Lucca Comics & Games 2026 is preparing to celebrate its 60th anniversary, together with its legendary community, from Wednesday October 28 to Sunday November 1. Sixty years of history and creativity, diversity and inclusion, evolution and, above all, community. A community on a journey, whose story can't look to the past but needs to look into the future.
The "Diamond" anniversary is not only a chance to celebrate the past, but a moment to understand what the festival has built with those who have lived it – and to discover, together, what comes next. For six decades, comics, gaming and the culture of the fantastic have been a gymnasium of the imagination for entire generations; that heritage of values, stories and dreams is the LEGACY of Lucca Comics & Games, the theme of this edition.
Legacy means heritage and the passing of the baton – but also, as in those board games where every move permanently changes the board, the idea that those who play today change how everyone plays tomorrow. The curious childhood of the '70s, the explosive youth of the '80s, the influences of the '90s, the digital metamorphosis of the 2000s, the expansion of the '10s. Then the most difficult trial: 2020, the year when everything stopped and the festival decided not to disappear, turning challenges into opportunities. The return and rebirth, the desire to continue a story that isn't just nostalgia, but uninterrupted change and evolution.
Born in Italy in 1966 and now an excellence of Made in Italy, the festival has expanded beyond its borders into a place to meet, grow and play, united in diversity. It shares that ideal with the motto of the European Union: this edition is held under the patronage of the European Commission, placing Italy and Lucca's global resonance at its centre. The official 60th-anniversary poster – presented during a press conference at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence – is signed by Claudio Castellini, an absolute master of international comics and a living embodiment of the festival’s history. The original Poster, purchased by Fondazione Banca del Monte, will become part of the institution's permanent collection (more info at the respective web page).
