Here's a bit of a "fumetti" from a vintage issue of HELP magazine. Attempting to be a humor magazine for adults who may have outgrown MAD, each issue was an uneven mix of funny photo captions and a highlight "fumetti," where actors (usually including at least one famous comedian) offered up page after page of a live action comic strip.
In a parody of The Untouchables, the cast not only included Judy Henske, but a key member of her band, John Forsha. And along with Woody Allen with a mustache, playing "Mr. Big" of the crime syndicate, there was a bit part for Terry Gilliam.
It's been said that Judy opened for Woody Allen at a few early Greenwich Village gigs, while others say there was more to it than that; little Woody and big Judy were an item for a while. AND, more than that, Woody based his "Annie Hall" character partly on Judy. Certainly it wasn't a coincidence that both the fictional Annie and the real-life Judy were both from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
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