Ex Museo italiano del fumetto e dell'immagine di Lucca

This guide to the former Museo Italiano del Fumetto in Lucca explores what still sits inside these old army barracks: roughly thirty thousand original drawn pages and about five hundred thousand comics and newspapers, gathered from Lucca's annual comics festival since nineteen sixty-six. You'll hear how comics scholar Gianni Bono pushed to turn that collection into a museum, opened in two thousand two and expanded through the mid two thousands. It traces which characters drew children here, from Signor Bonaventura to the masked thief Diabolik and cartoonist Benito Jacovitti. Stand on the piazza and picture the shelves still waiting behind these barrack walls.