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This article is about the photocomics, known as "fumetti". For Italian comics, see the page with that name.

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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.

Other examples of fumetti

• occasional pieces in Weirdo magazine
• pieces in Help! magazine
• The Marvel Fumetti Book
• Dorothy, a comic book launched in November 2005 that retells the story of The Wizard of Oz from a darker perspective. Model Catie Fisher portrays Dorothy Gale in this version.
• Nickelodeon Magazine's Roughin' It
• Marvel's upcoming "1985" written by Mark Millar.

External links

• Some early examples of fumetti
• Web fumetto The Anomalies
• Web fumetto A Softer World
• Web fumetto Lick My Jesus
• Web fumetto tiny ghosts

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