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title: Calvin and Hobbes index - 900602
date: "2005-12-27T12:00:00Z"
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description: 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.
keywords: [calvin and hobbes, comic strip index, transcription, searchable database, bill watterson, archiving]
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My [Calvin and Hobbes index](/calvin/) is current up to June 1990.

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## Comments

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- **Sathya** _28 Dec 2005 3:23 am_:
  Are you manually typing all these stuff ? Ammadiyov ... why dont u outsource such stuff :-)
- **S Anand** _28 Dec 2005 8:04 am_:
  Whom to? :-)
- **ritzkini** _28 Dec 2005 8:32 am_:
  !!! :O all by yourself !!?? crazy about C&H,eh ?
- **S Anand** _28 Dec 2005 10:55 am_:
  Completely. And I'm not the only one I know either!
- **vikram** _29 Dec 2005 12:03 am_:
  wow awesome man! i'm crazy about C&H too. great work man. :)
- **Sathya** _30 Dec 2005 3:25 am_:
  Now you know whom to outsource to ;-P
- **S Anand** _30 Dec 2005 10:43 am_:
  Hey, my index vanished!
- **S Anand** _30 Dec 2005 10:24 pm_:
  It's back.
- **Madhu** _5 Jan 2006 7:57 am_:
  Did you try the Calvin Hobbes entire collection for their 20th Anniversary. Its about 5k in India.
- **S Anand** _5 Jan 2006 6:00 pm_:
  Very tempting!
- **Anonymous** _9 Jan 2006 8:07 am_:
  i have an internet link to the complete c&h, let me know if you would like iy
- **S Anand** _10 Jan 2006 9:08 am_:
  Is it in text? I'd really like the complete Calvin in TEXT.
- **S Anand** _11 Jan 2006 11:16 am_:
  [Calvin theme subjects](http://members.shaw.ca/adamhighstead/subjects.html).
- **Madhu** _18 Jan 2006 9:53 am_:
  Let me help you with this. I will work on Calvin and Hobbes backwards from 31-12-95 and see where I can reach
- **S Anand** _18 Jan 2006 10:52 am_:
  Thanks, Madhu! That'll be wonderful. Someone else I know in Germany working backwards from 31-12-95. How about if you take it forward from 01-01-93?
- **JustSomebody** _3 Apr 2010 5:17 am_:
  Excuse me, but I think this strip search is broken. For some reason, it only has comics up to July 31, 1988. All the other comics aren't showing and the text is replaced with jibberish.
- **[S Anand](http://www.s-anand.net/)** _3 Apr 2010 8:02 am_:
  Yes -- thanks for pointing this out. Fixed it now.
- **[The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net](http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/)** _21 May 2010 12:02 pm_ _(pingback)_:
  [...] bit puzzled, but just added it to my list of eccentricities and carried on. I was halfway there in 2005, pushed further in 2006, and with some help, I managed to finally complete [...]

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