I quickly slapped together the oft-requested comic search engine:

http://www.stripcreator.com/search.php

I haven't bothered to write the paging yet, so it just limits you to 50 returns per search so that things don't get out of hand.

There's nothing too fancy about it, but it works for simple text queries. No exclusional searches or anything though. I looked into that stuff and it was going to require way more work and database usage than I can really justify.

Also: I'm watching to see how hard all this searching hits the database. It may prove too intensive and I may have to remove the function. We'll see. Just warning you guys. Live in fear!

I never thought I'd use this moronic word, but kewl!

Fact fans:
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" appears in only one comic.
Some guy called "calvin" has made strips about William Hague! I'm not the only one!
9 of the 13 comics mentioning the biscuit game are by me.
Osama bin Laden appears in 15 comics.
45 comics refer to hentai.
Three of Kevin Keegans Perm's comics mention me.
The first comic to mention "all your base" was this one:

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Only 50 comics contain "all your base are belong to us" and "sex"? I suppose it probably only returns up to 50 results.

18 replies to "Enema". Only Boorite has ever used that word in more than one strip

"Bin Laden" returns 39 strips. It appears we are no longer topical.

Nobody has mentioned Evil Knievel yet.

Kaufman has written 4 strips called "Blatantly Ripping Off Obijo's 'Mad'"

Dr Pedantic has only 5 strips , there are in excess of 50 mentioning "Pedantic"

Oh. And the reason Andy is the source of 3 comics (and probably will be more should i get a chance) is that hes something of a celebrity round here , and normally you have to take the piss out of celebrities behind their backs.

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Kaufman has written 4 strips called "Blatantly Ripping Off Obijo's 'Mad'"

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A thousand thank yous for implementing this, Brad. Don't take it away if it strains the database, just ask us for more money. Better yet, make it a subscriber-only feature, like deleting. Mwa ha.

Of course, now I can't remember any of the things I wanted to search for. I did discover that my long-held monopoly on references to Descartes was shattered a couple of months ago.

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature: I tried searching for my nick, and got 50+ results, including genuine instances, but also including occurences of phrases like "evil demon" and such. Evidently a space and an underscore were judged to be similar. I put a space on either side of my nick and tried again; that seemed to work better. Try it yourself if I'm not making any sense.

Someone had to do it.

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A thousand thank yous for implementing this, Brad. Don't take it away if it strains the database, just ask us for more money. Better yet, make it a subscriber-only feature, like deleting. Mwa ha.

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As long as I'm pushing my luck....

1. You should update the FAQ.

2. What about a feature that allows us to narrow the search by specifying which panels have which backgrounds or which characters are in which positions? I bet this would be easy with SQL, but I say that only because I don't know SQL myself.

But, again, thank you.

i was gonna suggest the character part of number 2 aswell, merely so i could look at all the comics made by non-forum-users with skagg in them

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As long as I'm pushing my luck....

1. You should update the FAQ.

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Could I just point out that the word "cornhole" first appeared in comic number 10, on the 7th January?

Funnily enough, it was used as someone's name, rather than a verb.

Hmm. I've heard of Cornholio as a name, but never just plain old "cornhole".

An interesting search function would be to see who has you on their list of favourite authors.

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Fact fans:
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" appears in only one comic.
Some guy called "calvin" has made strips about William Hague! I'm not the only one!
9 of the 13 comics mentioning the biscuit game are by me.
Osama bin Laden appears in 15 comics.
45 comics refer to hentai.
Three of Kevin Keegans Perm's comics mention me.

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Andy - you have far too much time on your hands. Why the hell aren't you down at Qudos pulling the new Freshers?!?!?

of strips that contain the word "habnem," 75% are by me.
of strips that contain "menbah," 67% are by crabby.

perhaps this belongs on a "believe it or bite me" thread (:

only 36 instances of "manrape." get crackin' people!

The search function allowed me to track down a comic that has long eluded my grasp: the first appearance of Tobor.

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...or was it?

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Of course, now I can't remember any of the things I wanted to search for. I did discover that my long-held monopoly on references to Descartes was shattered a couple of months ago.

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Can the search function find my socks?

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Andy - you have far too much time on your hands. Why the hell aren't you down at Qudos pulling the new Freshers?!?!?

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I did discover that my long-held monopoly on references to Descartes was shattered a couple of months ago.

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Though bunnerabb was the first person to use the word "pedantic" in a comic, on January 25th, Dr. Pedantic first appeared on March 16th in a comic written by wirthling.

Obsequious Oscar has made a mere two appearances -- well, two correctly-spelled appearances, at any rate.

Even Mr. Sticks-His-Dick-in-Your-Ass-While-You're-Looking-the-Other-Direction can beat that, with three.

The Non-Sequitur Donkey is only named once, though I seem to recall the last dialogue box of that strip being the inspiration for a Comic Contest.

We seem to owe a number of our recurring characters to Scyess. Shame he's been missing since July.

Apostrophes must be backslashed.

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Andy - you have far too much time on your hands. Why the hell aren't you down at Qudos pulling the new Freshers?!?!?

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Would you believe I've been there, done that?

No, you probably wouldn't.

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Apparently only 36 comics contain the word felch. And I penned 14 of them. Hmm...

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>>Nobody has mentioned Evil Knievel yet.

hmm, maybe that's because the first name is "Evel", not "Evil"

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only 36 instances of "manrape." get crackin' people!

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hmm, maybe that's because the first name is "Evel", not "Evil"

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I've found a small problem. When you make a search and one of our comics without a title comes up, you can't click on it from there because there's no link to click.

What I did:
I was messing around and typed in "meow". ObiJo's most recent comic came up, but there was no link to click because he had inserted a space as the title.

I hope that's clear enough to understand. Not that it matters anyway, just thought I'd bring it up and make everyone aware.

I don't know why people are forcing comic strips to be untitled in the first place. Writer's block? Novelty? Shy? I don't get it.

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I don't know why people are forcing comic strips to be untitled in the first place. Writer's block? Novelty? Shy? I don't get it.

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You should be able to work around this by replacing any comic titles which contain nothing but whitespace with a non-breaking space or two before printing them out as search results. Or, if you're lazy, just replace all whitespace characters in titles with an nbsp. Either method should work.

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You should be able to work around this by replacing any comic titles which contain nothing but whitespace with a non-breaking space or two before printing them out as search results. Or, if you're lazy, just replace all whitespace characters in titles with an nbsp. Either method should work.

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I tried searching for "fnord" and it came up empty. This is just too spooky.

On the lighter side, I see that up to this point, I remain the only one to have included "priapism" in a comic.

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On the lighter side, I see that up to this point, I remain the only one to have included "priapism" in a comic.

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The search function's disappeared!

Oh, wait. It only appears when you view comics. My bad, as they say on the other side of the pond.

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Oh, wait. It only appears when you view comics. My bad, as they say on the other side of the pond.

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Gabe Billings owns five of the twenty-five strips that include the word "waffle". ChrisIsAwk is a close second with four.