Among Sikoryak’s spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters: the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with The Simpsons; the Fourteenth Amendment that solidifies citizenship to everyone born and naturalized in the US is personified by Ms. Marvel; and the Nineteenth Amendment offering women the right to vote depicts Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations.Sikoryak distills the very essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary.

Adapted from R. Sikoryak’s book Constitution Illustrated.

Cecily Lyn Benjamin is an actor, director and writer holding degrees from UCLA and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is an emeritus member of The WorkShop Theater Company and former workshop leader and guest artist with Rehabilitation through the Arts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.  She has appeared in numerous productions including national tours, Off and Off-Off Broadway plays, as well as film and television.  On screen acting credits include: Sing Sing, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, the web-series, Off-Off Kilter, AFI’s One of the Boys and The Friends. Stage credits include: The Revolutionists, The Color of Justice (national tour), Verbatim Verboten, with guest artist Olympia Dukakis, and NY Times Critic’s Pick Interchange at the WorkShop Theater.