Religion In The Comics - 008

[Cartoonist]

I enjoyed these cartoons during my incarceration in Catholic school. They were about an altar boy who was somewhat of a mischief maker. Sort of a Dennis the Menace of the clergy world. This appealed to the rebel in me though I was pretty much of a well behaved conformist. I tried out to be an altar boy, but I washed out when I couldn't memorize the Latin. I admit I didn't really try that hard. Looking at them now, they are pretty tame. I find it odd that he always wore his raiments, even when he was mopping the floor of the vestibule or taking inventory of the church candles. It's also odd that he didn't seem to have a life away from the church, sort of like an indentured servant. If he had parents, they were never seen, and his origin was unknown.




August 28, 1999 Margaret T. Ahern, a cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared in the Chicago Archdiocese's New World newspaper and the 1950s WGN television show "Cartuno," died Friday in Wheaton following a brief illness.
Mrs. Ahern was a 21-year resident of Wheaton and formerly resided in Maywood. She was 78.
A graduate of the Harrison Art School and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Mrs. Ahern got her first break when a cartoonist at the New World was drafted during World War II. The newspaper has since been renamed the "Chicago Catholic."
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The comics biz was a very male dominated field. So kudos to Margret for her success.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. "Speck" the altar boy?

His name was Speck? LOL. And this was seriously a Catholic cartoon? Too bad you couldn't make it as an altar boy yourself, huh? Say something in Latin to me.

[Cartoonist]

2. Dominus Vobiscum

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Well, that was so

sexy and exciting. I love foreign words.

And with you, cartoonist. You would have made a great altar boy.

[progressoid]

4. All so cute and innocent.

Today's cartoons about altar boys are a little more scathing. Of course they aren't Church sanctioned cartoons.