Photo comics

Cover of an issue of Killing, an Italian photo comic series published since the 1960s

Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses 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,[1] photonovels,[2] photoromances,[3] 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 melodramas, 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.

  1. ^ M. Keith Booker (ed.), Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 1821 ("Webcomics and New Media").
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Reflections was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The Photoromance". MIT Press. Retrieved 2022-09-03.

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