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Film Comic

Aka anime comic, Cine-Manga (a trademark of Tokyopop), Ani-Manga, visual manga.

In this genre, the artist adapts animation to the comic-book medium by taking actual frames from the cartoon and adding word balloons. Often made obvious by the difference between characters and background.

This seems to be originally an anime/manga thing that has spread to the West. It is not known how closely related to fumetti this phenomenon might be.

Especially funny if the anime was a manga first. Recursive Adaptation here we go!

Apparently this medium experienced a brief boom in the United States circa 1980, when it was known as "Film Novels", but faded when home video became popular because it was marketed as a substitute for being able to watch the actual movie.

Examples:

Anime

Bleach
Chobits
Dragon Ball
Detective Conan
Inu Yasha
Love Hina
Tenchi Muyo!. I forget which series, but I think it's the first.
Pokémon had one of these adapting Pokémon: The First Movie, and a Nintendo Power book did it for the first six episodes of the original series.
Captain Harlock: According to one source, this was the first anime to get one of these.
Uchuu Senkan Yamato
Steamboy

Western Animation

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Jackie Chan
lots of Disney series
Spongebob Square Pants
Honourable mention to Tintin and the Lake of Sharks: according to The Other Wiki, the comic book was "made to look like still images from the film" by purposeful use of Conspicuously Light Patch.
Transformers Animated
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Sort of used in The Beano following the new Dennis the Menace (UK) TV series with stock art from the show appearing in the comic sometimes with speech bubbles. Inverted with The Beano video which used excerpts from the comic for its animation and averted with The Beano Superstars adaptations of episodes of the earlier Dennis the Menace (UK) TV series which just used the script from the show with new artwork.