Hector: The Hero of Asbestosland (Hector: le héros du pays de l'amiante) (c. 1959)

A bilingual French and English booklet of cartoons about Hector, a miner created in the fall of 1955 by the European cartoonist Gerhard Brinkmann for The Asbestos Producer, the Quebec asbestos industry's monthly newspaper. Its introduction presents Hector as the cheerful face of some 6,000 asbestos workers in the Eastern Townships, which it says supplied more than 65 per cent of the free world's asbestos. The cartoons show life in the open pits, mines and mills of Asbestos, Thetford Mines and Black Lake, including a son who wants to make Santa Claus an asbestos suit. It is industry public relations aimed at workers and says nothing about health.