Ray Collins (comics creator)

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Cartoonist Ray Collins joined the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 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 Seattle Post Intelligencer in 1979, with a distribution agreement with the Chicago Tribune/New York Baily News Syndicate. He lived in California, Louisiana, Ohio, Oregon and Mexico before moving to a town 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas in 1989, where he continued to draw his strip for a local weekly paper until 1996. C&D won four first place Nevada Press Awards for the Boulder City (Nevada) News.