Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Search Engine for U.S Print Magazines About Comics

Via Paul Gravett:


WORK IN PROGRESS: SEARCH ENGINE FOR U.S. PRINT MAGAZINES ABOUT COMICS 


"Out of these titles - Amazing Heroes, Amazing World of DC Comics, The Comic Reader, Comics Feature, Comics Interview, The Comics Journal, Comics Scene, FOOM, Hero Illustrated, Marvel Age and Wizard Magazine - , Lars Ingebritsen announces: 'There’s now seven magazines indexed and available for searching at kwakk.info. Now, I previously said that the search interface on kwakk.info is geared towards research, and not reading, so it deliberately makes it difficult to download full magazines, and only gives you five pages at a time to read (for each search result). I still thinks that makes sense for The Comics Journal (where Fantagraphics is selling access) and Amazing Heroes (news possibly upcoming), but for the rest of these long-out-of-print magazines, that doesn’t seem to make much sense: The only way you can read these magazines is by shopping on eBay. So I’ve now added buttons to allow you to page through an issue (starting at where your search landed you, of course) for all of the non-Fanta mags. (This only works on the desktop version of the site).'"

https://kwakk.info/

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