And here’s the original romance art. A woman goes to a restaurant—hoping to woo one of the waiters. But he’s not there. Obviously, she shouldn’t leave a tip.
The story for the original 1960’s romance art (below) has a very different theme. Why study when you can get married?
I couldn’t resist writing a last-minute gag for Valentine’s Day. But I ended up writing four different punchlines for the guy in this comic.
—One sorta sweet. (“You bet!”)
—One sorta rude. ( “I’ve had worse!”)
—One sorta sexy. (“Happy Valentine’s Night!”)
—And the sorta silly one I ended up using.
Which is best? Beats me. For sheer schmaltz, though, I’d vote for the caption in the original romance comic from the 1960s:
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
I love collaborating with Mike Pascale on holiday gags. We always begin by selecting art that Mike can modify (or in this case “Cupify”) to fit the holiday. Then we both think up gags
Many of these are great gags. Wonderful, side-splitting, pee-in-your-pants funny gags.
For the sake of hygiene, we throw all those gags away and just use whatever is left over.
Below is the original art (drawn by Vince Colletta) with the original text as it appeared in an issue of First Kiss in the early 1960s.
And here’s the original First Kiss romance art before it got the Last Kiss treatment…
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