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Post by erehweb »

Hmm - searching for one of my favorite Doonesbury cartoons about John Gotti matches "forgotting" and has no hits for "Gotti" itself. But straight Google points me to the one I was thinking about https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/10/29 even though it is just in the transcript - Gotti is mentioned by name on 10/27.

Do agree that comics search is something that could be greatly improved.

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Post by modeless »

erehweb wrote: post #2

Hmm - searching for one of my favorite Doonesbury cartoons about John Gotti matches "forgotting" and has no hits for "Gotti" itself. But straight Google points me to the one I was thinking about https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/10/29 even though it is just in the transcript - Gotti is mentioned by name on 10/27. Do agree that comics search is something that could be greatly improved.

I think this is for webcomics, not syndicated newspaper comics. Also I think it's not being updated anymore. At least, it couldn't find a recent Dinosaur Comics strip which is strange as that's Ryan North's webcomic.

As an aside, I can't believe Dinosaur Comics is still active. I looked it up and it started over 20 years ago in 2003. 4176 comic strips using the exact same artwork almost without exception.

What webcomics really need is not a search engine but an index of "most viewed" strips for each one. For longrunning webcomics the latest strips are often not really interesting for new readers, but there are a few (or more than a few) standout strips from the past that are really funny and could draw people in, only you can't easily find them just from the webcomic's home page.

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Post by niemenmaa »

modeless wrote: post #3
erehweb wrote: post #2

Hmm - searching for one of my favorite Doonesbury cartoons about John Gotti matches "forgotting" and has no hits for "Gotti" itself. But straight Google points me to the one I was thinking about https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/10/29 even though it is just in the transcript - Gotti is mentioned by name on 10/27. Do agree that comics search is something that could be greatly improved.

I think this is for webcomics, not syndicated newspaper comics. Also I think it's not being updated anymore. At least, it couldn't find a recent Dinosaur Comics strip which is strange as that's Ryan North's webcomic. As an aside, I can't believe Dinosaur Comics is still active. I looked it up and it started over 20 years ago in 2003. 4176 comic strips using the exact same artwork almost without exception. What webcom…

I have read at least a dozen strips of Dinosaur Comics, but only one at a time. (Mostly end up there through the link on xkcd)

Until I read your comment I have never noticed that the artwork of the strips is indeed exactly the same and only the text differs between strips. Wonderful stuff!

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Post by uldos »

As for someone who grew up in post-soviet 90ties with Disney comics and would like to get to know what the other kids (and adults) of the world were reading - what would you suggest me to search for?
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