fumetti (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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In Italian, you are no doubt correct.  But in English, I've seen fumetti
as the singular.  (but also fumetto, see the 2009 cite below).

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> On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > Not in OED
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> > A fumetti
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> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > _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."
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