{"id":192,"date":"2007-11-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/11\/jargon-for-the-jaded\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:00:00","slug":"jargon-for-jaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Jargon for the Jaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it extremely difficult to avoid coming off like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9780375423321\">Harry Naybors<\/a> whenever I try to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2007\/11\/11\/everyones-a-critic-there-is-no-language-in-our-lungs\/\">discuss things like comics terminology<\/a>, but fortunately not everything about jargon is necessarily so deadly. It&#8217;s likely common knowledge to everyone else, but the origin of the term &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">fumetti<\/span>&#8221; was new to me when I recently read it in a footnote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videowatchdog.blogspot.com\/\">Tim Lucas<\/a>&#8216;s excellent-so-far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bavabook.com\/\">biography of Mario Bava<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The word <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">fumetti<\/span> means &#8220;smokes&#8221; and it was coined for this medium of storytelling [comics told through photographs] because the Italians likened the word balloons used to convey dialogue to puffs of smoke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m a sucker, but to me, that&#8217;s just a beautiful metaphor. In fact, it&#8217;s beautiful enough to make me want to become a fan of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">fumetti<\/span> (as irrational as that chain of logic may be). Does anyone know of any photo-funnies that really work? I mean, that are worth reading more than once? In the meantime, I&#8217;ve got some old issues of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">National Lampoon<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Weirdo<\/span> to look through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it extremely difficult to avoid coming off like Harry Naybors whenever I try to discuss things like comics terminology, but fortunately not everything about jargon is necessarily so deadly. It&#8217;s likely common knowledge to everyone else, but the origin of the term &#8220;fumetti&#8221; was new to me when I recently read it in a footnote from Tim Lucas&#8216;s excellent-so-far biography of Mario Bava: The word fumetti means &#8220;smokes&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[299,465,1300],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-clowes","tag-fumetti","tag-t-lucas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}