Archy

Archy is right - these guys represent the last gasp of the old guard expatriots who left Cuba in 1959 and still dream of returning in glory someday to reclaim their land.

August 2004 2004

Put in the context of his times, Archy is smarter and funnier than ever.

Introduction 1995

I mention this because the capitalization of Archy is considered the unforgivable sin by a whole raft of old Sun Dial fans who have somehow nursed the illogical idea that because Don Marquis's cockroach was incapable of operating the shift key of a typewriter, nobody else could operate it.

Introduction Elwyn Brooks 1950

Marquis imbibed freely of this carnival air, and it all turned up, somehow, in Archy's report.

Introduction Elwyn Brooks 1950

THEY ARE THE MOST UNLIKELY OF FRIENDS: Archy is a cockroach with the soul of a poet, and Mehitabel is an alley cat with a celebrated past -- she claims she was Cleopatra in a previous life.

Archy and Mehitabel 1935

Mehitabel does not use the typewriting machine at all, so Archy is forced to be her reporter.

Introduction 1933

Clearing a space in the snow he called Archy to assist him, and at once began to build an igloo.

Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The reader will have perhaps noticed that I am capitalizing the name Archy and the name Mehitabel.

Introduction Elwyn Brooks 1950

Her name comes from a wonderful set of stories by Don Marquis called Archy and Mehitable that he wrote beginning in 1916.

Progressive Bloggers 2009

Now this certain person, accused by 'Archy' (Archibald Cameron) of forging a letter from James, with a commission to take part of the hidden hoard, is Young Glengarry.

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878