The incredible story of love and gum Bashny.Net

In the late 80's on the market of sweets USSR broke Turkish firm Intergum, causing her soft bubble gum «Love Is» low blow for Roofing Plant Rot-Front. Unusually tasty at the time Intergama products wrapped in the famous liner with aphorisms about love boy and girl, captured a good part of the gum market in Russia, as well as the minds of all boys and girls in the yard. Compete with it could develop that boyish series Turbo, but before the faceless "vriglis sugar" and orbits with Dirol was even 5 years.

While the collection of loose leaves gum Love Is was in every other schoolgirls However, the history of the emergence of these inserts known to few.

The author of the famous paintings is New Zealander Kim Casali Grove (Kim Grove Casali), came up with his first comics in 1970. It was the year of the premiere of the film "Love Story", whose slogan is the text "Love means never have occasion to say you're sorry» («Love means never having to say you're sorry»). Kim started to draw sketches on napkins, on which was depicted bellied girl without any special sexual characteristics, and a little later the same boy These wipes Kim gave her future husband, Roberto Casali (Roberto Casali), charming Italians. This unusual way of courting Kim quickly charmed Roberto and soon they were married.



The first pictures were black and white and appeared in the newspaper Los Angeles Times, and some time later gained huge popularity and were published every week on the last page of the newspaper. In 1975, Kim met with the British artist, Bill Asprey (Bill Asprey). In 1978, the British newspaper "Mail on Sunday» (Mail on Sunday) asked him to create a special, color version of comics for the British. Bill agreed, and after a while these pictures picked up a Turkish gum maker Intergam who has made comic inserts his gum «Love Is».

In this way before us and got these nice pictures about love. Kim Casali died in 1997, and Bill Asprey continues, now 34 years old, to draw all the new stories about a girl with a boy. According to rumors, he has recently learned that his drawings were wrapped gum. Neverending Story can also read online Gocomics, new series appear there every day.

Today find cud Love Is in Russia is not easy, in the shops, it is not for sale. However, there is a site gumlovers.ru, where you can order this cud. Also inserts site collect stories of love and even staged a contest: write its continuation of the phrase "Love - is ..." and win a romantic dinner, tickets to a show or exhibition (more online). In short despite the marketing tricks of competitors, fans Love Is not giving up and are loyal to your favorite chewing gum

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