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A Photo Roman ( also photo comic ) is a sequence of individual photographs, similar to the stills of a film, which together make up a story. Often dialogues are inserted in the photos. In general, there are melodramatic love stories. Although there are brief asides, occasionally connect the pictures, but long passages of text do not occur.

In magazines such as "Bravo" can still be found photo novels, usually it involves heart -pain stories from the teen scene. Even the satirical magazine Titanic publishes such photo novels, usually with photos political prominence.

In the Internet age the photo novel lives but again, often in the form of student work for a website. All kinds of pictures are sometimes combined into a photo story on private websites. Professionally made ​​photo novels and comics, there is also the internet very few. In most photo comics are productions where the stories are told with the help of toy figures. The German superhero comic Photo " Union of Heroes " is one of the few exceptions, to be used in the living actor.