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  • noun Plural form of fumetto.

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Examples

  • It's a rare example of a "fumetti"-type comic that is actually on par with a more traditionally-illustrated funnybook, and highly recommended.

    Archive 2006-03-12 2006

  • It's a rare example of a "fumetti"-type comic that is actually on par with a more traditionally-illustrated funnybook, and highly recommended.

    Archive 2006-03-12 2006

  • And that's because they also reprint, in the back, the Dr. Barnard fumetti, which is more of a hospital-themed sex romp.

    Archive 2009-05-24 2009

  • This time he enlisted such celebrity comedians as Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Lewis to grace its covers, published American versions of the Italian photos-plus-dialogue-balloons stories known as fumetti, starring among others an unknown British actor named John Cleese, then appearing off-Broadway, and an aspiring cartoonist named R. Crumb.

    The Matisse of Mad Magazine 2009

  • If someone knows it and wants to share, I'd be eternally grateful, as this kind of fumetti were always published without including the artists' names although the French translations apparently did have that info.

    Oltretomba N. 251: Bocca Muta (Mute Mouth), Published in August, 1982 2009

  • This was my first experiment with "live action comics" which I actually thought I had invented, forgetting for a moment there was a whole tradition called "fumetti" where captions are added to photos!

    Archive 2009-06-01 Pete Von Sholly 2009

  • This was my first experiment with "live action comics" which I actually thought I had invented, forgetting for a moment there was a whole tradition called "fumetti" where captions are added to photos!

    THE WOODS Pete Von Sholly 2009

  • Anyway I did a "fumetti" adaptation of the story adding just a couple of minor gross story points but hopefully respecting the material.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Pete Von Sholly 2008

  • Anyway I did a "fumetti" adaptation of the story adding just a couple of minor gross story points but hopefully respecting the material.

    Dread Alive Pete Von Sholly 2008

  • I hope, for our friend Curt, someone will soon translate some "fumetti" into english language...

    BIANCANEVE, Pt. 3 2006

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  • In cartoons, the art of drawing conversation balloons in endlessly different ways. Coined by Mort Walker.

    Prolagus, I'm sure you'll recognize this one--Walker derived it from the Italian word. :-)

    April 22, 2008

  • Definitely :-)

    April 22, 2008