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Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling using photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions of narrative text and word balloons containing dialogue. They are sometimes referred to in English as fumetti, photonovels, photoromances, and similar terms. The photographs may be of real people in staged scenes, or posed dolls and other toys on sets. Although far less common than illustrated comics, photo comics have filled certain niches in various places and times. For example, they have been used to adapt popular film and television works into print, tell original
melodrama A melodrama is a Drama, dramatic work in which plot, typically sensationalized for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodrama is "an exaggerated version of drama". Melodramas typically concentrate on ...
s, and provide medical education. Photo comics have been popular at times in Italy and Latin America, and to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries.


Terminology

The terminology used to describe photo comics is somewhat inconsistent and idiosyncratic. ''Fumetti'' is an
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
word (literally "little puffs of smoke", in reference to
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s), which refers in that language to any kind of comics. Because of the popularity of photo comics in Italy, ''fumetti'' became a
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in English referring specifically to that technique. By extension, comics which use a mixture of photographic and illustrated imagery have been described as ''mezzo-fumetti'' ("half" fumetti). Meanwhile, the
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...
term ''fotonovela'' – referring to popular photo-comics melodramas in Latin America – was adapted in English as ''fotonovel'' or ''photonovel'', and came to be associated primarily with film and television adaptations, which were marketed using those terms. Variations such as "photo funnies" and "photostories" have also been used. In Italian, a photo comic is referred to as a ''fotoromanzo'' ("photonovel", plural: ''fotoromanzi''). In Spanish-speaking countries, the term ''fotonovela'' refers to several genres of photo comics, including original melodramas.


History

There were attempts at photo comics in the early days of tabloids in the United States. The '' New York Graphic'' (1924-1932) featured a daily multi-panel "Graphic Photo Drama from Life" illustrated feature and an "Antics of Arabella" comic strip in which scantily clad chorus girls or models demonstrated ''Physical Culture'' (Macfadden magazine) exercise poses while telling jokes in word balloons. As early as 1927 the ''
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appearing in sequential photographs, telling jokes (presumably from the ''Follies'' scripts) with speech bubbles superimposed. Photo comics emerged in Italy in the 1940s and expanded into the 1950s. (Actress
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worked for a time as a model.) The lurid Italian crime photo comic '' Killing'' ran from 1966 through 1969, and was reprinted in other countries; it has been reprinted and revived numerous times since then. The technique spread to Latin America, first adapting popular films, then for original stories. By the 1960s, there were about two dozen ''fotonovela'' movie adaptations circulating in Latin America and nearly three times as many original works. They remained popular in Mexico into the late 1980s, when 70 million copies of ''fotonovelas'' were printed each month. Photo comics first became successful in the United States and Canada with
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'' magazine, which ran humorous photo stories from 1960 to 1965. Similar "Foto Funnies" – often featuring female nudity – were a regular feature of '' National Lampoon'' magazine beginning in the early 1970s. During the 1970s, lines of American paperback books were marketed as "Fotonovels" and "Photostories", adapting popular films and television shows. Although home video largely supplanted this market in the 1980s, a small number of photo comic adaptations continued to be produced as promotional tie-ins to the original work. Photo comics were common in British magazines such as '' Jackie'' in the 1980s, and a few are still published. There are a number of photo newspaper strips in the UK and the form was popular in girl's comics in the 1980s. Boy's comics of the early 1980s such as ''Load Runner'' and the relaunched ''
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'' also experimented with photo comics but without much success; when the ''Eagle'' was revamped, former photo comic strips such as '' Doomlord'' continued as illustrated strips. Online series such as ''
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'', and '' Alien Loves Predator'' are more recent examples of photo comics. In 2007, the
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gave the first award for "Outstanding Photographic Comic". In 2010 and 2011 the bilingual photo comic ''Union of Heroes'' was nominated for the "Web-Sonderman"-Awards for the best German webcomic. In the 2010s, cartoonist John Byrne – inspired by 1970s photo comics adaptations of ''
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'' episodes – produced a series of "photonovel adventures" which combined stills from the series with original digitally rendered background illustrations and new dialogue, to produce new stories featuring the characters. Software applications such as Comic Life, Comic Strip It, and Strip Designer, which allow users to add word balloons and sound effects to their personal photos and incorporate them into storytelling layouts, have revived some interest in the medium.


