Lucca Festival 2006 Report and Regrets

The 2006 edition of the Lucca Comics and Games Festival has just passed; this was the 40th anniversary of partnership between convention and town. It's one of the bigger festivals in the world, and may be familiar to comics fans in a footnote-ish way as a place where American mainstream artists in particular have gone over the year to experience the European market. If I'm reading it correctly, this piece by Claude Moliterni is kind of humorous from an outsider's perspective as it marks how the show has blown up but has perhaps some of those special moments of advancing the understanding of the art form from years past, and more personal interaction with the artists. Before: bringing underground comix to Europe! Now: kids in costumes! That's an unfair reduction, of course, but it's interesting to think of a European show dealing with those kinds of regrets, and to mark the differences in how they do so.
 
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