Ficpic
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A ficpic is a fanfic type story told through pictures with speech bubbles and captions. The term is sometimes used to name an image that inspires a fic, leading to confusion.
Ficpics resemble the popular Italian Photo comics also known in English as fumetti,[1] photonovels,[2] photoromances,[3] and in Portuguese as fotonovelas, where stories were serialized through photos of actors' performances instead of through illustrations.
The use of images with speech bubbles organized in sequence to create a cohesive textual scene is quite common throughout the fandom as a whole. Films, series and soap operas were printed and sold this way in several countries, such as Star Trek.[2] Fans then started to create their versions with images from these media, but with their own stories.
Examples of Use
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References
- ^ M. Keith Booker (ed.), Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 1821 ("Webcomics and New Media").
- ^ a b Muir, John Kenneth (10 November 2005). "John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Retro Toy Flashback # 16: Photonovels". reflectionsonfilmandtelevision. Archived from the original on 2006-03-09.
- ^ "The Photoromance". MIT Press. 2020-09-22. Archived from the original on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2022-09-03.