Category: Cartooning

Got Comics?

The GoComics service continues to be down. They posted this announcement on Facebook.

“Cybersecurity issues.” Hmm…

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/21/gocomics-down-due-to-cybersecurity-issues/

There has been speculation that it’s actually an attack against Dilbert.com, but as Scott Adams explained today, he has a Domain Name issue. GoComics.com resolves to its IP address, but it doesn’t reply to a ping request. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a nefarious entity out to get Adams and is behind both outages.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup dilbert.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
*** Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home can't find dilbert.com: Server failed

C:\WINDOWS\system32>nslookup gocomics.com
Server: Fios_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: gocomics.com
Address: 66.6.101.183

C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 66.6.101.183
Pinging 66.6.101.183 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 66.6.101.183:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)

Update: Comics Kingdom says they also had trouble staying online, but they’ve been okay most of the day.

Blankety Blanc

A 20-minute podcast about Mel Blanc’s recovery from a coma, following his near-fatal auto accident.

A one-hour documentary about Blanc I haven’t watched yet. Glancing through it I see Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Stan Freberg, and Terry Gilliam, so it’s definitely worth watching.

Blanc was known to stretch a yarn or two about himself by more than a yard. Mark Evanier is the go-to guy for the most balanced take on the most versatile voice actor who ever worked in classic cartoons and old-time radio.

https://www.newsfromme.com/?s=mel+blanc

And here are eleven-and-a-half hours of old radio shows, featuring Blanc. This’ll fill up the day!