Talk:Marvin (comic strip)

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Location and other comments
Just scribbling for now. There is one strip where they live in "St. Petersburg", and another that states they do not live in Florida. It could possibly be St. Petersburg, Missouri, a fiction town used in the Tom Sawyer stories. In another strip the mom is reading The Sacramento Bee. — Soap — 16:43, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I have to admit I doubt that its really Tom Armstrong drawing all these strips. The drawing style seems to change consdiderably from one day to another lately. I'd send an email, also mentioning of course that I've been reading Marvin since I was about 6 years old, but I cant find an easy way to contact the author directly. — Soap — 06:47, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Aaaaand it would appear that as of April 2019, King Features/comicskingdom has turned everything into premium access, so we can no longer access any of the strips that are linked here. — Soap — 18:15, 25 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It is still possible to generate public links to individual strips (eg. the "first Christmas" strip) but since the comic strip citation format doesn't include a URL I'm not sure there even should be links to any strips. Unless I'm missing something? Tiggum (talk) 23:17, 25 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks ... Im not sure how you generated that URL, but it does work for me as of right now. Is that what the URL's appear like on the Premium access?   I can't fill in the [citation needed] sentences without knowing how to get there ... I dont have the paperbacks anymore and they were much older than what is posted here anyway.


 * Perhaps we should just remove those sentences. I get the impression this strip's continuity is comparable to that of Garfield, where the vast majority of things that happen in one strip are ignored in future strips, with just a few exceptions. For Garfield, those are Lyman moving away, Garfield learning to walk, Jon dating Liz... for Marvin, adopting a new baby, learning to walk, and learning to speak.


 * But most elements get ignored ... I mean, Im assuming youre familiar with the strip since you posted a quick reply, but if not .... I dont think we've seen the Purfect family more than once since their original appearance nine years ago. I think there were other mentions of one-off events in this article that got deleted .... I may have even been the one who deleted them.


 * I wish I could get Armstrong's opinion, but I never found any way to contact him and maybe he likes it that way. If the strip is not big on continuity, it might be better to just leave out details like whether they live in Indiana. — Soap — 15:41, 27 April 2019 (UTC)


 * My point is, you don't need a web link to cite a comic strip. Just use the comic strip citation template (as most of the references in this article do). You just include the date and it uniquely identifies the particular strip, which is enough as far as Wikipedia is concerned. Anyone who's interested can check newspaper archives or King Features publications.


 * And the URL I posted was generated from the "share" links under the comic, which I was able to access in the archive as I am a paid subscriber. If there are any particular strips you want me to look up in order to fill in missing citations I'm happy to do so, as long as you give me the date of the strip in question. But the share links themselves aren't required for the citation to be valid. Tiggum (talk) 16:45, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay thank you. Now that I look, there are only four 's, and I've said above that we might be better off without three of them since they give the impression of continuity that I think isn't really there. The fourth could be linked to any strip with Jordan in it, since I'd think any appearance of his would suffice to show that he's a friend. — Soap — 17:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Renaming The Article!
I am going to rename this article to Marvin (1982 comic strip) because the article says there was a comic strip named "Marvin" made in 1973. In Correct (talk) 12:52, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

artstyle
we cant know, but the bit about the art style changing is cited to a Usenet discussion from 2003, so I suspect it has nothing to do with the more recent changes in art style. I would think its more likely that Armstrong has hired other people to share the work of drawing the strip. Since we cant just assume that, it might even be better to leave that information out of the article altogether. — Soap — 12:03, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

my recent edits
though Ive been a fan of this strip since i was very young, i've actually stopped reading it in the past few years as i find the new GoComics site inconvenient to use. i have a few paperback Marvin books from the 1980s and some saved comics on my hard drive from when the site was hosted at marvincomics.com which i think was more accessible. I've removed some information from the article that was likely correct at the time it was added, but has gone out of date as the strip has changed. e.g. the baby characters can talk now thanks to SORAS or floating timeline or something related. I would add more information about the 1980s strips, which i suppose relatively people have seen in comparison to the recent ones, but honestly the early strips are mostly one-off puns with no continuity, so they are mostly of interest in regards to how the strip has changed over time. — Soap — 10:36, 17 July 2023 (UTC)