Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Bill Ward in the story “Rapture at Homecoming Time” in DIARY LOVES #8, 1951. Curious about the original vintage comic book? Click the link to read the entire issue for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man in a suit with a curvy woman in a low-cut cocktail dress and long, opera gloves. The man has one hand on her shoulder and is holding one of the woman’s hands with his other hand. He’s smiling and she looks—bored? Resentful? Miffed? Trapped? Some combo of all these things?
MAN: So you really like me?
WOMAN: “Like” is such a strong word!
1951 Art: Bill Ward Re-ink & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira Dialogue: John Lustig
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SCENE: Man in a suit with a curvy woman in a low-cut cocktail dress and long, opera gloves. The man has one hand on her shoulder and is holding one of the woman's hands with his other hand. He's smiling and she looks---bored? Resentful? Miffed? Trapped? Some combo of all these things?
MAN: So you really like me?
WOMAN: “Like” is such a strong word!
1951 Art: Bill Ward Re-ink & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira Dialogue: John Lustig
DJP.lk189
DiaryLoves8.16.5
MAN: So you really like me?
WOMAN: “Like” is such a strong word!
1951 Art: Bill Ward Re-ink & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira Dialogue: John Lustig
DJP.lk189
DiaryLoves8.16.5
Yes, I’m moderately fond of you, too.
A very cultural issue– in Japan there are teen and young adult suicides over “like” as in “I like you, do you like me?”
“So you really like me?”
“Just until the yeast is gone.”