{"id":2132273,"date":"2025-11-03T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132273"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:08:20","slug":"lucca-comics-and-games-europes-answer-to-comic-con-sees-3-rise-in-attendees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lucca-comics-and-games-europes-answer-to-comic-con-sees-3-rise-in-attendees\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucca Comics and Games, Europe\u2019s Answer to Comic-Con, Sees 3% Rise in Attendees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The numbers say it all. Despite last year\u2019s event falling providentially on a long public holiday, this year has seen even more attendees at Lucca Comics and Games, Europe\u2019s answer to Comic-Con.<\/p>\n<p>Over 280,000 tickets were sold and 17,000 professionals, comic-book artists and creators participated and 30,000 cosplayers. There were exhibitions by leading Manga artists, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> promoted their last season of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4574334\/\">Stranger Things<\/a>,\u201d and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0463620\/\">Hideo Kojima<\/a> was on hand for a panel, talking to the public about his new game \u201cDeath Stranding 2,\u201d along with actors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2143950\/\">Luca Marinelli<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0432506\/\">Alissa Jung<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a 3% rise of attendees compared to last year, which is great considering we didn\u2019t have the public holiday to help us,\u201d Emanuele Vietina, the head or as he prefers the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9680979\/\">Dungeon<\/a> Master of the festival, tells Variety.<\/p>\n<p>What has been his best memory of the week? \u201cThere are so many memories from this event. When I came into the Santa Annunziata church,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers say it all. Despite last year\u2019s event falling providentially on a long public holiday, this year has seen even more attendees at Lucca Comics and Games, Europe\u2019s answer to Comic-Con. Over 280,000 tickets were sold and 17,000 professionals, comic-book artists and creators participated and 30,000 cosplayers. 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