Talk:Jim Davis (cartoonist)

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Contents 1 Marriage to Carolyn 2 changed cartoon to comic strip 3 Quotation accuracy 4 mmm... 5 Opinion without a source

[edit] Marriage to Carolyn

The article on Garfield's Halloween special says that their (Garfield & Odie) boat is named after Carolyn's "then-wife". Are they no longer married? For what years were they married and if they did divorce, why?

[edit] changed cartoon to comic strip

I changed 'cartoon' to 'comic strip' in the sentence, "Garfield is now one of the most popular cartoon characters in the world" as the only thing that comes close to agreeing with is garfield's guinness book of records entry for "Most Syndicated Comic Strip"here but this obviously doesn't include all forms of cartoons, also added reference--Johnny 0 18:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotation accuracy

The quote about Gnorm Gnat--is it accurate, or should the wording be changed to match the Gnorm Gnat page? Paul Haymon 22:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mmm...

Ian't he gay? There's cues everywhere in his work and its enough of a controversy to deserve a mention... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.121.144.52 (talk • contribs).

Are you, per chance, basing that on the image in the article? - Dudesleeper · Talk 03:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion without a source

From the article:

"The strip has continued on a downward spiral over the last decade. The barley funny premise that it began with has run out of possible humor and is slowly choking itself to death. Although it seems to still be lucrative with its merchandising deals and whoring itself to hallmark. The public will only appreciate it for so long before even they realize that it is no longer funny. It appears its time to put this kitty to sleep."

I don't see any sort of source given to indicate this might be a quote and as such the comment is little more than one person's opinion about this strip. I'm not up on the Wikipedia writing conventions and don't do much editing myself, but if anyone else finds this passage out of place I really think it should be removed. The comment might be right, but I don't think it belongs in an encyclopedia article.