Lys Mykyta

Lys Mykyta («Лис Микита»; Fox Mykyta). A magazine of humor and satire published and edited from 1947 to 1990 by Edvard Kozak, who was also its principal caricaturist and cartoonist. Its name is taken from Ivan Franko’s famous book of fables in verse about a wily fox. Originally a semimonthly, until March 1949 Lys Mykyta was published in Munich. Interrupted during Kozak’s emigration to the United States of America, it reappeared in New York in 1950 under the abbreviated title Lys (until April 1951). From November 1951 Lys Mykyta was published in Detroit, first as a semimonthly to the end of 1953, then once every three weeks, and then monthly from 1957. It satirized Ukrainian émigré life and politics and was especially biting in its portrayal of Soviet rule in Ukraine. Among its contributors were Ivan S. Kernytsky, Bohdan Nyzhankivsky, Stepan Ryndyk, Mykola Ponedilok, Myron Levytsky, I. Manylo, Oleksander Smotrych, Borys Oleksandriv, and Z. Kohut.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]