He was known for several newspaper comic strips in the 1930s and 1950s, including Dumb Dora and Sandy Hill, as well as a series of humorous books of Southern slang published in the 1970s.
Dwyer left Ohio State after only a few months to enroll in the Yale School of Art, in part to be closer to the New York publishing world.
[2][3] Comics historian Don Markstein was dismissive about Dwyer's era on the strip, and called his later works Sandy Hill and Mr. Dilly "even more minor.
[4] When Mother Was a Girl, also created by Chic Young, was a "topper" to Dumb Dora that was laid out above the main strip in the comics pages.
[7] A 1975 article in the Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal claims that he worked for Walt Disney in the 1940s as unit production director on Bambi and Fantasia.
[11] At some point he moved with his wife to the small town of Horse Shoe, North Carolina to become a cattle and hog farmer, while also teaching art via correspondence and trying to market a series of his own inventions including a plastic artists' palette and various kitchen appliances.