fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
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> Not in OED
>
> A fumetti

Not to be picky, but…a *fumetto*, as in panino (or spaghetto).
OK, to be picky.

LH

> is a comic strip with photographs instead of drawings.  Seen
> occasionally in Mad Magazine, Help! Magazine (also by former Mad editor
> Harvey Kurtzman), assorted Marvel Comics.  National Lampoon ran them but
> called them "Photo Funnies"  Here:
> http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2009/03/kurtzmans-fumetti_28.html
> is one from Help!  It stars Henny Youngman.
>
> Another, starring John Cleese:
> http://www.dograt.com/gallery/?pid=33
>
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>
> _American Weekly_ [Sunday newspaper supplement from _Washington Post_]
> 24 June 1956 p 19 col 2
> ""Fumetti" are rather like our comic strips, except that they are
> photographs, with smoke rings (the Italian word for smoke is "fumo")
> coming out of the characters' mouths, in which are the words which tell
> the action."
>
>
> _New York Times Magazine_ 7 Dec 1958 p 126 col 2
> "The word fumetti, which literally means "little bits of smoke," refers
> to the white balloons that float over the actors' heads and are filled
> with heady, hand-lettered dialogue."
>
> _Calgary Herald_ 13 Jan 1968 p 11 col 2
> "He was referring, apparently, to several recent successful prosecutions
> of publishers of salacious photo "comic" strips -- called fumetti -- in
> which nearly nude male and female models approach the explicit in
> stories of sex, satyrism, and sadism."
>
> _Print_ [magazine]  Feb 2009 p 20 col 2
> "In 1976, Punk magazine published "The Legend of Nick Detroit," a
> fumetto starring Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, and David Byrne, designed
> by Jon Holmstrom; the strip was a big sensation among the mosh-pit
> crowd."
>
> _Publishers Weekly_ 20 Sept 2010 p55 col 2
> "In places, his characters are so obviously drawn from photographs the
> book might as well be fumetti, but Bolton's feverish super-realism give
> it a hallucinatory tone."
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
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