Teddy Tail was a UK newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in The Daily Mail from 5 April 1915. It was the 1st daily cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions)

The character survived until the 1960s with several artists drawing newspaper strips & the varied annuals. Such was his popularity that other newspapers created their own cartoon characters, the Daily Express with Rupert Bear the Daily Mirror with Pip, Squeak & Wilfred.

The first variant of Teddy Tail was drawn by Charles Folkard (1878–1963) who wrote & illustrated Teddy Tail from 1915 until the late 1920s

Teddy Tail is always seen with a knot in his tail. Only from reading his first 1915 published Annual The Adventures of Teddy Tail of The Daily Mail do you see his tail is knotted purposely to help his friend Dr. Beetle escape from a hole he had fallen into

"Then a dreadful thing happened. We couldn't get the knot undone. I don't think much of Dr. Beetle as a Doctor. He oiled & patted it, but it was no good. My beauty has gone for ever."

In April 1933 Teddy Tail was revived by the Daily Mail, with new drawings by Herbert Sydney Foxwell (1890–1943) who was already known as a cartoon illustrator having drawn Tiger Tim since the mid-1920s for the Amalgamated Press, later known as Fleetway. Tiger Tim had been part of the Bruin Boys since the early 1900s & featured in the Playbox annual since 1910 as well as his own annual since 1922. This second incarnation of Teddy Tail drew him as a schoolboy aged character & was aimed more at younger readers. He was part of a family group that lived in the village of Whiskertown including the 'Whisker Pets' which were looked after by Mrs Whisker, an adult mouse. Piggy the pig, Kitty Puss the cat & Dougie the duck.

Teddy Tail annuals were issued from 1933 to 1940. Merchandising, following similar successes with Mickey Mouse were popular, such items as small toys, cut-outs, jigsaws & Teddy Tail biscuits were made.