION], for Best of Show. • 2002: Emiliano Sciarra's Wild West-themed card game Bang!, for Best of Show • 2003: Sine Requie, for Best Italian Game • 2004: Helena Bulaja's Priče iz davnine ("Croatian Tales of Long Ago"), for Best Multimedia Award • 2010: • 7 Wonders, for Best Card Game • Eden: the Deceit, Side Award for Best Game Mechanics • 2011: • Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World, for RPG of the Year • Twilight Struggle, for Best of Show in Boardgame for Experts == References ==