Editing Archy and Mehitabel (section)

{{Short description|Fictional characters created by Don Marquis}}
[[Image:First drawing of Archy.gif|right|thumb|220px|The first illustration of Archy. Seen in an advertisement in the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'' on September 11, 1922, introducing the new column.]]

'''Archy and Mehitabel''' (styled as '''archy and mehitabel''') are [[fiction]]al characters created in 1916 by [[Don Marquis]], a columnist for ''[[The Sun (New York City)|The Evening Sun]]'' newspaper in New York City. Archy, a [[cockroach]], and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial". Their exploits were first collected in the 1927 book ''archy and mehitabel'', which remains in print today, and in two later volumes, ''archys life of mehitabel'' (1933) and ''archy does his part'' (1935). Many editions are recognized by their distinctive illustrations by [[George Herriman]], the creator of ''[[Krazy Kat]].''