Ethel the Secretary was a character who frequently was included in Stale Pancakes 9 comics. The plan was to have her be secretly a sort of fungal entity that has instances of herself all around town.

Ethel appears as the secretary to the mayor of Rainbow Valley. She lets Willy go see the mayor to make his appeal about Joe's killing of common park ducks.

Here, Ethel appears as the secretary in Nutshack Assylum, where Dave is being held as a diagnosed psychopath. Here, she declines Willy's request to access the ventilation shafts. Makes sense to me

Ethel appears only in the background, as a librarian in the Rainbow Valley Public Library. I wonder if she sings in the Tuesday karaokes.