Hecate Cigarettes

The most obscure character on our website Miss Hecate is a cartoon who we are working to learn more about the history of. Although she appears in various pieces of art we have been hard pressed to find details about her creation, what studio was responsible for her animations and so on.

For a character with such a large body of work she is frustratingly difficult to learn about, and she is one of the reasons we founded the Pendog Creative Library, to figure out just what the story is behind this mysterious character. Accounts of her carry on well into the 30s but (at this time) artistic depictions go no earlier than the 50s. Even then this information was hard to find, much work was done just for the scraps of a story we are determined to put together

We are not certain whether Hecate started out as a cartoon character for entertainment or for advertising. This is the earliest surviving artistic rendition of Miss Hecate and as can be seen here it is horridly defaced. From here artistic depictions of her cannot be found until the 50s. 

This archive item is dedicated to Ick@ck, we miss you so much.