"The Belfry" Internet Comic Archive Is Down

 

Around mid-October, the Internet comic archive known as "The Belfry" (https://new.belfrycomics.net/) went offline, clicks on the link showing only a blank page. There was no panic at first as it's gone down for a few days before.  Then people in a few comic forums began commenting it wasn't coming back, some wondering if it was related to a widespread incident online in which AI bots exposed weaknesses in a great many websites. 

The Belfry had been around since the later 1990s, and had links to hundreds of online comics, including inactive ones.  It was one of the largest online comic lists, if not the largest. 

 

The internet archive has a record of it you can access (here). 

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

The Annual Archive Reset

 

January First is the neatest the archival description on the front page appears. Normally it's a mix of the names of articles this month, plus the previous months in the year. But once the first article of the new year goes up, the last year "compacts." And so the section looks a little neater, just showing the first article, or first few articles, and the previous years. 

 

And we'll be quickly making it look messy again. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan