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"First one off of the assembly line..." "An automatic wing waver." "Damn built-in obsolescence!"

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"This Greek-Turkey crisis..." "Turkey?" "There's no turkey here.""No turkey. Boy, oh boy!" "Billions for foreign aid, but at home - nothing!"

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"Howl-bow-wow!" "Stop that. You're a snake...

not a dog!" "Gees! How about that!""This is America!" "A Person can be anything he wants!"

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"Sh-h-h!" "I think we're surrounded by communists.""Howl-bow-wow!" "Quiet! You're not a dog!" "See!"

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"Just a case of passing infatuation!"

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Fuzz-Pop Championships
Bubble-Gum Championship

"Looks like a winner." "The beak! Watch the beak!"

"Why don't you put a red flag on that thing?"

This was the first appearance of Pacquin Penguin in the strip.

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That beak shouldn't be loose without a police escort!

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"I'm a picketing penguin." "Don't ask me why."

"Everybody's doing it." "Gee! I'm just a product of my time."

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo #12 by Lem

"I'm a picketing penguin." "Penguins now!""We penguins demand equal rights!" "The right to fly."

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Rank discrimination!

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"Penguin Equality" "Equal flying rights!"

"Go ahead...rub it in!"

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"I shall overcome." "I shall overcome."
"I shall learn to fly some day-y-y!" "If I ever get over my fear of heights."

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"Remember, we're picketing for equality." "Equality. Yeh! Yep! Yup!"

"Equal Flying Rights." "Equal flying rights indeed.

A Leopard can't change his spots."

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"I'm for Penguins above all!" "What's UPP?" "United Penguin People!""United? But you're "Now I know how

the only Penguin here." Nasser must feel."

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Some remarks about this next sequence:

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo beings a series where Pacquin Penguin believes Charles de Gaulle is his "daddy". You hear little about de Gaulle these days, at least in America. You hear about Charles de Gualle Airport in France, but that doesn't tell you much about the man.

de Gualle was a great military leader and hero of France. Much like Eisenhower here after World War II, he rose to become President of France and served two seven-year terms, not consecutively. He was very outspoken and controversial in the 1960s and staunchly pro-France. He withdrew France from NATO, ordered all foreign military units out of France, criticized the USA over Vietnam, backed the Arabs against Israel because he wanted to preserve the oil flow to France and outraged Canadians when he yelled "Viva le Quebec libre" from a balcony during a speech at the Canadian Centennial World Fair.

In other words, throughout the 'sixties, de Gualle was ever-present in the news. I was struck by how much his profile, with his long nose and paunchy body, resembled a penguin. Need I say more?

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Yes, I'm afraid after all the delay because of my computer crash,there was only this one last Who's Who to do at the Zoo. Now this joins Hector's Hectic Life as a flower in full bloom within the garden.  I will search around for more plantings.

HECTOR'S HECTIC LIFE by Lem

HECTOR'S HECTIC LIFE

Hector's Hectic Life #1 by Lem

I couldn't choose between them.

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Think I'll go see what's on the television tonight.

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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.

Hector's Hectic Life #4 by Lem

Lost dog? May I be of help!

Hector's Hectic Life #5 by Lem

What'd'ya want? Blood?

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I'll never go to that garage again. Listen to the banging under the hood!

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For those born much later than I, this cartoon was drawn before the arrival of the CD. It fact, this cartoon preceded the introduction of the tape cassette. We listened to music on phonographs that played records. In order to do so, a needle was required which scratched along grooves in the record surface while it spun on a turntable.

My first records were on a hard vinyl at 78 rpms. The seventy-eights had a small hole in the center for holding it to the turntable. Then came smaller records called forty-fives (45 rpm), but they had a bigger hole in the center, much bigger. By the time I drew this cartoon, we had advanced to the thirty-three and a third rpm record. These were bigger than the 78s, but were back with the small hole.

Another version of the same cartoon gag.