Love is... is a comic panel created by Kim Grove in the late 1960s, and was later produced by Stefano Casali. The strip is syndicated worldwide by Tribune Media since 1970. Love Is... began as a series of little love notes that Kim Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. 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."
Known primarily for its cute little naked couple, Love is...products were marketed internationally for many years on greeting cards and on all sorts of cute knick-knacks.
More current versions of the the couple have them fully clothed, erasing the charm of the original concept.
This little fella has gathered up all his fruits and veggies for the harvest feast. I wonder why "For Auld Lang Syne" is called out, perhaps the phrase we now associate with New Year's started out as a Thanksgiving greeting?
Is it possible to be both wicked and cute? Well, this red-haired hag certainly isn't scary. From the illustration style depicted, I believe this image was from a greeting card circa 1970s. "No Magic Spell...No Witches Brew...Can Keep Me Away from You!" That is wickedly cute.
After doing a bit of research, we here at Hello There Cutie have learned that "Sillisculpts" are the name for these popular, but peculiar rubbery-hard, molded little statuettes. The subjects were either of cute and/or pathetic figures situated on a base with an adorable or humorous saying "carved" into it. These card store novelty items were introduced in 1968 by R&W Berrie and became quite a fad because these goofy knickknacks that had a much longer shelf life than the average greeting card and appealed to people of all ages. Other companies such as American Greetings produced their own line of statues well into the 1980s.
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