Embedding maps are a powerful way to explore large creative corpora, and the same method used for blog posts can reveal structure in something like Calvin and Hobbes.
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 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'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.
