Cecil &
Dipstik started on the Op-Ed page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
in 1975 and lived there the next four years. I left the paper
in '79 and signed C & D with a California closet-syndicate,
NoseToot Features. In '80 we were flown to New York and wined
and dined by the Chicago Tribune / New York News syndicate.
That was a Bum Jump --
After catching
a bad dose of multiple sclerosis off a toilet seat in '81, I retired
to Mexico in '85. Nicky and I moved to Boulder City, 25 miles
SE of Las Vegas NV, in 1989. I resurrected Cecil & Dipstik
in the town weekly for therapy and the dynamic duo lived here until
1996.
(Winning four 1st place Nevada Press Awards) Irritated by a petty editor,
they wandered out on the Mojave Desert that year. The last time
I saw them, they were sitting on a flat rock questioning questions: