 These years of austerity, rationing, world crisis, and financial upheaval were all easy ammunition for his popular daily cartoons.Butterworth abruptly halted his relationship with the Manchester United upon the death of many of his beloved "Busby Babes," and fellow Manchester journalists in the Munich Air Disaster.He stated at the time that he could not find folly in it anymore

Between 1956 and 1968, Butterworth found regular inspiration writing a daily comic strip "The Daily Dees," which chronicled a family with two girls and a boy.