Ned Riddle served in the Navy as a navigator's assistant aboard the submarine, the USS Piranha during World War II. To entertain the crew, he drew caricatures of his superiors for a weekly newsletter. After he returned to the United States, Mr. Riddle graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. He continued his artistic endeavors and began painting in watercolors. In the 1950s, the Dallas Morning News hired Riddle to work as a commercial artist. The newspaper editors at the paper were so impressed with his work that they suggested he should syndicate his cartoons, and syndication executives in New York told him to focus on drawing a single character. As a result, in 1953 he created Mr. Tweedy, which was picked up for syndication in 1954 by General Features and even saw a book published in 1960. In 1961 he resigned from the Dallas Morning News to concentrate on his strip full-time. For 34 years, from 1954-1987, Mr. Tweedy, which also used sequential panels on occasion, saw publication in newspapers in the United States, Canada, Australia and South America. Mr. Riddle passed away on October 14, 2003, from complications of a stroke at 81 years of age. (Adapted from Wikipedia). Mr. Tweedy is the Everyman who constantly finds himself humiliated, embarrassed, and over his head. He is the Mr. Bean of his day.

Reprints over 240 black & white pages of Mr. Tweedy strips in a large one strip per page format. Strips are from the 1950s-1960s and 1980s. Available on Complete Inventory USB.