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https://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/en/2023/home/
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As Israel intensifies its bombardment of 2.3 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip, artists are withdrawing from Europe’s top comics festival, Lucca Comics, over Israeli government sponsorship, the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported on Monday.
The news of the growing boycott was announced in a press release by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Israeli Sponsorship
Bestselling cartoonist and author of the Netflix series ‘Tear Along the Dotted Line’, Zerocalcare, withdrew from the festival on Saturday.
In a statement Zerocalcare said,
“Unfortunately, the Israeli embassy sponsorship of Lucca Comics represents a problem for me. … I know that the logo on the poster is just a symbol, but that symbol for many people dear to me represents the fear of not seeing the sun rise tomorrow, the rubble under which their loved ones are buried, the threat of dying trapped in an open-air prison.”
Lucca Comics, which is set to run November 1-5, is the second biggest comics festival in the world after Tokyo’s Comiket.
Source:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/worlds-second-largest-comics-festival-faces-boycotts-over-gaza-genocide/