Denys Wortman
Mopey Dick and the Duke Cartoons


TNMopey1.JPG (7926 bytes)
"Oh, well, Mopey, what's a measly coupla
billion dollars, anyway?" 
4-14-47

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TNMopey2.JPG (7344 bytes)
"As soon as the World Series is over I suppose
we'll have to take up the foreign situation." 
10-10-38
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"Duke, I'm not going to look at another want ad
until I know exactly how the government is
going to spend that four, eight, nought, nought,
nought, nought, nought, nought, nought dollars."
7-23-45

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"It would be just our luck, Mopey, to have
you run over by a pushcart instead of
a Rolls Royce." 
5-28-47

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"Do you remember, Mopey, when you could
read a newspaper just to forget your troubles?"
4-19-39

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TNMopey6.JPG (9842 bytes)
"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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"Let's see what we aren't going to wear this year, Mopey."
4-23-40

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TNMopey8.JPG (9288 bytes)
"Come on now Mopey, put that dime you got
into circulation."
6-30-32
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TNMopey9.JPG (10637 bytes)
"I'm glad we didn't go away for the summer and rent
this place to tenants, Duke.  We'd be coming back about
now, and we'd probably find everying in a mess."
9-7-49

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TNMopey10.JPG (9537 bytes)
"....but, Duke, of all people, you and I ought to be
able to discuss the national debt without getting mad."
2-8-50
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TNMopey11.JPG (9101 bytes)
"Guess who I saw today?  Mrs. Roosevelt!"
"Is that so, Mopey?  Golly!   And did she
you?"
11-4-42

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TNMopey12.JPG (9174 bytes)
"This is one program I wish we could stop
looking at -- It stinks."
6-16-52
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TNMopey13.JPG (9447 bytes)
"Just for the fun of it, let's turn the television off for
a little while and see if we could entertain ourselves."
12-5-52

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TNMopey14.JPG (8479 bytes)
"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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"What, a town without a library?"
"Where do you go to take a nap?"
7-10-35

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TNMopey16.JPG (8652 bytes)
"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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"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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"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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TNMopey19.JPG (9709 bytes)
"How is the best way to let them know this isn't just
hors d'oeuvres but the whole supper."
4-17-46

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TNMopey20.JPG (9366 bytes)
"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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TNMopey21.JPG (9789 bytes)
"We've come to buy an expensive car with
no down payment."
5-9-32

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TNMopey22.JPG (10136 bytes)
"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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TNMopey23.JPG (8631 bytes)
"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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TNAdlai2.JPG (10507 bytes)
"But Duke, if I could borrow 250 billion dollars and live
on it for 20 years without paying any of it back,
I'd have prosperity too."
1952

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TNFdr.JPG (7536 bytes)
"Let's make up our minds, Mopey, whatever happens,
not to let F.D.R. come between us."
10-30-44

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TNAdlai.JPG (9611 bytes)
"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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