I curated a collection of silent Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. Having spent six years manually transcribing every strip in the series, I filtered the database to highlight these wordless, visually expressive moments.
I spent years hand-transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes strip to build a searchable text index. After a massive traffic spike from Reddit and MetaFilter, I received a copyright takedown notice and had to remove the archive.
I shared links to complete online archives of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips and compiled my own collection of typed quotes from the series. I also included a resource for humorous advice from Calvin's dad.
I’ve updated my Calvin and Hobbes index to cover strips through June 1990. I'm manually transcribing the comics into a searchable text database to help fans locate specific strips by their dialogue and themes.
I'm transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes comic strip into text to build a searchable archive. This lets me quickly find specific moments, from Tracer Bullet’s noir monologues to Dad’s creative explanations for how the world works.
I updated my Calvin and Hobbes index to include strips through June 1993. I have two-and-a-half years of the comic strip's history left to catalog to complete this comprehensive search resource.
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Vinu28 Apr 2010 11:25 pm:
Nice ! what did you do? Manually erase the text? Knowing you, i suspect there is some automation at work here :)
S Anand29 Apr 2010 7:17 am:
Oh, not quite. By 2006, I’d typed out all the Calvin and Hobbes (by hand, spending 6 years at it). This was just filtering all the strips that didn’t have any text on them :-)
Vinu30 Apr 2010 5:52 pm:
Ouch. That’s a lot of typing. Surprised you did not crowdsource it… Perhaps for the next assignment? Asterix comics anybody?
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