I just sent an abstract to Vasko Demou, the organizer of the Bristol Theoretical Archaeology Group Meeting (TAG) session, Paper pasts: archaeologies of comics, comic-strips, cartoons, and graphic novels. I’ve wanted to write up my use of fumetti for outreach for a while, and this was the perfect chance, since I was going to TAG anyway to help organize the film festival. Here is the abstract:
Fumetti, Sequential Art, and Visual Narrative Building in Archaeology
Fumetti, or photo comics, are a powerful, but little used tool for narrative building in archaeology. Easily created by a variety of image-manipulation software and distributed online, these examples of archaeological practice as sequential art find a wide audience who are unreachable in more traditional print or image formats. The combination of images and text as a narrative makes nuanced archaeological interpretation easy to understand and pushes the archaeologist to take better, more descriptive photographs while conducting research. In this paper I will describe the history and utility of creating fumetti, their distinct advantages as an interpretive and educational tool, and why comics matter for archaeology in the digital age.
It’s a very TAG-a-rific year for me, as I’m also the graduate student representative for TAG 2011 at Berkeley. Expect more about that soon!
Colleen Morgan 
Isn’t John’s abstract about 3,000 words too long?
This is really interesting – can you point me to some more information about fumetti, please?
Groovy Age of Horror is the internet authority on fumetti comics:
http://groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-purchase-fumetti.html
Wow. Interesting application of fumetti. But I prefer the zany European porno fumetti of the 70s and 80s.