Tweedledum and Tweedledee the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams", satirising the disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, written by John Byrom (1692–1763): Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. While the familiar form of the rhyme was not printed until around 1805, when it appeared in "Original Ditties for the Nursery", it is possible that Byrom was drawing on an existing rhyme. The characters are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There" (1871).
Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (comics) Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two fictional characters, a duo of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily known as enemies of Batman. Tweedledum and Tweedledee first appeared in "Detective Comics" #74 (April 1943), and were created by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and Don Cameron. Dumfree Tweed and Deever Tweed are cousins who resemble each other so closely that they are often mistaken for identical twins. The pair are known as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both as a play on words on their real names, and because they closely resemble Sir John Tenniel's depictions