Aaarrrgh. For two weeks I’ve had a word on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t get any further than that.
There’s a kind of comic strip that uses photographs. This style is often used for “soap opera” strips. I think the word for that style SOUNDS Italian, and I think it has three syllables. I even think it begins with the letter “F”.
This is annoying! Does anybody know what the word is?
I don’t have the word, but will love to search for some when I have a word to search with.
It sounds very interesting. I’ve seen photo-strips in, say, Games Magazine as a puzzle form, but never in a newspaper.
You wouldn’t have a name or link to one, by any chance?
Is it ‘fortællende’?
Timothy Campbell, the word is “fumetti,” named after the smoke-like puffs of dialogue that emanate from the characters’ mouths.
Sophia Loren worked in these very early in her career.
DAMN!!
I had the right site and everything and what do I do? I go and pick the wrong word.
DAMN!
I found my word here. One Mother of a site for cartoon terminology.
But alas, missbunny appears to be correct. The site mentioned lists the word as ‘striscia a fumetti’, or, ‘picture strip’.
DAMN
I was so smug with my search engine induced answer.
My smile has turned to a frown…
Ahhhh! FUMETTI!
Good gosh, how do you like that? I knew:
… yet I couldn’t remember the darn word!
The mind is a wondrous thing.
Thanks for freeing up my neurons for nobler pursuits, MissBunny!
Actually, I should also mention that I strongly suspected it started with “FU”, but I didn’t want this thread to go off on a tangent.
No problem, Timothy Campbell.
I had the same thing happen to me the other day - I was trying to think of the word for a shirt that’s a turtleneck but with a collar not quite so high as a regular turtleneck. Yes, I was racking my brains until I remembered - it’s a “mock” turtleneck. Not only couldn’t I think of the “mock” part, I couldn’t remember that “turtleneck” was part of the name either!