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Roberto Casali was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1975 and Kim stopped working on the cartoon to spend more time with him. Casali commissioned London-based
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shown other than the woman having dots for nipples. He is identified by his short black hair, and she by her light waist-length hair. The characters have been featured in various stages of romance: just meeting, dating, as a young married couple, and in old age. Although not usually named, a 1974
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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
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