The Salone Internazionale del Comics ("International Congress of Comics") was launched by a Franco-Italian partnership, consisting of Italians Rinaldo Traini and Romano Calisi and Frenchman Claude Moliterni [fr] (forming the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators) in 1965 in Bordighera.

For the first time, the 2024 edition will see the poster of the fair designed by the famous Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano, the illustrator of the Final Fantasy series.

The three event posters created by Yoshitaka Amano are inspired by the works of Giacomo Puccini, the centenary of whose death occurs this year.

In 2006, Lucca Comics & Games brought back the Gran Guinigi as a career accomplishment award.

[8] In 2024, a special mention was awarded in an emotional moment to Mahasen Al-Khateeb, Palestinan illustrator and character designer killed in an Israeli bombardment in her home town of Gaza.