Ramon Ward Collins (March 17, 1931 – March 28, 2021) was an American cartoonist who joined the staff of the ''

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'' as a staff artist in 1950. He was appointed art director of magazines in 1964 and political cartoonist in 1970. Collins drew a comic strip titled '' Cecil C. Addle'' that appeared on the op-ed page from 1975 to 1979. Collins left the ''Post Intelligencer'' in 1979, with a distribution agreement with the ''

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'' Syndicate. Cecil & Dipstick appeared in Seattle, Palo Alto and

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, then stopped. Collins worked in television from 1981 to 1985. His cartoons appeared in Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston and Atlanta Collins and his wife, Nicky, lived in Mexico for years. They moved to

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, where he continued to draw his strip for a local weekly paper until 1996. Cecil & Dipstick won four first place in the Nevada Press Awards. Ray Collins died of

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(ALS) on March 28, 2021, at the age of 90.

Publications

* Ray Collins. ''Dipstick & friends: With quotes from her royal guver-nuss''. Working Press (1977). * Ray Collins. ''Everything's great in '78: Further adventures of Cecil C. Addle and Dipstick''. Madrona Publishers (1978). * Ray Collins. ''Zumbasoo: the adventure of ringle tang''. Bright Ring Publishing (2001).

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Sample Cecil & Dipstick cartoon Samples of Collins' cartoon illustrations for Owen's cooking column
1931 births 2021 deaths American comics artists People from Rockford, Illinois {{US-cartoonist-stub