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Comictose

Your path to Comic Nirvana!

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Comictose

Comictose is a Java based Web Scraper that downloads some of your favorite comics for you. Get all of them till date!

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. - Dr.Seuss

Dependencies

We’ve written the scrapers for you to use. Go ahead and Download the JARs from here and enjoy. If you prefer creating the JARs on your own, then use it with Maven or add the following libraries to your build path:

To run the JAR files, type java -jar <jar_name>.jar into the command line or the console. An active Internet connection is required while running the JARs.

List of Comics

  1. Aunty Acid - Aunty Acid is a Sassy senior that tells it straight. She is wickedly witty and wonderfully wise and with her husband Walt they deliver us their irreverent thoughts on everyday life.
  2. Big Nate - Big Nate follows the adventures and misadventures of Nate Wright, a spirited yet rebellious sixth-grader, along with his classmates and teachers.
  3. Calvin and Hobbes - Calvin and Hobbes follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger.
  4. Cyanide and Happiness - Cyanide and Happiness is a a cynical and often offensive Web-comic strip noted for its dark and irreverent humor and sometimes surrealistic approach.
  5. Dilbert - The strip is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring engineer Dilbert as the title character.
  6. Garfield - Published since 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield, Jon, his owner, and Jon's dog, Odie.
  7. Peanuts - Peanuts is one of the most popular comics that focuses on a miniature society of young children with philosophical , psychological and sociological overtones.
  8. SMBC - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is a webcomic featuring few recurring characters and has no set format with themes like atheism, God, superheroes, romance, dating, science, research, parenting and the meaning of life.
  9. XKCD - Perfectly described by its tagline - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
  10. ZenPencils - Zen Pencils focuses on adding to renowned quotes that have developed into visual metaphors to make insightful comics for the public.

Authors

Created by @manojkarthick and @avsmounica

Support or Contact

If you face any problems, feel free to raise an issue. For any other information, mailto: manojkarthick@ymail.com . Please let me know if you have any suggestions/improvements.