Life diverse is playing tricks.
Does any one of you like it?
Yesterday it was a feast and toasts
And today the doctor and disease.
(Szczutek, Lwów, 1919)
In this period soon after the restoration of the Polish Republic, Kamil Mackiewicz produced several dozen multi-panel cartoons under the title “Fire and sword, or the adventures of crazy Greg — a contemporary story.” As one might guess from the title, there is a picaresque quality to Greg’s adventures, but I don’t know enough yet to make any hasty characterizations of the series. What is striking is that influenza and typhus do not figure in the narrative, despite their prevalence at the time. There is only this indirect gesture in the final panel of episode 27, at Greg’s wedding dinner, following their search for a vicar to marry them.
Sic Transit Pestilentia 