Now it was the cartoons' turn to retcon, changing the screen name Nibbles to Tuffy in the 1957 cartoon Feedin' the Kiddie. He became Jerry's nephew in Life with Tom. But in 1953, the animation writers decided to change his on-screen relationship to Jerry. In the comics, Tuffy remained a peer of Jerry with no familial relationship to him. When the smaller Nibbles design was introduced to animation in 1946, the comics' Tuffy was retconned to match, almost immediately shrinking in size and age, although the name Tuffy was retained. In the classic cartoons, he is an orphan from the Bide A Wee Mouse Home (an orphanage for young mice that was never shown in the series, but was mentioned in letters sent to Jerry). In the comics, the gray mouse's name was given as Tuffy Mouse from the start. The character's first actual appearance came in the 1942 comic book Our Gang Comics #1, where despite his diaper, he was presented as a peer of Jerry rather than a younger individual.
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