Welcome to the Two Worlds of Denys Wortman
The Life and Works of Denys Wortman
Painter and Cartoonist









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     Denys Wortman - NA               1887-1958

"We cartoonists are happy that Denys Wortman has thrown in his lot with our profession.  With his great talent he had his choice of
all branches of the arts."

"Besides, Denny is a great guy - with a blue eye that never loses
its joyous twinkle."

                 - Rube Goldberg

Being an election year, I thought it would be fun to feature a few of Dad's cartoons relating to

presidential elections and the economy as seen through the eyes of Mopey Dick and the Duke.

I hope you enjoy them.

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"Before I listened to his speech I was awfully confused. 
Now he's made it perfectly clear why we shouldn't vote for him." 

(6-13-52)

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"What with all the science they have, Duke, I don't see
why they ain't perfected a machine to choose the
best man for President, and save us citizens from
fretting and worrying about it."

(11-3-32)

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"The way all these people want to get into the White
House, you'd think they were being evicted."

(6-7-52)

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"They both look like good men to me, Mopey, and I
think we oughta elect 'em both, because these
days we need all the brains we got."
(9-22-52)

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"I'm not going to listen to another political speech,
because my mind's all made up and I'm so afraid
I'll change it."
(10-25-52)

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"The way I figure it, if we both vote the same way we
might elect a president, but it we split our vote,
Congress may have to decide it."

(11-5-40)

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"Do you realize, Duke, it's the likes of you
and me who'll have to pay all this debt
the government is piling up."

(3-19-35)

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"I got it all figured out, Mopey, just as soon as people
begin to spend the money they ain't got, we'll
have good times again."

(1-27-32)

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"You know, Mopey, our credit is no good, so we don't
owe anybody.  If we go to work, we'll have good credit
and buy things and owe everybody."

(3-14-49)

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"We've come to buy an expensive car with
no down payment."
(5-9-32)