A ghost story about a London family dying from a leak in their home’s gas light fixtures? No, it’s from the British humor magazine Punch in 1860, illustrating the horror of that new baking innovation, aerated bread.
Category: Cartooning
Crumb’s Better Half
The death of Christine (Perfect) McVie will get plenty of attention elsewhere. This is a place where you will read that Robert Crumb’s wife Aline has passed away.
As cartoonists, Robert and Aline were as close as it got to a “John and Yoko marriage.”
Aline’s passing comes not long after the death of Bill Griffith’s wife Diane Noomin. Friends with Aline, Diane was also an underground cartoonist.
Sparky at 100
There are plenty of online notices right now about Charles M. Schulz, who was born 100 years ago today. Terry Gross interviewed Schulz in 1990. Good Ol’ Monte gets a nod, as does cartoonist Jimmy Johnson’s then-wife Rheta, who wrote Good Grief!: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.
Crypto Grifto
In the wake of the revelations about the FTX debacle, Leo LaPorte goes on a justified tear against crypto currency.
Economist Paul Krugman, who sees crypto as a financial hideout for criminals, had some choice words recently.
But if the government finally moves in to regulate crypto firms, which would, among other things, prevent them from promising impossible-to-deliver returns, it’s hard to see what advantage these firms would have over ordinary banks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/crypto-banks-regulation-ftx.html
Speaking of Leo, this next video will start with a bit of Santa twin Scott Wilkinson, the Home Theater Geek, who I have followed for some years. After Scott, Leo has a caller. Keep listening until you realize who it is, or you reach the reveal.
Go-GoComics
GoComics is back online, along with Dilbert.com. So whatever it was that happened, it seemed to affect both sites.
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.