A girl's hand holds a cell phone that frames a group of cosplayers in front of the church of San Michele at Lucca Comics & Games

Lucca Comics & Games 2025

French Kiss: In 2025, Lucca Comics & Games pays homage to France, the birthplace of bande dessinée, or comic strips.

The times of composition of the music are Italian, the most universal kiss in the world is French. 
Rébecca Dautremer is the author who created the iconic images of the 2025 edition of Lucca Comics & Games: six characters looking for a kiss.

There's a grim Werewolf, a grim Warrior, a sharp-toothed Countess, a fanged Monster, a gray-haired Witch, and the Lukawa – a fictional creature that blends the name of the city of Lucca with the Eastern influence of manga and animation. 

In 2025, Lucca Comics & Games pays homage to France, the birthplace of bande dessinée, or comic strips.

A gesture that spans histories, cultures, and generations, intimate and revolutionary at the same time, essential to every pop narrative, from cinema to fantasy literature and graphic novels. A small, natural act, but also a narrative detonator: it creates and crowns adventures, reveals secret identities, unites enemies, breaks spells. 

A kiss creates a space between two people where anything can happen, sparking personal or collective revolutions. A moment of physical and emotional connection that transforms differences into attraction and opposites into harmony. 

Even the city's monuments, as always, are part of this story...

try to look for them in all combinations of posters, and to imagine the stories of these couples in the atmosphere of Lucca.

Earlybird ticket offices close on September 29th

Online ticket offices open on September 2nd

I LOVE LUCCA COMICS & GAMES It is the first film that explores the manifestation

To convey, through the power of cinematic storytelling, a prismatic image of a unique reality in the Italian and international landscape. At the center is not just the festival, the event itself, but the people who experience it, fuel it, and make it possible, their lives, their stories. Indeed, they—the participants, the VisitAutori—are the protagonists of the film, witnesses and ambassadors of a movement that is gently and quietly changing its cultural models.

A story from inside the universe of Lucca Comics & Games—the largest festival dedicated to new forms of storytelling across diverse media—which each year transforms the medieval Tuscan city into an international stage showcasing the event's core values: community, inclusion, discovery, respect, and gratitude. 

Tetsuo Hara celebrates Italy with his new painting, world premiere in Lucca
    

On the occasion of his long-awaited participation in LC&G 2025, master Tetsuo Hara, author of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), he signs a work entitled The Savior in the Arena.

This painting will be the visual heart of the monographic exhibition Tetsuo Hara: Like a Lightning from Heaven, the first exhibition in the world entirely dedicated to the sensei's main series, which will be hosted in the Church of Santa Annunziata dei Servi in ​​Lucca, from October 25 to November 2, 2025. On display, over 100 original paintings and manga panels.