Love is ...
A series of acrylic paintings paying homage to the comic strip created by New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali (née Grove) in the 1960s, on original theater-used lobby cards showcasing some of my favorite relationships in film.
Movies capture the complexities of human connection and express love and relationships in diverse ways. Love can be fierce and all-consuming or quiet and understated. Love is complicated, messy, and even painful, but it's worth fighting for. Movies remind us that love is never straightforward nor easily defined.
Concept - I was introduced to the "Love is..." comics by my amazing wife. She used to cut them out, save them, and sometimes share them with me when they reminded her of us.
Here is a selection of lobby cards that will be painted over the next 2-3 weeks. You can reserve specific lobby cards with a deposit before the public sale on February 3, 2024.
Love Is... is a comic strip created by New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali (née Grove) in the 1960s. The cartoons originated from a series of love notes that Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. They were published in booklets in the late 1960s before appearing in strip form in a newspaper in 1970, under the pen name "Kim". They were syndicated soon after, and the strip is syndicated worldwide today by Tribune Content Agency. One of her most famous drawings, "Love Is...being able to say you are sorry", published on February 9, 1972, was marketed internationally for many years in print, on cards, and souvenirs. The beginning of the strip coincided closely with the 1970 film Love Story. The film's signature line is "Love means never having to say you're sorry." At the height of their popularity in the early to mid-1970s, the cartoons were earning Casali around five to six million dollars annually. - Wikipedia