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Today Lucca Comics & Games has launched the new poster for its 2024 edition. This year’s festival, themed The Butterfly Effect, has had its poster designed by world famous Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano.

For The Butterfly Effect, Amano created not just one image, but three, each representing an act of this extraordinary work.

Lucca Comics & Games releases Ouverture, represented by the work that Amano dedicated to Puccini's Tosca. An embrace between two characters, between physicality and imagination, which captures all the exuberant energy of the festival and the thousand colors of its audience of butterflies. The image dedicated to Madama Butterfly will arrive in September and on October 30^th the festival will present a third work by Amano, this time linked to his immortal princess Turandot, to reflect the apotheosis of creativity and passion that is Lucca Comics & Games.

Lucca has always aimed to be a crossroads of different arts - a place where comics, games, cinema, literature, and music merge into a multisensory experience.

In the year of the Puccini centenary, it is only natural to think that Lucca Comics & Games would present a contemporary version of that synesthetic ideal which, a century ago, was represented by opera, a combination of literary invention, scenic wonder and musical magic.

In addition to a clear reference to Puccini's masterpiece, the title refers to the well-known Butterfly Effect, a corollary of chaos theory which studies how small changes can lead to large consequences. It is a theme that perfectly resonates with the spirit of Lucca Comics & Games, and to visually represent the three acts of this unique Opera, they have called upon a great Sensei who embodies a melting pot of cultures and media: Yoshitaka Amano.

Lucca Comics & Games 2024, The Butterfly Effect, promises to be a memorable edition, an event that celebrates the transformative power of art and creativity, in perfect harmony with the spirit of innovation that has always characterized this extraordinary festival.