Photo-Comics !!!!!!!!!

[WL Lilly]

...( To Gilles MAURICE ) Photo-comics have , at least
in my experience , tended to be called 
" fumettis " in the United States , which I always
understood to be an Italian phrase . ( I assume you're
French ? ) I suppose the most " prominent " , arguably
, examples of them in the U.S.A. were
  (1) - When Harvey Kurtzman's attempted 
" new  MAD " the James Warren-published
 " HELP ! " magazine , did them in the early-middle
Sixties , these being comedic/satirical ones , often
with fairly well-known actors , as well as " HELP "
staff , in them - I believe that these ones introduced
the phrase to th U.S....and , in ( admitted )
emulation of this , Marvel Comics' 1970s attempt at a
MAD-style magazine , " CRAZY " , did them in the
Seventies...using Marvel staffers as the main/only
 " actors " , so , they were rather more " amateur " .
  (2) - I remember a 70s attempt at putting out recent
, popular , movies ( Grease . Star Trek The Motion
Picture ) in paperback fumettis , with word balloons
over movie stills... it didn't last long ,
 I guess   word-balloons against . I recall seeing ,
in the late 80s , attempted romance photo-comics
( I doubt that they used the word " fumetti " ,
actually...Likewise the movie adaptations . ) , I
don't 
know whether they were reprinted Continental European
or British comics or originals . Actually , the
Pokemon movies have had English-language fumetti "
from-the-stills " adaptations fairly widely circulated
in the U.S. ( just as other Japanese productions have
had less widely circulated 
" cell-comics "...like you theorize the non-BarksWorld
Disney comics , in the Disney Universe , being ! ) -
so , the growing popularity of manga stuff in general
has given that publishing format a bit more of a hold
in the U.S. , it seems that , otherwise , it's always
been pretty marginal over here , whether live-photos
or ani-cell reprints...And , I guess that " fumetti "
, as a 
term , never went very much far beyond U.S. comics
fans ! ( There were such curiosities as John
Holstrom's old " PUNK " magazine/fanzine doing ones in
the late Seventies ,
with Joey Ramone ( R.I.P. ) and Debbie Harry
participating ! - These were , almost certainly .
inspired by Kurtzman's .        

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