The Love Is Comic Strip By Kim

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In the 1960's in New Zealand, an artist called Kim Grove drew a series of charming comic strip romantic drawings for her future husband, Roberto Casali. Most of the single panel strips were published in book collections in the late 60's before appearing one self-contained panel at a time in newspaper and magazine syndication from 1970 onwards. The cartoons were always signed simply 'Kim'. The strip featured the discreetly drawn naked couple, the words Love Is.... and a proverbial definition of Love. An early one defined Love as 'Being able to say you are sorry.'. This was parodied in the tag-line for the movie Love Story, 'Love means never having to say you are sorry'. Many of the cartoons get replicated on Valentine's Day greetings cards. In some later cartoons the couple have children, but each cartoon stands alone, with no continuous story or adventure. The strip is now drawn by a writer-artist called Bill Asprey but still uses the name Kim (no surname) in honour of Kim Casali. The strip has its own website at Arthur Chappell