Talk:David George Plotkin

Cartoonist?
The opening sentence refers to him as a cartoonist, but I suspect that's not accurate. The term "cartoonist" is used for those who write and draw their own material, and I cannot find anything which convinces me that Plotkin drew. On his "Follies of the Great" feature, he was working with artist Chuck Thorndike, and on Wasn't the Depression Terrible, O. Soglow gets the only cover credit and the book looks consistently like his work. I suspect that in these matters, Plotkin was a writer, not a cartoonist. I will not alter this myself because I have a conflict of interest in this matter, as the current publisher of Wasn't the Depression Terrible, but others may want to consider whether this descriptor is appropriate. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:47, 5 January 2019 (UTC) Adding: In Time magazine, Monday, Sept. 03, 1934, in a brief piece on Wasn't the Depression Terrible?, they refer to Plotkin as "idea man", which suggests that his part wasn't in the drawing. --Nat Gertler (talk) 03:03, 6 January 2019 (UTC)