Fumetti
This article is about the photocomics, known as "fumetti". For Italian comics, see the page with that name.Fumetti or
photo novels are a form of
comics illustrated with photographs rather than drawings. This kind of graphic storytelling has experienced the most popularity in
Italy. Italian weeklies such as "Grand Hotel" and "Bolero Film" sold millions of copies in the 1940s and continue to sell well today. A fictitious fumetto plays a central role in
Federico Fellini's film
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik).
In the
Italian language,
fumetti are all comics, not just photo novels (
fumetti literally means "little clouds of smoke", in reference to
speech balloons). Instead, Italians call photo-illustrated comics
fotoromanzi. Fumetti are also popular in
Spain and
Latin America, where they are called
fotonovelas, and in
France. Fumetti have never been widely appreciated in the
United States. They did appear in the U.S. for a short time in the late 1970s. They were adaptions of current
science fiction films of the day. They included adaptions of
Battlestar Galactica,
Star Trek, and
Buck Rogers. The adaptions were usually abridged and were composed of stills from the motion pictures. With the advent of
Home Video, these adaptions no longer had a market and they disappeared by the early 1980s.
* occasional pieces in
Weirdo magazine
* pieces in
Help! magazine
* The Marvel Fumetti Book
*
Nickelodeon Magazine's
Roughin' It*
Leisure Town by
Tristan A. Farnon, with photographs of bendable toys digitally added to photographed backgrounds.
*
Twisted Toyfare Theater, a featured strip in
Toyfare Magazine
*
Albert Wang's fumetti imprint FotoGrafical Comics*
Some early examples of fumetti*
Twisted Kaiju Theater: Godzilla Toy fumetti*
Web fumetto The Anomalies*
Web fumetto A Softer World*
Web fumetto Lick My Jesus*
Web fumetto Sinister Bedfellows*
Web fumetto Caution Man*
Web fumetto Even in the Deepest Heart of Chaos, a Glimmer of Order Can Be Found*
Web fumetto tiny ghosts*
Web fumetto Reprographics*
Web fumetto Fluff in Brooklyn*
Web fumetto Michael's Exciting Life*
Web fumetto Transparent Life*
Web fumetto Terror Island
