The long-awaited Lucca Comics&Games is back: one of the main events dedicated to comics, animation, games, videogames, fantasy and sci-fi!

The festival will start on November, 1st and end on 4th; the exhibitions have been open from October 20th until the end of the festival.

For the 25th time, there will also be the Original Game Contest: the announcement is online for all the games creators.

A for the comics, the special guests of this edition will be:

The Boat Show is back in Genoa with its 52nd edition.

One of the leading shows in the world thanks to its extraordinarily wide range of products, Genoa Boat Show offers its visitors the chance to find out about the new trends in the nautical market.

The fair boasts an outstanding exhibition area of 360,000 square yards (of which 120,000 on the water) with pavilions and open-air spaces, at the entrance of Genoa harbour.

The large number of exhibiting companies will offer a wide range of products: nautical clothing, accessories,

The 69th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will be held in Venice Lido from August 29th to September 8th, 2012, directed by Alberto Barbera.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and spread the international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. In addition, the Festival includes retrospectives to pay homage to the greatest figures of cinema as a contribution towards raising awareness of the history of cinema.

Here are some of the titles scheduled for today 3rd September:

You still have time until July 29th 2012 for visiting the exhibition entitled “Return to Itaca” by the Ligurian artist Carmen Spigno.

From Friday 6th July 2012 the painter’s works are put on display at the “Fortezza del Priamar” in the city of Savona (Liguria Region).

The artist chose not to use traditional colours and all paintings have been created with soil colours, which have been dried in the sun and then amalgamated with resin produced by trees formerly dissolved in water.

The exhibition’s title “Return to Itaca” comes from the novel of the writer Paolo Coelho, “The Zahir”, which tells about the troubled journey of a man who is searching for the meaning of his existence, just as Ulysses, who travelled to Ithaca for seeking knowledge.

Dear comics-addicts, make sure you are free on 13th, 14th and 15th April because there will be great surprises in Turin, Italy!

“Torino Comics” – Comics, games and cosplays – is coming back to Turin at Pavilion 3 of Lingotto Fiere with a programme full of events, meetings with special guests, initiatives and games open to everyone. Special guest of this edition will be Terry Moore, the author of the series Strangers in Paradise, Echo and Rachel Rising.

Other important Italian authors who will be present this year are: Paolo Barbieri, Gabriele dell’Otto, Bepi Vigna,