RETOOLED WEB SITE: DonMarquis.com has been redesigned and expanded, with a new blog feature, a scrolling display of aphorisms, and photos and drawings you’ve never seen before. A story outlining the changes has been posted to the In the News section at right. (Caveat: We’re not quite finished adding links and photos. Check out the blog items for the most interesting new images.)

This web site celebrates the work of Don Marquis, a New York newspaper columnist, humorist, poet, playwright and short-story writer in the early decades of the last century. He won early fame as the chronicler of the Old Soak — a pickled foe of Prohibition — and lasting fame as the beloved “boss” of a cockroach wise beyond his years and an alley cat dancing through her ninth life: the immortal Archy and Mehitabel.

DonMarquis.com holds the largest collection of Marquis material anywhere outside of a library, including sketches, poems and photos that haven’t been published in nearly 100 years. Read and enjoy and explore. Click on the pics to see larger images, and click on the links for rich content elsewhere. And if you have a story to tell, or you can’t find a favorite Archy sketch, please send email.