Love Diary #57

The December 1968 cover of Charlton's Love Diary #57 sets a quietly charged romantic mood, with a dark-haired young woman and a suited man leaning in for a kiss amid a lush garden of red roses. José Luis García-López handles both pencils and inks, and the tender, close composition feels genuinely romantic rather than overwrought. A small inset vignette in the corner — a woman's face accompanied by the melancholy words "You're not real… I made you up too. I'm still alone… and I always will be!" — hints at heartache just beneath the surface of that headline story, "This Fantastic Man.