Common genres


TV and movie adaptations

In the United States, one of the common uses of photo comics has been TV and film adaptations, usually abridged for length. Still frames from the film or video are reproduced, often in simple grids but sometimes with creative layouts and cropping, overlaid with balloons with abbreviated dialogue from the screenplays. They are a cost-effective way to adapt films and TV series into comics without the expense of commissioning illustrations, and were a way for consumers to revisit motion-picture stories before the widespread availability of affordable home recording and video playback equipment such as VCRs.


Educational

The widespread familiarity of ''fotonovelas'' in Spanish-language culture makes photo comics an effective vehicle for health promotion and health education.Flora, C. (1985). The fotonovela in
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. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 4, 84-94.
Since the small pamphlets can be traded among individuals, they possess an element of portability that traditional materials lack. Both health and non-health entities have utilized the fotonovela as informational pamphlets. The fotonovelas produced by these organizations present information in a variety of illustrated forms but usually contain a summation of key points at the end. Health educators have also utilized the fotonovela because the medium overcomes issues of health literacy, which is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process and understand basic health information to make appropriate health decisions, in their target audience. Most providers believe that health education materials designed specifically for patients with low health literacy would be helpful: however, written educational materials found in most health settings have been deemed to have serious deficiencies.


Notable examples


Original photo comics

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figurines and sets, as well as speech balloons and caption boxes *'' Killing'' *''
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'' by Joey Comeau and Emily Horne. *'' Doomlord'' by Alan Grant and John Wagner. *'' Alien Loves Predator'' by Bernie Hou. *'' Transparent Life'' by Charlie Beck *''
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'' by Anthony van Winkle and Eli Black-Mizuta.
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''. * Louis Salvérius and Raoul Cauvin once made a one-shot photo comic strip parodying their own series '' Les Tuniques Bleues'' with themselves dressed up as their characters. * ''Mannetje en Mannetje'' (''Little Man and Little Man'') by
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and Peter de Wit. * ''Christopher's Punctured Romance'' by
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is a French cartoonist who takes photographs or makes photocopies, which he then changes with colors and pencil. * ''@$$hole'' by Trevor Mueller * ''Kwakzalver en Knettergek'' by Nix. * ''God en Klein Pierken'' by Nix and Bart Schoofs. * The work of Dutch Internet artist Kakhiel. * ''Crimefighters'' by Fjodor Buis and
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. * ''Happenstance'' by Stephen Saperstein Frug, which used color photographs, sometimes intentionally blurred, to tell the story of a character with
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(the inability to recognize faces). * ''Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime'', a book by Ge Wang. * ''
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'' magazine by John Holmstrom et al. frequently used the photo comics format for interviews and other features, notably in the case of two full-length photo comics "The Legend of Nick Detroit" (#6, October 1976), and "Mutant Monster Beach Party" (#15, July/August 1978). * ''The Last Gay Man on Earth'', an autobio graphic novel by Ype Driessen.


Film adaptations

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'' (1979) *'' Blair Witch Project, The'' (2000) *'' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' (1979) *''
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'' (1980) *'' The Champ'' (1979) *''
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'' (1980) *''
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'' (1977) *'' Grease'' (1978) *''
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'' (1979) *'' Heaven Can Wait'' (1978) *''
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'' (1979) *'' Outland'' (1981) (large format) *''
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'' (1979) *''
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'' (1975) *''
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'' (1977) *'' Star Trek: The Motion Picture: The Photostory'', edited by Richard J. Anobile (1980) *'' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Photostory'', by Richard J. Anobile (1982)


Television adaptations

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'' published by West Cape Corporation in 1983 *''
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'' – Twelve episodes were adapted. **''
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'', published November 1977 **''
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'', published December 1977 **''
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'', published January 1978 **''
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'', published February 1978 **'' All Our Yesterdays'', published March 1978 **'' The Galileo Seven'', published May 1978 **'' A Piece of the Action'', published June 1978 **''
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'', published July 1978 **'' Day of the Dove'', published August 1978 **'' The Deadly Years'', published September 1978 **''
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See also

* Photo-romance, an alternative term for photo comics *
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References


Further reading

* Jan Baetens, ''The film photonovel: a cultural history of forgotten adaptations'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019, * Jan Baetens
"The photo-novel, a minor medium?"
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