Comics

Lucca Comics and Games Festival: “A Riveder le Stelle” (2021)

March 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

“‘Lucca Comics & Games is a unique cross-media event dedicated to pop culture, cosplay, and comics held in a medieval Tuscan town,’ said Emanuele Vietina, Director of Lucca Comics & Games.

“This year Italy is honouring poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri by celebrating the 700th anniversary of his death and Dante’s Divine Comedy sets the tone for the returning festival with this year’s theme being ‘rebehold the stars: light’.

“‘The theme of Light will visually accompany the Festival experience with contemporary Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri creating the image of Lucca Comics & Games poster (above). In the year of Dante’s celebrations, he creates a link between Lucca Comics & Games to Dante’s journey with Virgil through the darkness of Hell.” [. . .] —SciFiNow, September 24, 2021 (retrieved March 8, 2022)

The festival took place, in-person, from October 29 – November 1, 2021.

That’s Life Comic by Mike Twohy (2003)

November 28, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

In Mike Twohy’s 2003 comic That’s Life Virgil shows Dante a part of Hell where the damned must push “carts with stuck wheels” for eternity.

View the comic here.

Mike du Jour’s Dante Comic

November 26, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

The comic, created by the cartoonist Mike du Jour, features the character “Dante,” a dragon trainer who falls ill. Throughout the comic, Dante lingers. He never succumbs to the illness, yet he never recovers.

Comics on display in honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

November 24, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“Un nuovo evento: La Fumettoteca Regionale scende in campo per il ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ con ‘Beatrice Donna Dantesca’ L’immancabile sensibilizzazione alla ‘Giornata Internazionale per l’Eliminazione della Violenza contro le Donne’ ma non per un solo giorno! e tanti altri passati e in arrivo…”

Contributed by GianLuca Umiliacchi

Hell, Inc. Webcomic: “Abandon All Hope”

November 21, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

“I’m imagining that Hell has turned ‘abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ into a ‘New York, New York’ kind of jingle, which is why I knew immediately that I needed to draw Doug making ‘your name up in lights’ arm gestures.” [. . .] –Jeff Martin, Hell, Inc., 2019

The Hell, Inc. webcomic updates Mondays on Patreon here.

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