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Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#61

Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…

I mean, to paraphrase the Big Lebowski, everyone is entitled to their opinion man. Banksy sort of rides the fine line of that deliniation as a legitimate critic of modern art phoney and yet himself is modern art and sold out.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#62
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…

There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…

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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#64
post #60

I actually ran into this problem recently, and this engine doesn’t solve it. The show and tell comic doesn’t come up when I search “boggle” or “boggle your minds”

I tested this and it seems to work for me for both! Maybe a temporary issue caused by HN hug of death? Links http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p... http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#65
Be interesting to know how the searchable text was gathered?

OCR'd the paper and/or web versions of each comic??

Also be interesting to know how much revenue this generates (via amazon linked purchases).

Doing others (e.g. Peanuts and Mad Magazine) in a similar fashion would sure make it easy to find the perfect cartoon for any occasion!

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#69

Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…

Watterson was always a bit of a cynic (I assume, still is), but I have always felt that he has a great heart.

One thing that he never did, was license his IP, so every "pissing Calvin" is a ripoff.

https://www.theonion.com/peeing-calvin-decals-now-recognized...

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#70
post #58

My favorite from recent times is https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/08/20

fwiw, this is actually originally from 1995: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17

Oh okay that makes a lot more sense. Thanks so much, I'd been wondering.
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