{{Short description|American painter and comics artist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}} {{Page numbers needed|date=October 2010}} {{infobox comics creator
| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|05|02}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|09|20|1887|05|02}} | area = Painter, Cartoonist | notable works = ''Metropolitan Movies'' | nationality = American }} '''Denys Wortman''' (May 2, 1887 – September 20, 1958) was a painter, cartoonist and comic strip creator.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Wortman, Denys | encyclopedia = American National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2000}}</ref> From 1924 to 1954 he drew the comic strip ''Metropolitan Movies'' (originated by Gene Carr in 1921),<ref>Sturm, James. [https://www.cartoonstudies.org/wortman/ "Original Drawings by Denys Wortman,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193329/https://www.cartoonstudies.org/wortman/ |date=November 17, 2018 }} Center for Cartoon Studies website (March 2008).</ref> which ran in the ''New York World'' and was syndicated nationwide by the World Feature Service<ref>{{cite news |title= Denys Wortman Recalled at Museum of the City of New York |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/arts/design/21wortman.html |date= November 17, 2010 |last= Kino |first= Carol |work= The New York Times }}</ref> and later United Feature Syndicate.<ref name=Booker>Booker, M. Keith. "United Feature Syndicate," in ''Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas'' (ABC-CLIO, 2014), p. 399.</ref>
His work was the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |title= Spare Times for Dec. 31-Jan. 6 |author= Sunita Reddy |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/arts/31spare.html?src=twrhp |newspaper= The New York Times |date= December 30, 2010 |accessdate=January 23, 2011}}</ref>
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