Archy and Mehitabel Author:Don, And George Herriman Marquis Humor; Poetry — Don Marquis first introduced archy the cockroach and mehitable, a cat in her ninth life, in his newspaper column, "The Sun Dial." in 1916. In a previous incarnation archy was a free-verse poet, while mehitabel's soul once belonged to Cleopatra. She is toujours gai, but archy is more philosophical. It is he who... more » records their songs and observations on the boss's typewriter late at night. But he is not strong enough to make capital letters so it all comes out in lower case: