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:
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