It's time to move Lucca Comics & Games in September

Despite the pouring rain that haunted us every day, we brought home a great coverage of Lucca Comics again this year, almost 70 pieces including news, preview reviews, interviews and insights, and then 15 videos including video interviews, reports and live.

Bravoni my brave on the field, Gabriella, Valentina and Roby and thanks also to those who helped us before and after with additional articles and news.

Every year I think we could have done more, that there were so many things that we didn't talk about, but amen, it's really impossible to do everything, especially in the conditions in which we worked in the past few days.

I have already said this several times and I repeat: Lucca is really now that you change dates, anticipating a month at the beginning / mid-September.

That of the "end of October" is a tradition that serves no purpose except to piss those who go and get the rain. The editions in which it never rained can be counted on the fingers of one hand, it really does not make any sense to continue unperturbed only "because it has always done so".

Coicidence with Halloween is insignificant and the bridge of November 1st not enough to justify an edition in the rain. Do you prefer to do the wet bridge? I do not think so. Among other things, next year it also happens on Sunday and the bridge is not there, but they have already confirmed, it will make up * again * on those damn dates.

It has been pointed out to me many times that the period of late October is convenient for the various publishers and companies that have to organize themselves in time to go to Lucca, that doing it in September would force everyone to prepare in a period that does not exist in Italy, August: well, I believe that Lucca has the strength to impose an "inconvenient" date on the industry. There are events all over the world all year round and imposing rain on all the participants just because companies are unable to organize themselves in August seems to me to be very ineffective. The first thought should go to the participants, not the industry.

It really was a very good edition and Lucca confirms itself as one of the most beautiful events in the world, it is indeed a great pride to have such an event in Italy.

It continues to say that it is the "second most important event in the world" for affluence putting it after the Comiket of Tokyo, but it seems nonsense to me, Comiket has very little to do with pop culture, it is an event for budding mangakas looking for a publisher and little else, it is not even remotely comparable to Lucca Comics for variety and content.

Lucca Comics & Games is actually the biggest pop culture event in the world

(for affluence, content and extension) and should begin to boast of it and to remove that veil of provincialism that has always pursued them.

I've always done several critical to Lucca Comics (in particular to the aspects I care about, the image of the convention, the organization of the stands, directions around the streets, non-existent merchandising, internationalization, the site, the app, etc.) but it must be recognized in Lucca that there is very little even remotely similar to the world.

Dream a Lucca Comics in early September, with the sun, in closed schools. With a real logo and a decent corporate image. With a well done site. With a well-made app. With stores dedicated to the merch of the fair scattered around the city. With directions for beautiful, clear streets and also in English. With areas that have clear, unambiguous and recognizable names and that also help their location around the city and not only refer to people or streets that nobody knows.

Sala Ingellis? Carducci Pavilion? Napoleon? What the hell do they mean? anything. Think of those who watch the program and it's not from Lucca, start using colors, geographical areas, letters, numbers, to indicate where to go and make sure that if I read the name of a place, I already know more or less where it is in the city and how far it is …

But they are details, tips that only serve to do even better and that I hope one day to see realized, in any case thanks to Emanuele Vietina and to all those who are doing striped asses every year to give us, in Italy, a world-class convention.

Viva Lucca Comics & Games!