At the recent Napoli Comicon 2022 event, One Piece manga author Eiichiro Oda was honored with the “Lifetime Achievement Award”.
At the Napoli Comicon 2022 event last weekend in Italy, author Eiichiro Oda was honored to be awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the art council for the One Piece manga.
Instead of thanking, Oda sent Napoli Comicon a picture of Luffy eating Italian pizza (photo below). In Italy, the One Piece manga is currently being published by Star Comics Publishing House, the sales of the series are also extremely positive along with a strong fan base and the One Piece manga in Italy has also reached the milestone of surpassing 100 volumes. like in Japan.
“Hello friends of Italy! I sincerely thank!” – Author Oda thanked him with his own picture.
Napoli Comicon – International Comics Show is a cultural event of international importance, dedicated to the entertainment category, which takes place annually in Naples, for 4 days (for 3 days from the 2011 edition, excluding the session). 2008 edition, performed over 4 days) usually in the spring in the space of Mostra d’Oltremare in Fuorigrotta (until 2009 at Castel Sant’Elmo al Vomero, except for the 2000 edition, held at Villa Pignatelli ). The event was first held in 1998. In 2010 and 2011, the two venues Castel Sant’Elmo and Mostra d’Oltremare hosted the event.
This is a large exchange playground of Italian comics/animations in particular and European comics/animations in general and with Japanese comics/animations, as well as J-Pop, K-Pop.
Beginning in 2011 Napoli Comicon began a cycle of linking Comics, understood as “Ninth Art”, with other categories. Each year, one of the categories will become the center of the event: Music in 2011 is the turn, while 2012 is Comics and Literature, Architecture is at the heart of 2013. 2014, the main theme. close the interactive cycle of Comics with the art of Comics and Cinema.
The cycle began in 2015 and ended with the 2017 edition that saw Comics compete with other “medias”, beginning with Journalism in 2015, Audiovisual in 2016 and New Media in 2017.
In 2018, the event celebrated its 20th anniversary, in 2019 Matteo Stefanelli was appointed creative director, he was the first of the event to have abolished the central theme, prioritizing development each department independently (comics, movies, TV, video games).
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