Sir Ian Livingstone at Lucca 2024

Last weekend, Sir Ian Livingstone was a guest at the week-long Italian comics and games fair, Lucca 2024.

Sir Ian Livingstone at Lucca 2024 with Karl Kopinski, cover artist for the hardback of Assassins of Allansia.

During his time there, he joined with others in celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons, including Luke Gygax, son of the late Gary Gygax.

Sir Ian Livingstone (centre) and Luke Gygax (second from right).

He also met with many Italian Fighting Fantasy fans and was even presented with an award for Best Foreign Gamebook.

Sir Ian's award for Best Foreign Gamebook.

Sir Ian Livingstone at Lucca 2023 and the Bogforum Book Fair

Sir Ian Livingstone had a busy week last week.

First of all he jetted off to Italy to attend Lucca Comics & Games 2023. The Italian edition of Dice Men was launched in Lucca, by Raven Distribution, alongside a new Italian edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.

As you can imagine, there were plenty of fans who wanted him to sign their books.

The talks he gave were very well attended too.

To cement his rock and roll status as a game designer, while Sir Ian was in Italy, he was invited to leave his handprints and signature in perpetuity for the Lucca Comics & Games Walk of Fame, which is dedicated to the most important and popular creators of comics and games.

It was then on to Copenhagen in Denmark, for our globe-trotting hero, to attend the Bogforum Book Fair. He was there to celebrate the launch of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in Danish.

The signing queue there was just as long as it had been in Italy!

There are now 14 Fighting Fantasy title available in Danish, including the 40th anniversary titles Shadow of the Giants and Secrets of Salamonis...

...and the Slavernes Krønike boxset, which contains translations of Trial of Champions and Armies of Death.

Sir Ian Livingstone to attend Lucca Comics and Games Festival

Sir Ian Livingstone is going to be one of the guests attending Lucca23, the Italian comics and games festival that is running from 1st - 5th November 2023 in the medieval city of Lucca.

This is because Raven Distribution are going to be relaunching the Fighting Fantasy series in Italy. The first book to be released will of course be The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, featuring brand new cover art by Andrea Guardino.

The classic gamebook, called Lo Stregone della Montagna Infuocata in Italian, will also feature brand new internal illustrations by Andrea Alemanno.

Not only that, but the Italian edition of Dice Men, Uomini & Dadi, will also be on sale during the fair.

Ian Livingstone at Lucca Comics and Games and PixelCon this weekend!

If you happen to be visiting the Lucca Comics and Games convention in Italy this weekend, or you're at PixelCon at Arcadia in Budapest, keep an eye open for the fiendish designer of such classic Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks as City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon, and Island of the Lizard King.

Ian Livingstone is attending Lucca Comics and Games this Thursday and Friday (1st - 2nd November 2018), where he will be signing books as well as giving a talk on Friday morning entitled 'Life is a Game'. He will then be interviewed in the afternoon before undertaking his second signing session. To find out more, follow this link.

And then on Saturday, 3rd November 2018, Ian will be the guest of honour at PixelCon in Budapest. To find out more about that event, follow this link.