'Freddy'.
Robert "Rupe" Baldwin attended courses at the Corcoran Art School of Washington. His main focus was to become a painter, but financial reasons drove him to humorous illustration and eventually comics. After several works for comic books (Prize Comics, Spook Comics), he took on the newspaper strip about the chubby kid 'Freddy' (1955-1980), syndicated by the Washington Star Syndicate and later Field Enterprises. Baldwin was assisted by Howard Rands in the 1960s, and some of the writings were done by his wife, Helen.