Computer programmer Michael Yingling developed a search engine for archived Calvin & Hobbes comic strips. Here are some tips for using it:
Currently the search only looks for EXACT phrases (not case sensitive), so if you're looking for a comic with the words "balloon" and "airplane" you cannot enter them both, or it will search for "balloon airplane" together. Perhaps in the future I will fix this, but it's actually a lot more difficult than leaving it as-is.
There is one exception though! You can search for a DATE and it will find that specific comic, though it MUST be of the format MM/DD/YYYY. So 09/01/1986 will work, but "Sept 1st '86" and "9/1/86" wont - yet.
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Still using the greatest search engine
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php?phrase=aaaaaa
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php?phrase=max - The rare Uncle Max
http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php?phrase=spiff - Surely most of Spaceman Spiff
I do implore people to read the credits, as I don't feel like I did much of the heavy lifting; I just glued the pieces together.
That said, thanks for the recognition!
- Michael "Bing" Yingling
For quite a long time there was a website called Transmogrifier.org that already provided this service. AND it was not case sensitive.
Unfortunately it was taken down by "The Man." :( I cried about it and even sent the author a letter of regret and consolation. You can still visit the site and look at what was left of something awesome.
hmm...