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Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Cult Of Skaro

As you may know, several of the Sunday strips from Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons are missing in color except for in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. As you own this, could you scan the sunday strips from July 1, 1990 to April 7, 1991 and add them to User:Wiki Library?

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05:27, November 14, 2012
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- Claws Bane
  
  Do you want me to scan them on my computer and upload the files or find the images on Google?
  
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  22:14, November 14, 2012
  
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- Cult Of Skaro
  
  Scan and upload, please.
  
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  22:27, November 14, 2012
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  Okay, but I have tons of homework so I'll try to do it over the weekend.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  You don't actually have to scan all of those. There are only 4 strips we need in color. I'll describe them:
  7/1/90: Calvin plays a game with Hobbes; toss a water balloon back and forth and step back until it bursts.
  8/19/90: Calvin lassoes his killer bike and ties it to a tree. Dad talks about the lock he got for Calvin.
  10/7/90: Spaceman Spiff finds a tiny civilization and a huge alien alter ego of Moe.
  10/14/90: Calvin makes Hobbes pose on a rock for a drawing.
  For optimum scan results, stick some black paper behind the scanned page to prevent the other pages from bleeding in. You'll still see some irregularities in the whites on the scan, but don't worry; I can fix those with editing. I can also straighten crooked strips. Just make sure to catch the whole strips, in focus.
  That's it for now, thanks in advance.
  
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  Edited by Serpinium 00:47, November 15, 2012
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  Okay, sounds good.
  
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  When I scanned, my book was too big so I to hold it and some of the other page was copied, but it's dark so maybe you can edit the size to make it vanish.
  
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  Yeah, that happened to me while scanning too. I guess I'll just have to see the scans themselves.
  
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  02:13, November 15, 2012
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  Whatever works for you guys.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  Well... Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you bothered but they're... not perfect.
  I've got a couple ideas from my own experience with scans. First, two out of the four are cut along the bottom row, and the ones that aren't look fine. So try to capture the whole strip like you did with the two good ones.
  As for the dark, unfocused panels near the spine, try lifting the cover and pressing down hard on the pages at the binding, bringing them closer to the scan glass and in good focus (the other side edge of the pages may bump up againt the borders of the glass; lift them up so they don't compress). It's a bit tough on the arms to hold it like that while it scans, but I did it dozens of times while scanning. If this cuts off other panels, no worry; I can edit the panels seamlessly back together with those from the other scans.
  Anything else can be done with editing. Once again, thanks, I appreciate your work.
  
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  All right, my scanner isn't too big so it would shade some of them. It's also hard since I don't want to break the spine, but if you could tell me the two to redo I'll gladly do them tomorrow.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  The spine won't break. It will bend, but not snap. I know the margins are uncomfortably thin, but I dealt wih the same thing myself.
  The files "Scan" and "C&A Color 3" are cut off. All have the spine problem.
  I'll be editing the scans in the meanwhile.
  
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- Cult Of Skaro
  
  reply to #12
  
  I'll be editing the scans in the meanwhile.
  
  How are your edits coming? I haven't done anything with the scans but extract a color image of the Doofus Ignoramus.
  
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  They've been straightened, brightened, and I removed what appeared to be hairlines. I'll resize them too.
  
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- Cult Of Skaro
  
  You appear to be rather good with photo editing.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  I'm not really doing anything fancy. The cutting up is done with MSpaint, I adjust the brightness with Windows Live Photo Gallery, and rotate with GIMP.
  
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- Cult Of Skaro
  
  Ah.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  So... Are the new scans done, Claws Bane? It's been a week now.
  
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  21:08, November 25, 2012
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  Sorry I've been away for Thanksgiving and didn't get the chance to copy them. I'll start it tomorrow.
  
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  22:33, November 26, 2012
  
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- Serpinium
  
  Ok I understand.
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  Just to inform you, I have delibertly trying to deliberately make the images in better quality, but I got rather small success, so I was wondering if you want the little better quality pics.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  Just send what you got.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  You are done with the scans, right?
  
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- Serpinium
  
  Anyway, I made some composites from them. Check them out:
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- Cult Of Skaro
  
  Based on your composites, I had an idea. Claws Bane, try scanning all the panels separately, and Serpinium can just put them together.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  That still makes the ones close to the spine hard to scan... but it ould be good for the ones at the bottom that are cut off.
  
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  Ugh. I wish I could walk into a yardsale and find a copy where all pages are ripped from the spine, but are themselves intact.
  
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- Serpinium
  
  Or we could just refrain from using snapshots of the B&W panels.
  
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- Claws Bane
  
  For some reason wikia isn't working for me. Whenever I try to edit a page, it turns white and I am inevitable to post or type anything, so I am continually trying to get it fixed and post the pics.
  
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  Email them to george.theodore.adams@gmail.com and gagne.yann@gmail.com.
  
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  I had that problem once with Wikia. I think it was my browser settings that had changed, or that the pop-up was being blocked. It worked when I switched browsers.
  
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Complete Calvin and Hobbes request

Serpinium

I see from your tower that you own the Complete.
I myself don't, and I'm just a dozen strips short of my plan for a complete database of strips. I would be very thankful if you could describe the individual strips for the following dates, in such a manner as to make them identifiable (no need to go into details):
April 17 through 22,
and May 15 through 20, both 1995.
It would be a great service to the wiki. Thank you, that will be all.

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  Yeah, no problem.
  April 17- Calvin is taking a bath with a lot of stuff and his mother says, "Let's draw the line at the umbrella."
  April 18- Calvin and Hobbes are walking through and wind storm and Calvin is describing how annoying it is and Hobbes asked why grip over it if he can't change it.
  April 19 and 20- Calvin receives a letter from his past self to his present self.
  April 21- Calvin tells his mom he has all sorts of sicknesses like a sore throat and ear ache and that he should stay home, but his mother suggests calling the doctor and Calvin says he feels all right.
  April 22- Calvin and Hobbes are looking at the sky and Calvin thinks there should be some red and grabs a kite to fill it in.
  May 15- Calvin blows a giant bubble that pops, and Calvin says he hoped for a huge explosion.
  May 16- Calvin blows another bubble that blows air at him and pops.
  May 17- Calvin tries to hit a baseball but the ball starts eating his bat and hides up in a tree.
  May 18- Calvin tosses a ball up and tries to ctach it, but the ball starts eating his glove and asks his Dad for two of them.
  May 19- Calvin tries to touch the ball with his bat but the ball starts eating it. Calvin's Dad grouches about Calvin leaving his stuff in the yard.
  May 20- Calvin's Dad asks why Calvin has been throwing rocks at his bat, but Calvin explained it was the ball, but is sent to his room.
  Ask me if you need anything else. Glad to contribute!
  
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- Serpinium
  
  That clears it up, thanks a lot!
  
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