Kim Casali; Drew ‘Love Is’ Cartoons

Kim Casali, 55, who drew the single-panel cartoon series “Love Is.� Casali, from New Zealand, met her late husband, Roberto Casali, who was from Italy, when they both lived in California. They married in 1972 and moved to England, where he died of cancer in 1976. The cartoonist, who called him “the love of my life,� first made the little cartoon drawings as love notes for her husband. Later, she assembled them in small booklets for visitors at the design company where she worked. Word spread, and soon the cartoons were on greeting cards and in newspapers (including The Times) in 60 countries. One of her sons, Stefano Casali, plans to continue drawing the cartoons. On Sunday in Surrey, England, of undisclosed causes.