DON MARQUIS (1878-1937) wrote daily for the New York Sun and Herald Tribune and was author of many books. JEFF ADAMS is a wine industry marketing executive and lives in Northern California. ED FRASCINO is a New Yorker cartoonist and illustrator of many books, including Rudyard Kipling's Elephant Child and E.B. White's Trumpet of the Swan. He lives in Los Angeles.
"archy is more peripatetic than usual in these books -- he moves
away from his old haunts in New York in order to observe the
strange goings on in Paris, though with that same jaundiced eye . .
. Marquis's gifts as a comic satirist have often been written
about. Less has been said about the fact that he was also tilting
at the excesses of American writers of bad free verse when he had
archy write in the way that he did . . . [he created] two of
America's most enduring comic characters."--The Economist
"Fans of Marquis can take heart, there's still more to come . . .
Allegedly hurling himself headlong at the keys of Marquis'
typewriter by night, archy would tap out his lower-case
observations on our place in the cosmos while mehitabel pranced
down Shinbone Alley . . . It's grand to see there's a dance or two
in the old dame yet."--Boston Sunday Globe
"Some years ago Jeff Adams, a Marquis buff, turned up a trove of
papers containing a number of works by archy the cockroach which
had escaped inclusion in any Marquis anthology. Four appeared at
the time in The Atlantic, but problems with illustrations have
delayed book publication until the present. Now, happily for true
archyphiles and admirers of subtle encroachment, here they all are,
with witty drawings by Ed Frascino."--The Atlantic
"This sweet, sweet volume brings Marquis (and his cockroach and
cat) back to us. It's such an unexpected treat . . . Readers (and
children and grandchildren of readers) of Don Marquis will dearly
love and welcome this book."--Washington Post
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