Hector's Hectic Life #3 by Lem

The Hector cartoons often reflected something that had been in the news at the time (1958-1959) I was doing them. I was 17-18 years old. There must have been an item about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. This was a subject I knew almost nothing about. A lot of things about sex were not openly discussed in the fifties. This was before I learned my best friend was Gay.The cartoon below was a sketch done on yellow-lined notebook paper in pencil. I inked a similar sketch in ink later. You will notice a dog in some of the Hector cartoons, but not in others. I was oscillating between Hector being a man or a dog.If you look closely, you will see Larry 58 and Lem appear as blades of grass.

Another problem for the Pope.

A couple other versions of the same gag.