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

[WL Lilly]

--- WL Lilly <liljerryandtheyadayadakiddz at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> ...( 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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